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Day 287: Drum Tower & Ancient City
September 17, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌙 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.
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Day 288: White Horse Temple
September 18, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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Day 288: Ancient City Han & Wei Dynasty
September 18, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 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 here. It was free entrance when we were there. But it won’t be free in the near future for sure.Read more
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Day 289: Luoyang Museum
September 19, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 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, white, green) which were the popular pottery style of the Tang Dynasty.Read more
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Day 290: Luoyang Longmen Caves
September 20, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 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 to ourselves for the very first hour!

Surrounded by a beautiful environment of green hills and a clean river, a lot or caves and niches are located on both cliffs, Just like a honeycomb. Longmen Grottoes was
inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO.

The carving work at Longmen began in Northern Wei Dynasty, when the Emperor moved his capita to Luoyang. From then
on, construction on caves had been carried on during Western Wei, Eastern
Wei, Northern Qi, Sui and Tang, Five Dynasties.Read more
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Day 292: Lijingmen
September 22, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌙 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 has become a very touristy area.Read more
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Day 292: Luoyang National Heritage Park
September 22, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌙 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 at night.Read more
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Day 293: Luoyang Longmen Station
September 23, 2024 in China ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Back to the train station again for the train ride to Ningbo. Another 7 hours train ride to go!
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Day 293: Ningbo Train Station
September 23, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 here in Ningbo to finish up our Silk Road Journey.Read more
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Day 294: Silk Road Canal
September 24, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 completed our silk road journey ✅Read more
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Day 295: Moon Lake
September 25, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Tour around Ningbo! We walked around the Moon Lake area. It is a man-made lake in Ningbo. Quite pleasant and relaxing.
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Day 295: Yongfeng Warehouse Site
September 25, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 constructions, surrounded by the relies of filed corridors as well as the yards,
drainage ditches, wells and stream courses. The excavation of the site is so far the
largest and the most fruitful urban excavation in the history of Ningbo.Read more
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Day 295: Ningbo Drum Tower
September 25, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 day we visited, so we just stayed there briefly.Read more
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Day 295: Ningbo Cathedral
September 25, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 in China. Ningbo had a lot of western influence during the Opium War period, therefore the historical buildings remained in the city as well.Read more
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Day 296: Tiantong Temple
September 26, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 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 Soto School of Japanese Buddhism.

No tour group came here but it was definitely a peaceful place to walk around. Even though the weather was not good, we did spend whole day walking around the area.Read more
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Day 297: Ningbo Museum
September 27, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌧 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.
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Day 298: Ningbo Train Station
September 28, 2024 in China ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Ningbo Train Station! Our last stop in Ningbo! Another 10 hours train ride until our last stop (Shenzhen) before heading home.
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Day 298: Shenzhen North Station
September 28, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
10-hour train ride ✅ here we are, Shenzhen! One step more until home, Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Traveler Looking good❣️
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Day 299: Shenzhen
September 29, 2024 in China ⋅ 🌙 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!
Traveler What a good looking, happy group.
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Traveler This photo reminded me of the Mandarin Restaurant.
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Day 300: Hong Kong
September 30, 2024 in Hong Kong ⋅ ☀️ 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 :)
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Trip end
September 30, 2024