DaTong

We just returned home from a great 2 day trip to Da Tong. We went with six of Michael's classmates and one of his teachers. Chinese was the predominantly-used language, luckily many of the students were willing to translate.

DaTong is about a 6 hour train ride west of Beijing (and maybe 4 hours by car according to one of the signs we saw. We have reason to believe the sign may have been in error.)
The main tourist attractions (were actually outside of the city) were a hanging monastery and a series of Buddhist sculptures carved within a series of man-made caves.

We'll down load pictures soon and give everyone more details.