Datong travel guide is the most complete and best route.

The most comprehensive and best routes of Datong travel strategy are Yungang Grottoes Tour, Beiyue Hengshan Tour and Ancient Capital City Tour.

1, Yungang Grottoes Tour

The main attractions of this route are Yungang Grottoes-Jiaoshan Temple-Kannonji-Lingyan Temple. Gang Grottoes, formerly known as Lingyan Temple and Poetry Buddha Temple. Located in the southern foot of Wuzhou Mountain in the western suburb of Datong City, Shanxi Province, it is located on the northern bank of Wuzhou River. The highest point of Wuzhou Mountain is called Yungang, hence the name Yungang Grottoes. The rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty advocated Buddhism and built temples and caves extensively.

2. A trip to Hengshan Mountain in Beiyue

The main attractions of this route are: Hengshan-Hangkong Temple-Longpengyu-Donghutou-Qianfo Ridge-Hunyuan Ancient County (Ai 'anji, Hunyuan Zhou Ya, Majiayuan, Li Yumei Tomb)-Lulu Temple-Shen Xi National Wetland Park-Huang Qi Cultural Park. The main peak area of Mount Hengshan, that is, Mount Hengshan in a narrow sense, that is, the so-called "Mount Hengshan in Beiyue", is mainly composed of two opposite peaks, Tianfengling and Cuipingshan. Moyukou, on the west side of the main peak, stands on the west cliff, and the stream is gurgling.

3. A trip to the ancient capital city

The main attractions of this route include Huayan Temple-Chunyang Palace-Shanhua Temple-Confucian Temple-Ancient City Wall-Jiulongbi-Daiwangfu-Huokeji-Tang Ming Park.

Introduction to the architectural model of Huayan Temple;

The plane of the wooden tower is square, with a total height of 43.5 meters, including the tower gate. It is a three-story four-eaves pure wood tenon-mortise structure, with three rooms wide and deep on each floor, all built according to Liao and Jin architectural techniques. The tower is stacked with Sakyamuni, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Jiao Jiao Bodhisattva carved with sandalwood. Huayan Pagoda is the second largest square wooden pagoda with mortise and tenon structure in China after Yingxian Wooden Pagoda.

The bottom of the tower covers an area of nearly 500 square meters and is made of 65,438+000 tons of pure copper. Caisson, tower, mural, floor, escalator, etc. In the underground palace, there are many kinds of copper crafts such as carving, forging, branding and line engraving. When completed, it is the largest pure copper underground palace in China. Four main buddhas and 448 small sacrificial buddhas are enshrined on the four walls of the Thousand-Buddha Underground Palace, and there are more than 1000 relief Buddha statues on the walls and towers.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yungang Grottoes

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hengshan