Comments on: Touring Beijing in Winter Part 5: Datong – Hanging Monastery http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/ There's something for everyone Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Claudine http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-604039 Claudine Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:26:28 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-604039 Datong taxi prices differ depending on where you want to go. We only opted for hanging monastery and grottoes. They could offer you to go to the Great Wall in that area, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, Mt. Hengshan and Pingyao. We didn't go to the Great Wall as we're going to do that in Beijing. Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is not worth the travel as the pagoda is falling apart and the entrance fee is expensive. Mt. Hengshan is good for a day trip but if you take the cable car, you would have to pay extra to enter the temple grounds. I didn't get to go to Pingyao but it's an old walled city which was used to film Raise the Red Lantern. In the city of Datong, there's a 10 dragon screen similar to the one inside the Forbidden City and the drum tower in the middle of the city which you can't get in. For Chengde, you can check my blog post about it. http://clompy.com/beijing/2008/01/chengde-hebei/ Datong taxi prices differ depending on where you want to go. We only opted for hanging monastery and grottoes. They could offer you to go to the Great Wall in that area, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, Mt. Hengshan and Pingyao.

We didn’t go to the Great Wall as we’re going to do that in Beijing. Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is not worth the travel as the pagoda is falling apart and the entrance fee is expensive. Mt. Hengshan is good for a day trip but if you take the cable car, you would have to pay extra to enter the temple grounds. I didn’t get to go to Pingyao but it’s an old walled city which was used to film Raise the Red Lantern.

In the city of Datong, there’s a 10 dragon screen similar to the one inside the Forbidden City and the drum tower in the middle of the city which you can’t get in.

For Chengde, you can check my blog post about it.
http://clompy.com/beijing/2008/01/chengde-hebei/

]]> By: Calvin http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-603503 Calvin Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:47:40 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-603503 there are taxis at the train station and my sister haggled for us to rent one to visit hanging monastery and the grottoes. Datong and Chengde yes to both if you have time!! Make Datong a priority though. there are taxis at the train station and my sister haggled for us to rent one to visit hanging monastery and the grottoes.

Datong and Chengde yes to both if you have time!! Make Datong a priority though.

]]> By: Marcos http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-602959 Marcos Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:11:34 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-602959 hi.. may i know how u manage to rent a car with driver.. is it taxi or u can get it at the train station or need booking arrangement before u arrive? is it worth to visit Datong or Chengde?. tq hi.. may i know how u manage to rent a car with driver.. is it taxi or u can get it at the train station or need booking arrangement before u arrive?

is it worth to visit Datong or Chengde?.

tq

]]> By: Mae Dean http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-22170 Mae Dean Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:46:04 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-22170 Thank you for the info on the Wiki photo. I will eventually put it at the top of the blog post. It is just what I wanted. http://wendellmaedeantravelblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/hanging-temple.html Thank you for the info on the Wiki photo. I will eventually put it at the top of the blog post. It is just what I wanted.
http://wendellmaedeantravelblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/hanging-temple.html

]]> By: Calvin http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-22163 Calvin Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:20:21 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-22163 Here you go. it's from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HangingMonasterySculptures.jpg" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a>. Here you go. it’s from wikipedia.

]]> By: Mae Dean http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-22122 Mae Dean Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:19:07 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-22122 I saw your Hall of Saints photo on your blog taken inside The Hanging Temple, what I'm hoping to learn though is an image Sakyamuni, Confucius and Laotzu close together and in the same image inside this Monestery. Can you point me to such an image? I saw your Hall of Saints photo on your blog taken inside The Hanging Temple, what I’m hoping to learn though is an image Sakyamuni, Confucius and Laotzu close together and in the same image inside this Monestery. Can you point me to such an image?

]]> By: dyosa http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/comment-page-1/#comment-19947 dyosa Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:06:07 +0000 http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/12/touring-beijing-in-winter-part-5-datong-hanging-monastery/#comment-19947 How I'd love to see the Hanging Monastery. Amazing architecture. Swerte nyo naman, walang tourists. Places such as these are always lovely to capture when there weren't too many people. How I’d love to see the Hanging Monastery. Amazing architecture. Swerte nyo naman, walang tourists. Places such as these are always lovely to capture when there weren’t too many people.

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