I plan to travel to Shanxi from Hohhot for 3-4 days with my girlfriend. Now I want to go to Yungang Grottoes and Wang Jia Courtyard of Pingyao Ancient City to consult the route.

You can reach Yungang Grottoes by car from downtown. You can live directly in Datong city. It takes about half a day for Yungang Grottoes. For the remaining half a day, you can consider choosing the city wall, Shanhua Temple, Huayan Temple, Jiulong Wall and Drum Tower. The first day is over.

I wonder if I can take a bus directly from Datong to Pingyao. If it is not convenient to go directly by bus, I can consider changing trains in Taiyuan (by the way, I can buy a return ticket in advance). It takes about half a day by bus. After arriving in Pingyao, you can stay in a private inn in the city, which is cleaner. There are too many scenic spots in Pingyao. Buy a ticket and stroll around. Where are you going? More importantly, the city wall, Confucius Temple, City God Temple and so on.

On the last day, I took a long-distance bus from Pingyao to Lingshi, or directly carpooled with other travelers to the Wang family compound, and the rest of the time came back.