Well we had a ticket to leave Beijing on an over night train. We had booked a "hard sleeper" which means its some sort of "bed" to sleep on. At the train station it became a rat-race to get on the train! My suitcase on wheels was a little inconvenient as we ran to to the train, but my back felt great! We found our carriage and we boarded! We thought we were in the right place, but we were told to move! The beds were on stacks of three with 6 in each row....packed in! We found out that the rat race was to get a seat in the cheapest carriage, if you didn't get a seat you had to stand for the duration of the trip. We finally finally found our right spot and we settled in!
We arrived in Datong! It was freezing! I had many many layers on! With friends advise we made our way to the famous caves. They were Buddhist caves carved in 590AD! They were absolutely amazing!!! And it only took an over night train, a bus, and a motorbike to get there!!!
To burn the rest of our time in Datong we went to an internet cafe to chill out and sleep! Our train out of Datong was at 11pm. We sat in the train station and played cards as 7 on lookers watched us!!
Then we arrived to the beautiful city of Pingyoa! It is a walled in city and the temp had gone up lots!!!!!
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