Datong Tours

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.

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.

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.

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.

Discover the ancient carved Buddha statue of the Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple during this full-day private tour from Datong. The more than 1550-year old Yungang Grottoes are the most preserved out of the three in China. Enjoy an included lunch before heading to the Hanging Temple at Mount Hengshan, which hangs off the side of the cliff over the Jinxia Gorge. Learn about its precarious history before your return to your hotel.

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.

Marvel at the Hanging Monastery in Jinxia Gorge, visit the oldest wooden pagoda in China at Yingxian, and see the rock cut architecture of the Yungang Grottoes.

Take a private day tour to two top attractions in Datong: Yungang and Hengshan Hanging Temple. Tour guide, private vehicle, hotel pickup and drop-of, entrance fees and local lunch are all incusive

Experience some of Datong’s top historic attractions on this guided excursion. After a convenient hotel pickup, learn about this ancient capital city from an informative local guide and explore a cave system containing hundreds of grottoes and tens of thousands of stone sculptures. Enjoy a delicious complimentary lunch, then head to the Hanging Temple, a 1,500-year-old wooden monastery, and Nine Dragon Wall, built in the late Ming Dynasty.

Datong is a renown historical city for both Yungang Grottos and Hanging Monastery in Shanxi Province in Northern China, this private day tour will offer you the opportunity to explore both sites with a local guide by private vehicle from Datong city.

Embark on this full-day private guided tour from Datong to explore Wutaishan which is one of the Four Sacred Mountains in Chinese Buddhism. Admire Wutaishan's most important ceremonial sites, including Pusa Ding, Xiantong Temple, Tayuan Temple, and Nanshan Temple. Along the way you’ll gain in-depth knowledge about the Buddhism in China, get to know the history and stories about the temples, enjoy amazing Buddhist architecture which mixed with Han, Tibetan and Mongolia style. This private tour includes lunch, entrance fee, an English-speaking guide and transport by private vehicle. Tour can start from your Datong hotel's lobby or Datong railway station.

Maximize your time in the remarkable city of Datong on a comprehensive 2-day private tour to major attractions and historical landmarks. Alongside an expert guide, explore three spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Yungang Grottoes, Hanging Temple and Ying Xian Wooden Pagoda. Besides, you will also visit the Nine Dragon Screen and Datong City Wall. Gain valuable insight into the rich history of the city. This private tour including English speaking tour guide, entrance fee, lunches, travel by private vehicle. Tour start from your Datong hotel or Datong Railway Station.

Have a full day private tour to explore the historical relics and Chinese architecture in Datong, know more about the top attractions from an expert local tour guide, visit the peculiar wood-structured Hanging Monastery on the cliff, and see the oldest and highest wooden structure in China - Yingxian County Wooden Pagoda.

Embark on this private guided tour from Datong to explore three spectacular sites: Hanging Temple, Yungang Grottoes and Ying Xian Wooden Pagoda. Follow your personal tour guide to admire the 1400 years Hanging Temple, discover the architectural gems-Ying Xian Wooden Pagoda and be amazed by Yungang Grottoes which represent the successful fusion of Buddhist religious symbolic art from south and central Asian with Chinese cultural traditions. This private tour includes lunch, entrance fee, an English-speaking guide and transport by private vehicle. Tour can start from your Datong hotel's lobby or Datong railway station.

We provides convenient private transfer service between Datong and your hotel in the downtown of Pingyao. We offer many choices of vehicles and all our drivers are professional and know every corners of this area quite well. All the clean, tidy air-con vehicles we use are licensed with insurance. The vehicles will be just for you, your family or your group. Qiao Family Courtyard is located only approximately 40km northeast of Pingyao Ancient Town and 54km southwest of Taiyuan, the compound is fortified behind a 10m high wall with battlements. It is not exaggerated that you will be go deeply into the once most prosperous merchant family by visiting Qiao Family Courtyard on your way to Pingyao Ancient Town. It was the private residential house of Qiao Zhiyong, who was the most famous member of the powerful trading family with significant commercial influence even beyond Shanxi, as they were in the trade sector, a nationwide business.

The Great Wall of China and Longqing Gorge are two top attractions outside Beijing. On this private tour, begin with pickup at your Datong hotel and travel by bullet train to Beijing and explore both sites in one day. Visit the Badaling Great Wall with your cable car ticket included, and take to the waters of the Longqing Gorge for spectacular countryside views. After the tour, you can choose to end your tour in Beijing or travel back to Datong. This private tour including train ticket, entrance fee, cable car round trip, lunch, English speaking tour guide and you will travel by private vehicle.

- This trip does not include any forced stops in tourist shops - No hidden costs: fuel, tolls, parking costs are included in the  quote - Private guide service, lunch, entrance tickets, private transport and pick-up  hotel charges are included - It is possible to have a French or English speaking guide service  let's choose your option

Have a Datong trip with us to explore Chinese further history! Travel easy with our private tour tailor made for you! See the 1400-year-old Hengshan Hanging Temple, built in the side of a cliff! Visit the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site!

This private day tour leads you to the amazing sightseeing of the  famous Yungang Grottos and Hanging Temple in Datong.  Accompany by your professional private guide to learn the local history. Includes private guide, Enjoy tasty local cuisines and transportation.

Visit highlights of Shanxi including the Datong, Mount Wutai and Pingyao with this 5 days private tour from Datong. You will be picked up from Your Datong hotel/train station and dropped off at the Pingyao hotel/train station.

Sculpted mainly from tamped earth, the unspoiled Great Wall around Datong gives a very different perspective from the stone walls close to Beijing. Discover this UNESCO World Heritage Site with a private guide on a door-to-door day trip from Datong. First, visit De Sheng Bao, a 16th-century fortress and garrison town; then, hike along a section of the wall lined with beacons and guard towers from Zhenchuankou.

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.

Rent a car is more flexible than the fixed route tour, more flexible time control, you can have your own itinerary. Mult Types of vehicles Travel advisor online support in English, French, Spanish Each car/van has limits of number of passengers. Please also take your luggage pieces and size into consideration when choosing the car/van type.

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.