By Du Haitao, Wang Ke "I knew there would be a lot of tourists, but I never expected so many," said Li Xin, who runs a B&B hotel near the Longmen Grottoes, a tourist site boasting a history of more than 1,500 years in Luoyang, central China's Henan province. According…
The Chinese "Golden Week" refers either of the two week-long holidays around National Day on October 1, and the lunar calendar Spring Festival which usually falls in January or February of each year. Tens of millions of Chinese travel by air, train and road to family reunions, vacations or shopping centres during these holidays.
It is a life goal of mine to explore every province in China, so when I had the opportunity to visit Henan, I swiftly packed my bags, bought a train ticket, and left a veritable trail of smoke as I raced to see two icons of Chinese culture, the Longmen Grottoes and the Shaolin Temple.