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By BossManBing
July 9th 2008

China - Luoyang

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Longmen Grottoes
Either side of the Buddha stands two pretty transvestites - a possible origin of the Thai 'lady-boy'

I took a seven hour train ride to Zhenzhou, arriving late, and then a three and a half hour bus-ride to the town of Luoyang. The next day I was up early to get the public bus out to the Longmen grottoes. They obviously didn't get too many foreign tourists on the bus, as pretty much everyone stared at me for the 50 minute journey... It was worth it though, as the Longmen carvings were brought to us by the same folks that gave us the Yungang caves, after they'd moved their capital from Datong to Luoyang. The carvings were incredible [View Full Entry]

By BossManBing
July 9th 2008

China - Kaifeng

Asia » China » Henan » Kaifeng

1048 armed Buddha
Carved from 1 tree and then gold-leaved, it took 58 years to complete

After seven weeks in China, my VISA had all but expired, so I head for a small city called Kaifeng, a four hour bus-ride from Luoyang, in hopes of getting an extension. Unfortunately, because of the Olympics, 2008 is China's 'Special Year' and VISAs are hard to come by. In Kaifeng they could only give me a 10 day extension from that day - not much point when I still had 13 days left on the current one. I book a train ticket to Nanjing, the old Capital of China, but it leaves me two days to kill in Kaifeng. I [View Full Entry]

By Sarah liu
July 2nd 2008

My younger sisters in USA

Asia » China » Henan » Zhengzhou

Addision and her mum &dad
Heidi & Scott ,and Addision,they are so happy! life is gift for everybody! I am happy for them.

Time goes so fast! Several monthes have past .I miss my younger sisters,AddIsion & Ellie &Emma,here are some pictures of them.Hope they are happy in the other world. Gold bless them! Love them! [View Full Entry]

By Sarah liu
June 29th 2008

Singapore mum and dad triped in henan and xi an

Asia » China » Henan » Luoyang

At the beginning of the 2008,my singapore triped in henan and xi an. Here are some pictures of them. We began zhengzhou ---kaifeng---luoyang---xian--beijing--singapore. [View Full Entry]

By Yuan Ming
June 16th 2008

Longmen and Hangzhou

Asia » China » Henan » Luoyang

Stone Buddha

((After the experience of living in the Hong Kong Temple, I returned to China for 30 days. There I came to two places, very magical and mystical places. Here I want to share, through some poems and photos, my deep love and appreciation that I feel when in China, especially when in such places as these)) Longmen (Dragon Gates)~These Buddhist...caves, more like a portion of a river valley that has been scultped into a window giving view of the Buddhist conceptualized universe, have been chissled, carved, crafted and adored for over 1500 long and slow years, while the river peacefully made [View Full Entry]

By Sarah liu
June 15th 2008

Congratulations :Adoption Family Andrew &Dana(11th---17th of JUNE)

Asia » China » Henan » Zhengzhou

Yan Yan (Grace)
the girl who will live with me for some months until her mum come to China.

I have worked for adoption family for some time,i was touched a lot.When i saw the children in the orphanage ;when i saw the family ;when i saw the happy face;when i heard the laugh ,i can not image my feeling.I am a simple girl ,but i am easy to be touched. Andrew &Dana ,they are very kind and nice person.They already adopted one child,her name is niaomi.she is a sweet girl,i like her too much.Anna is the second child for the family.I can understand their feeling ,most of the time,i wanted to write something ,but just feel confused what [View Full Entry]

By the soul cultivator
June 4th 2008

If you want an audience start a fight.

Asia » China » Henan » Luoyang

Met these two happy souls
while leaving Xian.

We arrived by train on Tuesday afternoon, then left by train on Wednesday night. I was too tired then to find anything out, and Im too tired now to write anything. This is what happened in between..... [View Full Entry]

By Sarah liu
June 2nd 2008

Tour in kaifeng

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business woman in kaifeng
the clothes she wears is from song dynasty

In Henan, we have four cities called ancient capital cities,they are Luoyang,Zhengzhou.Kaifeng and Anyang. Luoyang is famous for the Longmen caves, Guanlin temple,White horse temple and so on. Zhengzhou is famous for the Shang dynasty,3500 years ago,the king of the Shang dynasty made the capital in Zhengzhou ,so that is why until now ,Zhengzhou has another name "Shang city". Kaifeng is famous as ancient capital for the seven dynasties.Especially,she is famous for the style of the Song dynasty.In Chinese history, Song was divided into two parts,Northern Song and Southern Song.The capital of [View Full Entry]

By Daz_Crawford
June 2nd 2008

Traveling The Most Dangerous Road In China?

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The Most Dangerous Road In China?
One insane road trip along the cliff edges

Guoliangcun was another one of those small towns that was incredibly difficult to find. We left Shaolin in the early hours and got on a local bus to Luoyang and then made our way to the long distance bus station in Dengfang. At first we struggled to find the long distance bus station, because everyone kept pointing us in different directions. I got the feeling they didn't have a clue what we were asking and they just wanted to get rid of us. Occasionally we would approach people for directions that would give us a confused look and then proceed to [View Full Entry]

By Sarah liu
May 30th 2008

Sarah teach english in Zhengzhou Tourism College (May 29th,2008)

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My students
These girls want to be a tour guide ,they are preparing the class .

MAY 29th,i got one call from my teacher .She wanted me to go back to the college to teach english .Seriously ,i did not know how to teach ,i was a little upset. There were more than ten girls in the class,when i saw them ,i was thinking about my past.It was a little hard ,but it was life . In 2005,i was thinking to be a tour guide.But in my college. there is no history for the english tour guide.i did not want to be the number one,just wanted to do it. So i entered for the examination.But i [View Full Entry]

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