Datong Day Tour: Grottoes, Hanging Temple & Wooden Tower

Tour Description:

Guide and driver will meet you in your hotel lobby in the morning around 7:30am-8:00am.

We will then travel via private vehicle (car or van), around 40 minutes drive to Yungang Grottoes. In the morning to visit one of the largest stone caving art treasury - Yungang Grottoes, after the local lunch, further to visit another 2 famous sights seeing around Datong city - one is the China Architecture Wonder, Hanging Temple and the other is Yingxian Wooden Tower that is the highest and oldest wooden tower building in China.

The tour will finish at around 5:00pm, we will drop you off at your hotel in the end.

Attraction Description:

Yungang Grottoes - one of the largest stone caving art treasury famous both home and abroad, which was listed as a world heritage site in 2011. It is located at the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain, the grotto area was excavated along the mountain, imposingly stretching 1 kilometer with rich contents. Covering over 18,000 square meters engraving area, there are existing 45 main caves, 209 subsidiary caves, more than 1,100 niches, and more than 51,000 stone statues, among which the largest statue measures 17 meters and the smallest only 2 centimeters.

Hanging Temple - it is a 5th-century temple built into the side of a cliff, then move on to the Wooden Pagoda. Hanging Temple is not only the oldest and largest wooden Buddhist pagoda in existence in the world, but also as the only surviving temple combining all three Chinese traditional religions/philosophies: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Seeing it from the distance, you could find it hanging in the mid air miraculously, hence the name "Hanging Temple”. You really need courage to climb some narrow wooden stairs！

Yingxian Wooden Tower - located from 85 kilometers south of Datong City in western Yingxian County. It is a masterpiece of carpentry and the oldest surviving wooden pagoda in the world without any Having been built without a single nail or rivet. The tower was originally built in 1056 by Emperor Daozong of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125), so far around 1000 year old history. If you are a "enthusiast of ancient architecture", Yingxian Wooden Tower is the place you must see.