Well, we have just spent the day visiting the home of Kong Fu and I am most impressed. We arrived in Shaolin from Luoyang after visiting the Longmen Caves which is one of China's few surviving masterpieces of Buddhist rock carvings. While in Luoyang we spent the day checking out the entire face of a mountain which has been carved into a thousand images of Buddha. The detail in the carvings made it a very impressive sight. We got to Dengfeng on a local bus while dealing with the usual confused expressions, spitting and language barrier issues. The pointing, staring and occasional poke does not surprise me anymore, but I still can't get my head around their need to spit everywhere. Its disgusting, they spit on the bus, the train, the street and even the shop
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