Travel: Yungang Grottoes

A Buddha sculpture is seen through a hole in a stone wall at the Yungang Grottoes, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The 252 caves and 51,000 statues of the grottoes represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries

Visitors walk past a Buddha sculpture at the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist temple caves, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

Visitors walk past a Buddha sculpture at the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist temple grottoes, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

Visitors look at caves at the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist temple grottoes, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

Visitors walk past Buddha caves at the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist temple caves, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The examples of rock-cut architecture is one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites of China.

Buddhists pray in front of a 56-foot-high Buddha sculpture at the Yungang Grottoes, ancient Buddhist temple grottoes, near the city of Datong, in China's Shanxi Province, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

Visitors view Buddhist sculptures at the Yungang Grottoes on Aug. 6, 2006, in Datong in Shanxi Province, China.

Visitors view Buddhist sculptures at the Yungang Grottoes on Aug. 6, 2006, in Datong, in Shanxi Province, China.

The Yungang Grottoes form part of an ancient Buddhist temple built more than 1,500 years ago,in Datong, Shanxi Province, China, Aug. 6, 2006.

A woman walks past Buddhist sculptures at the Yungang Grottoes on Aug. 6, 2006, in Datong of Shanxi Province, China.

Located at the southern foot of Mount Wuzhou, west of Datong in Shanxi Province, the Yungang grottoes, one of China's four cave groups with Buddhist statues, were first hewn in the Northern Wei Dynasty.