The city of Datong is a big ugly dirty hole of coal dust, but there are two cool sights to see nearby so we stopped for a night, and did a tour the next day. We saw the hanging monastery (which was originally occupied by buddhist monks, then later by the other two big 'religions' of china -taoism and confucianism) and the Yungang caves (dug-out caves and buddhist carvings in sandstone). Both were really impressive and unlike anything we've seen so far.
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