Sulongyuan Hotel Luoyang
No.607 Zhongzhou Middle Road, Xigong District Luoyang, Henan, China
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Buddhist caves and temples galore
... a couchsurfing.com) but after an hour with him Andres local host had done a runner and switched off his phone! Needless to say we had a couple of sleepless nights.
Despite all of this we did manage to get out to visit the Longmen caves (another Unesco World Heritage site tick) These are a range of grottoes of Buddhist rock carving from AD494. The 41 Bus took us up to the entrance where you pay 110Y for the pleasure of viewing. For the main attraction in Luo Yang ...
Xi'an to Luoyang
... decide if it was safe to go to Japan post earthquake, my final conclusion was that we were at much higher risk from Chinese trains than from the amount of radiation reaching Tokyo.) The ride was very smooth, with little feeling of speed, especially since we mostly were going through fields, which don't change terribly fast. There was a section where they are building a parallel trestle to the train tracks, and it looked like some houses will need to ...
Luoyang
... carved hands (with a hint of a slit-eye on each). The Reading Sutras Cave had a reddish-brown Buddha in the middle sitting on a pedestal. His missing hands were in the right position to hold a book, and smaller ...
Oooh wee oooh I look just like Buddha Holly
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Bye - next update comes from Shanghai
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Hallo - ein kurzes update fuer alle nicht englisch sprachigen Leser:
Nachdem wir uns in Peking zum Abschluss einen ganzen Tag der Architektur gewidmet haben (Olympiastadium etc), machten wir uns am 3. Mai mit dem Nachtzug nach Xi'an auf.
In Xi'an nahmen wir an einem Tagesausflug zu den Terrakottaarmeen teil. ...
Luoyang - one of China's ancient capitals
... us a while to get used to the high pitched singing style, but we soon started to see how much humour and sheer artistry there was in the performance. It was great fun.
The end of an action packed day.
10th October:
Visits to the Summer ...


