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Explore the city's recently restored
old town
but the top priority is the magnifi-
cent
Yungang Caves
outside town, one of China's most famous and colourful
collections of Buddhist statuary and a stupendous chunk of artistic heritage.
DATONG PINGYAO
Seven to eight hours
or
Six hours
Via Taiyuan, where you change bus.
Dim sum, Hong Kong (
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Pingyao (
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Come to a leisurely halt in this marvellous
old walled Shanxi town
where Ch-
ina's best collection of preserved, traditional homesteads creates a virtually im-
