Mount Hengshan and Xuankong Temple: A Practical Guide from Datong
How Mount Hengshan and Xuankong Temple fit together, how to plan a visit from Datong, and what to know about trails, cable cars, timing and nearby sites.
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Datong in Two Days: Temples, Grottoes and the Old City by Car
A two-day drive from Datong: Liao-Jin temples inside the Ming wall, the Yungang caves, Yingxian's wooden pagoda and the Hanging Monastery, with notes on timing, tickets and reconstruction.
Bronze, Bells and the Book of Songs at Datong Museum
A guide to Datong Museum's exhibition of bronze vessels named in the Book of Songs, with notes on the Buddhist and Daoist sculpture galleries in the same building.