Covering an area of 5500 square meters, the Ciyun Temple is located in the West Street in the Tianzhen County in the north of Datong City. As an integrated group of temple buildings, the Ciyun Temple is praised as "Guanbei Jusha" Its main parts are Shan Gate, Jingang Hall, Drum Tower, Daxiongba Palace, Pilu Temple and so on.

    Datong locates in the loess plateau, the geography is complicated and diverse, basically belongs to the temperate zone continental monsoon climate, the average air temperature of year has 6.8 degrees, it is very cold in winter, cooler in summer in Datong, so it is a good place for summer resort. The characteristic here is the big difference in temperature. You had better take one more coat for the algidity in day and night. The best traveling time here is from April to October.