Datong blog posts
![Some of the oldest (non-renovated) parts of the Great Wall.](https://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/two-girls-in-china/wp-content/uploads/thumb_DSC_0632_1024-250x250.jpg)
Day #5: Tracing the Jesuits’s footsteps…on the Great Wall!
Yesterday night we left Beijing on a night train and this morning we arrived in Datong in the current Shanxi
![thumb_DSC_0648_1024](https://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/two-girls-in-china/wp-content/uploads/thumb_DSC_0648_1024-250x250.jpg)
Day #6: Exploring the holy mountains
Today we went to explore some of the mountains of Northern China! Kircher talks about how the Chinese study and
![Day #6: Whose bells are biggest?](https://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/two-girls-in-china/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20160812_094715.jpg)
Day #6: Whose bells are biggest?
According to a description of Kircher, in a book previous to the China Illustrata, European bells, especially the Erford one