Day nine

Today is our last day in Louyang. We take the bus this afternoon to the train station and the long train ride back to Beijing.
In the morning all the participants in the cultural festival meet for a police escort out to the Shaolin Temple.

The bus ride is over an hour but we see lots of interesting countryside. The Shaolin Temple is the training base for Zen and Kung Fu warrior monks. The performers we saw in the Kung Fu show trained here. They recruit many to be in martial art films.



We returned to the hotel for lunch. Some of our group went shopping but we stay around the hotel. Later, we walk down the street to a mart store to buy snacks for the train. It was a nice part of our day and relaxing.
Our hotel is the tall building in the background

We found it funny that after all the hubbub over squat toilets, we passed two stores filled with western ones.
I'm a little more prepared for the train ride this time. I took a sleeping pill and our studio director made sure that we were in an open car. We had KFC sandwiches on the train for dinner. This time, we are one step closer to being home!