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Luoyang · Route
The imperial essentials — grottoes, the first monastery, the old town and the peony park.
Morning at Longmen Grottoes (west bank out, bridge back), lunch of Luoyang lamb soup, afternoon Guanlin and the Tianzi Jialiu Museum, evening in the old town by Li Jingmen.
White Horse Temple in the morning, then Wangcheng Park and the peony gardens (April), before the HSR back to Zhengzhou.