Skip to content
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
Welcome to Sweet Surrender

Welcome to Sweet Surrender

Previously known as sweetsurrender.99.com.my

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Disclosure Policy

Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China

Posted on September 22, 2017September 23, 2017 By sweet surrender No Comments on Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China

Had the opportunity to visit Longmen Grottoes back in April.

Wikipedia: The Longmen Grottoes or Longmen Caves are some of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. Housing tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples, they are located 12 kilometres south of present-day Luòyáng in Hénán province, China.


The site is one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites.


We paid RMB100 for entrance. The area is rather huge and The weather was so fine that day. I got sunburn on my forehead 😛 Be sure to wear a hat if you don’t want to get burnt hahaha…


Here’s some general information found at the entrance. Well… Great effort for having dual language albeit funny ones hahah…


The scenery is not bad. However, could see many steel rods coming up in the middle of the trees which are all solar panels and transmission towers to cater for mobile devices needs. QR Code signboards are also everywhere too. This is how advance the Chinese are now.


Wikipedia: There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 2,345 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae”, as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas. Situated in a scenic natural environment, the caves were dug from a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) stretch of cliff running along both banks of the river. 30% date from the Northern Wei Dynasty and 60% from the Tang, caves from other periods accounting for less than 10% of the total.Starting with the Northern Wei Dynasty in 493 AD, patrons and donors included emperors, Wu Zetian of the Second Zhou Dynasty, members of the royal family, other rich families, generals, and religious groups.



So many tourists, most of them are domestic tourists. The place is always filled with people! Even the walking paths, stairs, and handrails turned so slippery and shinny from the frictions endured daily. No doubt the facilities are well maintained.


The site management also set up places where tourists can interact or get up close with some of the items there. The flowery rock is known as Chrysanthemum stone.


The relics are all surrounded by fence because people like to touch it! We could see the previous fence was built nearer to the relics. Now they built it further away to avoid people from touching it. The damages done by visitors are very obvious where the relics were “polished” because of all the touchings until it become smooth and shiny.The text that couldn’t be read before can now be read *LOL*


How grand and huge the place is… These are just part of the attractions.


You can also go on the boat if you are lazy to walk to the exit because there is a lot of walking needed. We lost our direction and got off the boat at the wrong jetty 😛 Ended up had to walk for quite a distance to get ourselves out of the place.

Anyway, looking at how the Chinese develop and maintain their tourist attractions, it gave me goosebumps. When will we be able to reach that standard? Are we able to cope with such influx of them coming to our state? We are still very far lagging behind. Imagine our national parks become like this? I hope it won’t happen…

City of Peonies - Luoyang, Going Places

Post navigation

Previous Post: Hog & Wild Saturday Mingle Party
Next Post: Luoyang Old Street, Luoyang, China

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Tweets by irenelaw

My NFT


ADOPT A SUNBIRD

I'm here too...


Lovebellbelle @ Instagram

Lovebellbelle @ Facebook

Lovebellbelle @ YouTube

Lovebellbelle @ TikTok

艾艾倪 @ 小红书

Latest Posts

  • Happy Lunar New Year 2023January 22, 2023
  • Simple Fried Crunchy Seaweed Snack Any Day AnytimeJanuary 17, 2023
  • Easy Air Fryer Crunchy Meat Floss Spring Roll (Popiah)January 11, 2023
  • Happy New Year 2023!January 2, 2023
  • Quick Review KLEENSO PESSO Eco Ant Bait EffectivenessDecember 27, 2022
  • 4 Tea and Milo Easy Delicious Beverage RecipesDecember 17, 2022
  • Gardens by the Bay (Flower Dome & Cloud Forest)December 9, 2022
  • Realme C35 Unbox, Camera Test, Quick ReviewNovember 30, 2022
  • Hotel Boss Singapore – Easy Access, Convenient, Good LocationNovember 22, 2022
  • A Visit to National Gallery Singapore, the Leading Visual Arts InstitutionNovember 13, 2022

Latest Comments

  1. Happy Lunar New Year 2023 - Welcome to Sweet Surrender on Simple Fried Crunchy Seaweed Snack Any Day AnytimeJanuary 22, 2023

    […] Simple Fried Crunchy Seaweed SnackEasy Air Fryer Crunchy Meat Floss Spring RollEasy Crunchy Crab Stick Snack […]

  2. Happy New Year 2023! - Welcome to Sweet Surrender on Realme C35 Unbox, Camera Test, Quick ReviewJanuary 2, 2023

    […] my post on Instagram yesterday haha… These photos were taken with Realme C35 “smile shutter” feature. It’s pretty fun.…

  3. Quick Review KLEENSO PESSO Eco Ant Bait Effectiveness - Welcome to Sweet Surrender on ARS Natural Ant Bait Effectiveness Quick ReviewDecember 27, 2022

    […] did review another ant bait a few months back. It’s the ARS Natural Ant Bait. This time, I will…

  4. Realme C35 Unbox, Camera Test, Quick Review - Welcome to Sweet Surrender on Quick Getaway from Kuching to Singapore with ScootNovember 30, 2022

    […] using it for over a month and having gone to Singapore with me, I would say that it is…

  5. Realme C35 Unbox, Camera Test, Quick Review - Welcome to Sweet Surrender on Realme C35 – How to Save Photos/Videos to SD CardNovember 30, 2022

    […] but found nothing. In case you are having this problem too, do check out the post I did last…

Featured Reviews

[Read more reviews]



Online Stores

My Cafepress-99Creation
My Cafepress-Vegetable
My Cafepress-Gold Fish
My Cafepress-Swirls & Twirls

Visit My Home

Klook.com

Recommended Sites

Categories

Blogging since 2002. Anything before 2006 is no longer available. It is no longer on this server. Back then, I built my own blog and updated it using HTML. No database or anything. Only started blogging fully with a CMS in 2006. However, whatever was on the Internet will stay on the Internet. So... It should be still somewhere on the Internet. Then again... Why do you want to dig that far?

Copyright © 2023 Welcome to Sweet Surrender.

Powered by PressBook WordPress theme