Dirty Mining Region to Paradise under the Heaven

Date: 2008-3-31 20:51:00 by gina Tags: China Tour China travel

This trip was full of contrasts – from the rather dirty areas of Datong-Pingyao to the very scenic sections later.

Datong

Very smoggy, in a huge coal area with around 10,000 coal mines, poor and dingy miners villages with the remains of ancient fortifications just dotted around, eg old beacon towers, or bits of old wall, built of rammed mud, crumbling now

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