YungangGrottoe HangingTemple Private Self-guided Tour by Car

Datong Tour

Your Own Way! Explore the Hanging Temple and Yungang Grottoes at your own pace !

Yungang Grottoes

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Be picked up from your Datong hotel or railway station or airport , relax in a chartered car , and explore the Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Temple on your own.

You will see the World Heritage Yungang Grottoes , with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Five Caves created by Tan Yao, with their strict unity of layout and design, constitute a classical masterpiece of the first peak of Chinese Buddhist art.

Afterwards, see the Hanging Temple .Built more than 1,500 years ago, this temple is notable not only for its location on a sheer precipice but also because as a Buddhist temple it also contains references to the other two of the three Chinese traditional philosophies or religions : Taoism, and Confucianism. The structure is kept in place with oak crossbeams fitted into holes chiseled into the cliffs. The main supportive structure is hidden inside the bedrock.The monastery is located in the small canyon basin, and the body of the building hangs from the middle of the cliff under the prominent summit, protecting the temple from rain erosion and sunlight bake.

Enjoy these two sites views of Datong , dropped off at your hotel or railway station or airport in Datong.

We may change the order of the two locations based on the location of your hotel ，station or airport. If you have any special requirements, please let us know. Thanks :)