About the Image(s)

Most of the grottoes are all caves inside, as you can see further to the left of the giant Buddha, but it was much easier to get a picture of this huge Buddha and to see the scale of it with the people in the picture.

Here's a description of them: The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Five Caves created by Tan Yao, with their strict unity of layout and design, constitute a classical masterpiece of the first peak of Chinese Buddhist art.

This was taken with iPhone