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Best of SmallTravelGuides on Social Networks. Here it comes the 16th issue of periodical review of STG posts on Social Media. In the relevant week of travel I’ve been in China, travelling from Datong to Xian with a stop in Pingyao. For this week you will find 7 Instagram posts, most popular tweet and 2 …
How to get to the Hanging Temple. Beside the Yungang Grottos there is at least anothre important site to visit in this area: the Hanging temple located about 70 kilometres south of Datong. Due to the distance is not possible to use an urban bus to reach it. The easy way would be take one …
Revival of an old town. Datong is a town with an important past. It was a capital twice, during Wei and Jin dynasties but in the history of the town will also remain the mayor that in 2008 decided to revive that past building from scratch a new ‘old town’. In one or two centuries …
Buddhas in the caves. There are about 53 caves in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Yungang Grottoes, close to the town of Datong, in China. These caves host statues of Buddha and some of them still keeps the original colours after many centuries. The tallest statue is more than 15 meters tall but the …
Best of SmallTravelGuides on Social Networks. Here it comes the 15th issue of periodical review of STG posts on Social Media. In the relevant week of travel I’ve been in China, mostly in Beijing including Great Wall of China and then I headed to Tianjin and then Datong. For this week you will find 7 …
China with an Indian influence. Yungang Grottoes site is one of the most beautiful archaeological site in China hosting many statues of Buddha carved out in the Wuzhou Mountain. The oldest statues date back to 450 A.D. and many of them were influenced by the Greco-Buddhist art flourished in Gandara area, nowadays belonging to Pakistan. …