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Datong Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery 1-day from Beijing by Train 20% OFF
Beijing, Northern China, China
$479.20
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Overview
The Datong Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery day trip offers a seamless journey from Beijing via the newly built bullet train, taking just 2 hours each way. This private tour is perfect for those looking to enrich their travel experience with unique cultural insights and delicious local cuisine.
- 🚆 Enjoy round-trip bullet train tickets between Beijing and Datong for a comfortable journey.
- 🗣️ Benefit from an English-speaking tour guide who is highly knowledgeable about Shanxi history and culture.
- 🍜 Savor authentic Shanxi-style dishes and noodles for lunch, available only in this region.
- 🚗 Experience convenient transfers from your hotel to the train station and back, ensuring a hassle-free outing.
- 🌬️ Travel in an air-conditioned vehicle with a professional driver during your time in Datong.
- 🏛️ Visit the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Yungang Grottoes, featuring over 51,000 Buddha statues and stunning rock-cut architecture.
- ⛰️ Explore the Hengshan Hanging Temple, a unique 1,500-year-old cliffside temple combining Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
- 🕒 This full-day tour spans 12 hours, allowing ample time to experience both iconic sites.
- 📅 Note that during peak season (March–October), advance reservations are required due to high visitor numbers.
- ♿ Suitable for all physical fitness levels, making it accessible to everyone.
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Datong Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery 1-day from Beijing by Train
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 12 hours
Availability depends on seasonality and number of participants. Bookings can not be made for the same day. Please read our TnC’s.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
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- Chinese Shanxi-style dishes and noodles.
- Bullet train tickets between Beijing and Datong (round-trip)
- Beijing and Datong train station transfers (from hotel to station and back)
- Professional driver in Datong along with a nice car.
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- All Fees and Taxes
- English-speaking tour guide extremely knowledgeable about the history.
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Yungang GrottoesThe Yungang Grottoes are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture. It is one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites of China. They were built in the period between 460-525 AD during the Northern Wei Dynasty. The grottoes are an outstanding example of Chinese stone carvings from the 5th and 6th centuries. Altogether, the site is composed of 252 grottoes with more than 51,000 Buddha statues and statuettes. In 2001, the Grottoes named a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a "masterpiece of early Chinese Buddhist cave art... [and] ...represent the successful fusion of Buddhist religious symbolic art from south and central Asia with Chinese cultural traditions, starting in the 5th century CE under Imperial auspices."
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Hengshan Hanging Temple (Xuankong si)The Hanging Temple (Xuankong Temple) is a 1,500-year-old cliffside temple near Datong and one of the region’s most famous historical sites, alongside the Yungang Grottoes. Built into a sheer precipice, it is unique for combining Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism in one complex. The temple is supported by hidden wooden beams embedded in the rock and is naturally protected from weather by the surrounding cliff. Peak Season Note (March–October): Visitor numbers are high, and advance reservations (at least one week) are required and highly competitive. If on-site waiting time exceeds 1.5 hours, we recommend viewing the temple from below rather than entering.
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Datong Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery 1-day from Beijing by Train 20% OFF
Beijing, Northern China, China
$479.20
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!