Train to Datong

Tuesday We had booked a side trip for a couple of days to Datong in Shanxi province. To get here we took the high speed train. The train network is extremely well organised. It took us 2 hours to get to Datong. Thanks to the mighty mobile phones and its apps we can pay everything, book museums, order food in restaurants and so on. However when we arrived in Datong, our mobile phone failed us. In the basement of the station we found only a clogging up of taxis including the drivers who were passing their time playing card and smoking cigarettes. With the DIDI app we had to cancel 2 taxis because they could not get out of the queue. Strange situation. After walking around in many circles and a bit of cursing here and there we found a friendly taxi driver outside who delivered us safely to the hotel. These things are not nice to experience but they always make up for a good story afterwards :) Datong is interesting to say the least, and we found out why….