Some places impress you because they are famous. Others stay with you because they reset your sense of scale. The Yungang Grottoes [YOON-gahng] (云冈石窟, a major Buddhist cave complex in northern China), just outside Datong [dah-TONG] (大同, a historic city in northern Shanxi) in Shanxi Province [shahn-SHEE] (the inland province west of Beijing), belong to...Read More
