Luoyang Day 1

For our third vacation, we decided to go to both Luoyang and Xi'an because we didn't think either city would have enough to do for 4 days.  The trip turned out to be a lot of fun although it was very tiring sleeping on trains 3 out of 5 nights we were gone. Sorry I got a little bit carried away with posting so many pictures but I figured someone would enjoy seeing them all.  

Our hotel room. We were stoked, we actually had towels (but no toilet paper)!

The bridge at the Longman Caves

Stupid lighting

This is what was suppose to be in the background of the picture from above

Happy Buddha

Group shot in a cave

Little caves with little Buddhas

Beheaded Buddha. We heard 2 stories about why there were a bunch of buddhas without heads.  The first was from a tour guide that was leading around a chinese tourist group.  The lady said it was the Americans who had done it (which I am pretty sure is untrue).  We heard from someone else that Mao was the one who did it (which I think is more likely).

Yay, we love group pictures with random Chinese people

More pictures of the caves

The most famous of the Buddhas.  If memory serves me correctly, his ears are 2m long.

Caves from a distance, pretty sweet.