Datong, China
Datong turned out to be a surprisingly great 27 hours. When we arrived at the station we exited (as you’re forced to) and then entered the ticketing room. We were overjoyed to find that one of the ticketing lines catered to “foreign visitors.”After spending at least five full minutes at the window with the kind, English-speaking woman, I came away with four tickets – two standing-only tickets from Datong to Jinnin Nan and two hard-sleepers from Jinnin Nan to Erlian, China’s border city into Mongolia. There is no direct train from Datong to Erlian; there is a direct bus, but we’re trying, as much as we can afford, to travel by rail. With that hurdle gone, we still had to search out an affordable place to stay.
Train
tickets done, shelter done. All that was left was to explore Datong with the
little time we had.
The next day, Scott and I visited the Yungang Grottoes, a series of Buddist statues and art pieces which were built in the 400s. We were blown away. |
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