From the ancient town, we went outside the city to visit the Yungang Grottoes, a very famous temple cave attraction. On the way there, we already saw things that are handled differently in China: solar panels all over the place and wind turbines on the ridges of hills.

In Germany, this would be unthinkable, I guess.

We had heard about the crazy big tourist attractions in China from other travelers, but being there is something else. The area of this attraction was huge! Space for tens of thousands of visitors.

And in this attraction, a lot was authentic. Some of the caves were still in their untouched state.

But of course, most of them got repaired and rebuilt.

And of course, we were not alone.

A lot of small Buddhas.

And a lot of big ones. These caves were huge and impressive. Unthinkable who put in all the effort to build this up.

The small guy…

… helping the big one.

We had a good time and got quickly used to this amount of people around.

And of course, there were souvenirs. Modern ones.

Older ones.

And interesting stuff everywhere.

After the caves, we continued our way on the perfect expressways through big cities with a lot of huge apartment complexes. We started calling them domino stones.

After some driving, we found a good spot on the huge parking lot of the next big attraction.

And on all of these big parking lots, there were some Chinese campers as well. It felt good not to be the only ones camping at these places, and some of the Chinese guys had already been staying there for weeks.

From the parking lot, we had to take a bus to the attraction, because otherwise there would just be too many cars on the small roads leading there.

That was interesting as well: at every attraction, there were some key locations all of the Chinese visitors wanted to take a selfie with. We did not check what these were about, but for them, they were special.

And there they were: the famous hanging temples.

We did not want to pay the admission fee just to walk slowly in line beside the temple, so we just checked it out with our binoculars.

After the temple, we took another bus further up the mountain. A hike was possible, but instead of walking three hours one way in the bright, sweltering sun…

… we watched a short theater performance about a famous Chinese warrior,…

… checked out things like soy lemonade,…

… and got Racki a new sun hat.