Yungang Grottoes (Yungang Shiku) Tours and Activities
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The Yungang Grottoes (Yungang Shiku) are ancient Chinese Buddhist grottoes that reside in the north cliff of Wuzhou Mountain near the city of Datong in Shanxi Province. Listed as a World Heritage Site in 2001, the Yungang Grottoes are a brilliant display of Buddhist rock-cut architecture dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries.
The Yungang caves are divided into east, middle, and western sections. Pagodas dominate the eastern parts, while the west comprises small to medium sized caves. The caves in the middle section feature front and back chambers with Buddha statues at their center. In total, the complex comprises 252 grottoes with more than 51,000 stone Buddha statues.
Nanjiao, Datong, Shanxi, China, 37007
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Datong Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Temple Self-Guide Day Trip from Beijing
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Depart on early morning around 5am, and head up to Datong from your city hotel in Beijing ( 5-hour driving time). Accompany by your friendly private English driver to see famous Datong Yungang Grottoes, Hanging Temple or other city attractions within 5-hour time before returning back to Beijing downtown. Door to door hotel pickup and drop-off service, toll, gas and parking fee are all inclusive.
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$350.00
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Private Datong Day Tour Arranged by Local Tour Guide Nancy
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Enjoy the undivided attention of your guide on a private day tour of Datong. Start at your hotel, then travel comfortably to each location by private transportation. Rather than skim the surface like a typical large group tour, you get engaging guided visits at Yungang Grottoes, Hanging Temple, and more. Ask questions, get suggestions, and avoid language barrier issues with the help of your private guide.
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$45.00
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$45.00
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Datong Classic Day Tour
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History buffs can save hours of time and effort compared to navigating Chinese-language public transport with this efficient Datong private transfer service. Check off the two key cultural highlights of Datong—the 1400-year-old Yungang Grottoes and Hengshan Hanging Temple—in just one day with the help of a local guide. Please note: tour excludes entrance fees.
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Private Day Trip to Datong from Beijing with English Speaking Driver
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Beijing is teeming with standout sights, but areas outside the city are filled with hidden must-see attractions. Cover locations outside standard tourist itineraries during this enriching day trip to Datong, with round-trip transportation from your Beijing hotel. Visit the Hanging Monastery, one of China’s most daring architectural feats, and explore the UNESCO-listed Yungang Grottoes, home to over 51,000 Buddha statues. You’ll also munch on savory sliced noodles—a local specialty.
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$348.00
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Private 2-Day Datong from Beijing with Yungang Grottoes
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Escape the bustle of Beijing in favor of rural Datong on a private 2-day tour of the Yungang Grottoes and Hengshan Hanging Temple (Xuankong si). With a private guide, you’ll visit Datong highlights such as the Nine Dragon Screen at the Palace Museum, Ying Xian Wooden Pagoda, and discover the 50,000-plus Buddhist statues within the Yungang Grottoes. Plus, you’ll visit the cliff-side Hengshan Hanging Temple (Xuankong si). Accommodation is not included.
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$498.00
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Private 2-Day Tour of Datong
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See the highlights of Datong on a 2-day tour that includes visits to the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Yungang Grottos and Hanging Temple. You’ll also explore the Datong Museum, Nine Dragon Screen, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, and a village with cave dwellings. Includes private guide and driver, lunches, and hotel pickup and drop-off in Datong.
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Bullet Train To Datong Yungang Grottoes from Beijing Private Day Tour
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Visit one of northern China’s historical wonders on this private 12-hour Yungang Grottoes trip from Beijing. Travel to this UNESCO-listed treasure-trove of early Buddhist cave art near Datong, and enjoy ample time to tour its 252 grottoes of thousands of Buddhist statues. See highlights including the towering Buddha cliff carving, and smaller caverns and niches filled with murals and figurines, many from the 5th century. Lunch, private transport, and central hotel pickup and drop-off included.
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$410.00
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Private Transfer Service: 2-Day Datong from Beijing
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Explore the historic city of Datong and its surrounds without any mandatory factory stops or shopping excursions on this private, customizable two-day tour. Drive from Beijing to Datong with your private driver and visit a range of ancient landmarks and monuments, including the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple. Choose between a self-guided tour and a tour package with your own private guide to show you around and explain the history and culture of Shanxi province in greater detail.
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$368.00
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Private Tour: Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery From Datong
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Take time out from Datong to see two of north China’s historical highlights on this private 8-hour Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery tour. View the 5th-century Yungyang Grottoes, a series of rock-cut caves filled with Buddha statues. Plus, check out the Hanging Monastery, whose ornate medieval temples are suspended from a cliff face. Learn about both sites from a private guide on a tour that includes a Chinese lunch, entrance fees, and private transport.
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$160.00
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$160.00
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Private Day Trip to Yungang Grottoes and Hengshan Hanging Temple from Datong
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Visit two top attractions of Datong — Hanging Temple and the UNESCO-listed Yungang Grottoes — on a privately guided day trip. Your personalized itinerary provides time to explore one of China's largest grottoes as well as the 5th-century temple built into Hengshan mountain cliff. Lunch and round-trip minivan transport are included.
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$196.00
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One Day Datong Yungang Grottoes,Hanging Temple Tour with English speaking driver
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The Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple near Mount Heng are both grand highlights of Shaanxi province. Both are also some distance away from the closest city, Datong, and are stressful to get to if you don’t know the roads. Ditch the maps and leave the rental car in the garage for the day with this full-day tour to both sites, complete with a private driver. No crowded buses on this tour: just travel direct to the ancient Buddhist temples at Yungang and the precipitous cliffside Hanging Temple.
