Day 287: Drum Tower & Ancient City
2024年9月17日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Mid-Autumn Festival! We visited the Ancient City of Luoyang and the Drum tower. Very touristy but full of Mid-Autumn Festive atmosphere.
Day 288: White Horse Temple
2024年9月18日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
White Horse Temple is a Buddhist temple in Luoyang. It is the first Buddhist temple in China, it is first established in 68AD in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Day 288: Ancient City Han & Wei Dynasty
2024年9月18日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Ancient City of the Han & Wei Dynasties! It’s close to The White Horse Temple, around 3km walk. Nobody came here as it’s not well set up yet. They were still building a large museum for the ruinsもっと詳しく
Day 289: Luoyang Museum
2024年9月19日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Best rainy day’s activity! Visiting Luoyang Museum to understand more about the ancient Luoyang. The most impressive part of the museum was the showcase of the three-coloured figurines (yellow,もっと詳しく
Day 290: Luoyang Longmen Caves
2024年9月20日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Our highlight in Luoyang! The Luoyang Longmen Caves. We were advised by our friends in Dunhuang to come early and go straight to the Giant Buddha to beat the crowd. Very good advice! We had the placeもっと詳しく
Day 292: Lijingmen
2024年9月22日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Lijingmen, another gate in the ancient city of Luoyang. It was built in the Sui Dynasty. It has been a place where hundreds of officials and people worshipped gods. The night view is amazing. Now, itもっと詳しく
Day 292: Luoyang National Heritage Park
2024年9月22日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
National Heritage Park of the Sui and Tang Dynasty in Luoyang. There were a few heritage of the Sui and Tang Dynasty here, most of them were rebuilt though. Still nice to come for a visit especiallyもっと詳しく
Day 293: Luoyang Longmen Station
2024年9月23日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Back to the train station again for the train ride to Ningbo. Another 7 hours train ride to go!
Day 293: Ningbo Train Station
2024年9月23日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Welcome to Ningbo! Not many tourists will visit Ningbo but Chris wanted to finish Chapter 1 with the start of the Maritime Silk Road (that connects to the Pacific Ocean). Therefore, we made a stopもっと詳しく
Day 294: Silk Road Canal
2024年9月24日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
The only goal in Ningbo, visiting the Canal! We saw a smaller part of the canal in Luoyang, but here we could see a bigger version, which connects to the Pacific Ocean. It looked like we haveもっと詳しく
Day 295: Moon Lake
2024年9月25日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Tour around Ningbo! We walked around the Moon Lake area. It is a man-made lake in Ningbo. Quite pleasant and relaxing.
Day 295: Yongfeng Warehouse Site
2024年9月25日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Yongfeng Warehouse Site, originally a rice warehouse in the Southern Song Dynasty, was renovated by the local government of Ningbo in the Yuan Dynasty. In the center
of the site stand two detachedもっと詳しく
Day 295: Ningbo Drum Tower
2024年9月25日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Next to the Yongfeng warehouse was the Drum Tower. It was constructed during the Tang Dynasty. It’s the only remaining ruin of an d city gate tower in Ningbo.
The weather was not very good on theもっと詳しく
Day 295: Ningbo Cathedral
2024年9月25日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Ningbo Cathedral! This was the first Cathedral that we have seen for a while since Europe. We went inside and it was very peaceful. It was very rare to see a large Cathedral standing in a city centreもっと詳しく
Day 296: Tiantong Temple
2024年9月26日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We discovered this hidden gem in Ningbo. It is a one of the five sacred Chinese Chan (JAPANESE: Zen) Buddhist temples. It is founded by the monk Yixing in the year 300. It is also the cradle of theもっと詳しく
Day 297: Ningbo Museum
2024年9月27日, 中国 ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Rainy day’s activities! We went to visit the museum. It’s free if charge and we learnt more about Ningbo’s culture and history here.
Day 298: Ningbo Train Station
2024年9月28日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Ningbo Train Station! Our last stop in Ningbo! Another 10 hours train ride until our last stop (Shenzhen) before heading home.
Day 298: Shenzhen North Station
2024年9月28日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
10-hour train ride ✅ here we are, Shenzhen! One step more until home, Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Day 299: Shenzhen
2024年9月29日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Our family visited Shenzhen to have a dinner with us before we headed back. So we stayed in the hotel in Shenzhen for one night. And we went back home together after dinner!
Day 300: Hong Kong
2024年9月30日, 香港 ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Very last of our Chapter one journey! Here we are, Hong Kong 🇭🇰🇭🇰 it marked the end of our 300-day journey from Toronto to Hong Kong. It’s time to take some rest and prepare for the next chapter :)
