Traffic jam chaos did not help travel progress as I crossed into Hebei Province. Hundreds, possibly even one (1) thousand plus trucks were the main culprit of the traffic congestion, but cars were the cause of the traffic jam. Two (2) lines of trucks and two (2) lines of cars, four (4) wide on a two (2) lane road (one (1) road lane in each direction), cars became wedged while trying to pass other vehicles and brought traffic to a stand still. After about one (1) hour I began to make progress at crawling pace, eventually clearing after many kilometres I was back up to a reasonable speed and headed to Datong.
Datong Grottoes was my late morning stop for the day, a visit to the site of 55,000 images of Buddha caved in to a rock wall and dug deeper into the rock face to form caves was the visit purpose.
Leaving Datong the ride passed more quickly and I reached my overnight stopover destination of Yangyuan late afternoon. My evening meal contained amongst other things donkey meat, another new and satisfactory eating experience on my travels. With only one (1) night in Eebei Province, the following morning I made tracks for Beijing Province and the city of Beijing for Part 7 of my China tour.
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