Hope you enjoyed reliving the top five posts of Adventure Patches from its first five years. For my second celebratory post, I am sharing my updated bucket list. When I first posted it in 2010, I said it was subject … Continued
From the Mogao Caves we hopped in a taxi for the day to visit a few other sites outside of Dunhuang including a 2,000 year old wall and gate and Yadan National Park where Zhang Yimou’s Hero was filmed. 1,000 … Continued
We reached Dunhuang a couple of hours later than expected the next day and made our way to the Dune Guesthouse to arrange our adventures for the next couple of days. Since we arrived late, we didn’t really have time … Continued
My bucket list (subject to change) Click on a completed or in-progress item from my bucket list to find posts about those adventures if I’ve written about them on this blog. All photos are mine for completed or in-progress items (except … Continued
Hundreds of thousands of hand-chiseled Buddha effigies and the first Buddhist temple in China also call Luoyang home. These were our destinations for day two. Longmen Grottoes A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Longmen Grottoes are an impressive monument to … Continued