Luoyang Travel Blogs

The morning tour bus rush at the hotel was quite something. Their breakfast area was so crowded that it was impossible to find a free table, I got to sit down when one of our tour group people was leaving, and a stranger from another tour group took the other seat. The busses were making quite …

Our flight into Beijing was smooth enough, and we encountered no real difficulty in getting to our hostel. First objective accomplished. Prior reports of lack of English and the unfriendliness of the Chinese had yet to materialise, but obviously these were early days yet. Unbeknown to us (this woul…

Afer spending a few days in Beijing we headed to Luoyang. I am writing this almost a year after the trip, but I think I remember the train from Beijing to Luoyang being about 10 hours, I don't remember. We took a night train so I slept most of the way. The whole purpose of this stop was to see…

good breakfast then on to the famous archeological siteagain cloudy sky and hot - but the place is impressivewe learn that would be even more spectacular at night when it's full of lightsLetizia gets tired with her swollen ankle and gets back by electric cartI make it back by crossing two bridges a…

These are some photos and a few journal entries I wanted to share from my first solo backpacking trip. It lasted 9 months. In retrospect, I wish I had been on this site to write a blog in real time and learn from all the people here. Also, I just love seeing that map Travbuddy draws up outlining my route! I'll be adding my photos whenever I find some time so bare with me while I get them them up.

Photos and stories from my travels around the world.

I got on public bus number 81 and headed to the Longman grotto. There were soo many stone buddhas!   It was ok.   It's FREEZING here. I expected it to be cold here in China in February... outdoors. But it's cold indoors too. There is no heat on buses, in restaura…

We got an overnight train to Luoyang. Luoyang is home to the Dragon Gate Grottoes, a series of caves similar in idea to the Cloud Ridge Caves in Datong. We hadn't planned a stop in Luoyang, but ended up there because of restrictions as to which train tickets were available. The caves were a slightl…

Tocht over land vanaf Shanghai via Beijing, Tibet naar Delhi in India. Zo nu en dan actueel te volgen middels stippen op de Googlemap met wellicht tevens een beknopte tekst.

Today was our check-out day and so we had to kill time in a fairly boring town until our train to Pingyao later that evening. We wandered around the local area and found a nice local restaurant which smelled great as we walked past. We sat down and looked at the menu on the wall, which was all …

After spending the night on the train from Shanghai I arrived this morning in Luoyang. It's still warm and there was no breeze. Coming of the train someone came over to me with a Hostelling international brocure. I thought this was the one picking me up. Ha, ha, she was showing me a very different …

This is an itinerary of our trip around the world and does not include any journal entries.

So we landed at Luoyang airport and took a taxi to our hotel. Of course this time there was no mob of taxi cheats, but 1 taxi.  This guy had no meter in his care and said 100. Period - that was what we had to pay or we didn’t go to the hotel. What were we going to do?  We got in and…

First on our iteniery is the Longmen Grottoes, located in the south of Luoyang City, the grottoes can be found between Mount Xiang and Mount Longmen facing the Yi River.  Regarded as one of the three most famous treasure houses of stone inscription in China, the Grottoes were started around th…

Okay, part - don’t know - of my neverending story. So, I took the train from Xi’an to Luoyang, we arrived in that city of only 1,5 Million in the early afternoon, we had time for shopping. Honestly, there are greater places for buying anything, but at least here you have a the chance to buy thi…