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$313.34
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Yungang Grottoes and Yingxian Wooden Pagoda including Shanxi Style Lunch
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Explore some of Datong’s cultural relics including the Buddhist Yungang Grottoes and the millenary Yingxian Wooden Pagoda also called Pagoda of Fogong Temple. During this tour you will also sample some traditional delicacies of the province in special forms made with flour.
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$201.00
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Private Day Tour to Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Temple with Lunch from Datong
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If you are looking for the highlights and World Cultural Heritage sites，you should come to see these two things: one is Hanging Temple, built along the cliff around 1,500 years ago,nowadays is famous for its grandeur; the other is Yungang Caves,carved1,500 years ago with 45 caves and over 51,000 statues preserved till now. This tour is leaded by an experienced tour guide who has been explaining these two places for over 10 years
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$218.00
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Private 2-Day Datong Tour
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See main sites of Datong from this package private 2-day tour, experience the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Yungang Grottoes, the largest Nine Dragon Screen in China. And visit the impressive Hanging Monastery built 1500 years ago and Wooden Pagoda in Ying County, private guide, driver, entrance fees of sites and hotel pickup and drop-off are included.
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$494.00
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3-Day Private tour: From Pingyao to Datong
Visit highlights of Shanxi including Pingyao and Datong with this 3 days private tour from Pingyao.
You will be picked up at Pingyao hotel/train station and dropped off Datong hotel/Train station.
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$632.40
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Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery Private Tour From Datong
Have a private full day tour to visit the historical relics in Datong, know more about the top attractions from an expert local tour guide, visit one of the four most famous grottoes in China - Yungang Grottoes, and explore the peculiar wood-structured Hanging Monastery on the cliff at the foot of Mt. Hengshan.
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$253.85
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$253.85
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Full-Day Datong Cultural Highlights Private Tour with Lunch
- No hidden fees, no commission-based shopping stops just memorable
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- Enjoy private transfer and guiding to Datong’s cultural highlights
- No cramming into a car that’s too small: travel in a vehicle that suits your group
- Private transport includes pick-up from, and return to your Datong hotel
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$208.00
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$208.00
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5-Day Private Tour to Datong,Pingyao and Xi'an by Bullet Train
Visit highlights of China including the Datong,Pingyao and Xi'an by Bullet Train with this 5 days private tour from Datong.
You will be picked up from Datong hotel and dropped off at Xi'an hotel.
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$1,061.54
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Private Day Trip to Datong from Beijing by Plane Including Hanging Temple and Yungang Grottoes
Visit the Hanging Temple and the Yungang Grottoes on a full-day trip to Datong from Beijing that includes round-trip flights, English speaking tour guide, private vehicle, all entrance fee and lunch. Explore one of the largest stone caving art treasury at Yungang Grottoes, eat lunch at a local restaurant, then experience the architectural wonder - Hanging Temple. This private tour is a cost-effective way to make the most of your time in China, with an knowledgable guide to help bring the ancient world to life.
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$568.00
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$568.00
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2-Day Private Tour to Datong from Beijing by Bullet Train
Visit highlights of Datong including Yungang Grottoes, Huayan Monastery, Nine-Dragon Wall, Ancient City Wall, Hanging Monastery and Yingxian Wooden Pagoda with this 2 days private tour from Beijing by bullet train.
You will be picked up and dropped off from your Beijing hotel.
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$560.00
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$560.00
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Private Tour to Yungang Grottoes, Hanging Temple and Wooden Pagoda from Datong
Seeing Datong’s three signature religious sights involves around 171 miles (276 kilometers) of driving. Spread out in comfort as you travel on this door-to-door private tour, with a personal guide to unfurl the region’s rich history. Explore the 6th-century Yungang Grottoes and Hengshan Hanging Temple, visit the 1,000-year-old Ying Xian Wooden Pagoda, and enjoy an authentic Chinese lunch.
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$240.00
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$240.00
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1-Day Datong tour from Beijing by Round-way Bullet Train
Visit highlights of Datong including Yungang Grottoes and Hanging Monastery with private day tour from Beijing by bullet train.
You will be picked up and dropped off from your Beijing hotel.
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$378.67
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$378.67
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Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
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2-Day Beijing to DaTong see YunGang Cave, Hanging Temple Round Trip Amazing Tour
Spend two full days from Beijing to DaTong see Yungang caves, Hanging Temple both with Heng shan mountain acommponied with a private guide and drvier from beijing, stress free for the touring, you guide will arrange all for you. This tour is good for natural carving works lovers and photographers. Also this is an all inclusive tour, round trip transfer from beijing to Datong, gudie, sights tickets, two lunches are all included.
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$767.45
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Dunhuang Private Round Trip Transfer to Jiayuguan and Xuanbi Great Wall
Enjoy door-to-door service in a comfortable private vehicle operated by a courteous friendly driver from your Dunhuang city hotel to Jiayuguan Fortress and Xuanbi Great Wall. You will have the maximum freedom to enjoy the attraction at your own pace. Your driver will take you to the main entrance, assistant you for the entrance fee, and waiting for you at the parking lot, after your self-guided tour finished, your driver will transfer you back to your hotel or accommodation in Dunhuang, you also can choose to have an English speaking tour guide who will accompany you at the attraction when make booking.
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$100.00
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