Good stuff on the way to Taiyuan

We left Pingyau after the big party and made a couple of stops on the way to TaiYuan. The first was the "Hanging Monetary". It was pretty impressive as far as elevated 1300 year old monasteries go. Apparently it was elevated many times over history as the level of the river rose. Recently however a dam has been built to control the water level.
The building is very thin and narrow pressed against the side of the cliff. Tourists are aloud to go all over the building and in my opinion many of the poles were dangerously rickety!
Luckily we survived to view other dangerous tourist attractions, like this humongous stone cabbage in the lobby of our hotel in TaiYuan. Yeah, you can see how the children are effected by it.
In the morning we were off to our final destination before Beijing, the Wooden Pagoda and Datong.

The Wooden pagoda is the oldest wooden pagoda in China. It is 9 storeys tall and more than 1,000 years old. It is also blessed by a huge Buddha inside.