Tour Itinerary : Day 01:
Beijing - Datong by overnight train N205
We will pick you up from your hotel in Beijing. Then escorted to Beijing West train station. Our tour guide will help you to your train carriage. Take overnight train to Datong at 23:29.
Day 02:
Datong
Arrival in Datong at 07:00 AM on the morning. Our local tour guide will meet you at the entrance of your train carriage. Then transferred to your hotel-datong Hotel. After Breakfast, first visit the Yungang Grottoes. Then move to the Huayan Monastery. lastly visit Shanhua Monastery and the Nine Dragon Screen. After the tour, transferred back to your hotel--Datong Hotel.( B L )
Day 03:
Datong
Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel at 09:00 AM.
Full day excursion to Sakyamuni Wooden Pagoda at Fuoguang Temple in Yingxian County (Yingxian Wooden Pagoda). Our tour guide will escort you to the train station and then to your train carriage. Take overnight soft sleeper train back to Beijing at 22:00. (B L )
Day 4:
Datong-Beijing
Arrival in Beijing West Railway Station at 06:35 AM. Our tour guide will meet you at the entrance of your train carriage. Then transferred back to your hotel in Beijing
Tour Cost :
1 person 560 USD
2-5 persons:350 USD P/P
6-9: persons 240 USD P/P
10 persons Up:205 USD P/P
Single room supplement : 20 USD
Price includes :
1. Round-trip train tickets.
2. Meals as listed B=Breakfast L=lunch D=dinner
3. English speaking guide, admission fees
4. Hotel accommodation ( Two Sharing )
Price excludes :
1. International air-tickets
2. Personal expenses: the items of personal nature such as drinks, laundry, tips to guides or drivers, FAX, telephone, excess baggage charges.
3. Insurance coverage of personal loss, illness or damages incurred during your trip.
Note :
1) Payment: Payment in advance, or you may pay to our tour guide or come to our office in person for the payment in Beijing.
2) The above private escorted tour is customized for you, your family or your friends exclusively. No other travelers will join in your group.
鈼咥mong the unsung wonders of China's history-soaked heritage are the 1,500-year-old Buddhist grottoes of Datong ---an eight-hour train journey from Beijing---in Shanxi Province.
In a valley at Yungang, some 10 miles west of Datong and easily reached by taxi or public bus, more than 50 recesses have been dug into the hills and filled with Buddhist statues of various sizes and shapes, 51,000 altogether.
From the 56-foot Seated Buddha to tiny figures just a few centimeters tall, every wall and archway is crammed with carvings, including serial-type representations of scenes from Buddhist mythology and the lives of famous monks.
Datong has several other tourist attractions ?such as the 600-year-old Nine-Dragon Screen made of glazed tiles, the Huayan Monastery with the largest wooden shrine hall in China, and the Shanhua Monastery, intact since 713.
