Blogs from Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Asia - page 7

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! ... read more

May 24th,i went to railway station to pick julia.then we went to dengfeng by car.It took 2 hours from Zhengzhou to Deng,On the way to Dengfeng,we had enjoied the time .I talked about the history of Henan and Zhengzhou .Julia enjoied a lot.We had a nice time together. The next day,we went to tour the Shaolin Temple.All the people know that ,shaolin kung fu is so famous in the world,making the temple more and more famous than before .We went to DHARMA'a cave and climbed to the top of the monutain.IT was amazing and excited! We met one fortune teller ,each of us was the lucky one who go the best lot.Thanks god! And we got the lucky number 6 ! Crazy tour ! lots of fun! ... read more

AS you probably understand already - Shaolin temple is where the Kung fu (martial art) was born - and yes, it is kung and not kong... To arrive there we enjoyed a new fast luxtury train from Beijing (5h) and 2 hours bus which brought us to a nearby town (Denfeng). since we had not much inforamation on this town we had to spend the night in a bit expensive hotel and decide to stay there one more night... The temple area was full of tourists and we saw a Kung Fu show again, but this time we also saw a Kung Fu monk throwing a steal niddle throug a glass (making a hole in it) and blowing a baloon which stoond behind it! The more impressive site was the Kung Fu school (the biggest) ... read more

Day 177, 24th November Xingxiang - Zhengzhou As route 107 was now a motorway, we negotiated Xingxiang via a new by-pass and after took a more rural route south to the Yellow River - our destination, Zhengzhou. The road became very rural as we approached the river with another massive headwind. People used the road as a huge surface to dry out corn on which was unusual to see, us cycling over the corn and trucks passing on top of it too. Then the roads just became confusing and we got lost ending up in a desperate village and witnessing a sight that I really didn’t want to see - a guy nonchalantly ripping the heads off live chickens which he pulled from a sack, and then tossing their bodies onto the road to run about ... read more

We ventured next to Zhengzhou to visit the Shaolin temple. We treated ourselves to a nice hotel and had a hotel car drive us to the temple, it was great to be able to afford such luxuries. At the temple we saw the Shaolin monks performing their martial arts in a show, it was very impressive. We also saw young monks practicing around the temple grounds, a Shaolin monk school. The monks were friendly, some of them wanting to practice their English with us. After Zhengzhou we went to Shanghai, the best place to shop! Shanghai was much cleaner and more welcoming than the other places we had visited which had sometimes been a bit of a struggle. The Chinese culture is very different to ours and almost no-one speaks English, except in Shanghai (not that ... read more