We woke up very early this morning, 4:30! Not sure why, maybe we were excited about our day today. It was another amazing travel day, we saw fascinating, incredible and beautiful historic sights today with our guide for the day, Nancy. She was a great guide; very friendly, knowledgeable and spoke excellent English. She and her driver picked us up at 8:00am on the dot, and we headed out of town to our first stop, the Hanging Monastery and Temple. It's about...

Dusty Datong Today was a travel day for us, we flew this morning from Taiyuan to Datong. Our flight was late leaving, but it was a short one on a very small jet--only 50 minutes. As we were descending into Datong we we shocked by how bad the air quality is here. I think it's mostly dust, but I'm sure some of it is smog, as the Datong's main economy is coal mining. We were also very surprised by the size of the airport--it's tiny! They actually locked the...