Luoyang and Zhengzhou

We were incredibly happy to leave Huashan, even though it was an amazing place. Or next stop, Luoyang, is a relatively small city (which used to be the capital hundreds of years ago) of a few million people. We only had one day there so we decided to skip the touristy stuff and go straight to the old city and eat at the night market. We stuck around for four or five hours, eating shiskebab and enjoying the atmosphere and walked back to our hostel. The next day we took a train to Zhengzhou, where we only had one day as well. Zhengzhou is a much bigger city than Luoyang and we weren't sure what to do there because there honestly weren't that many tourist attractions, but that was no problem for us. We winded up going to another night market and eating street food which I think is better than many American restaurants. At some point in our stay in Zhengzhou we found a large shopping area for young people and sat down and people watched for a few hours. As it was getting late, the amount of younger people dwindled and we were suddenly approached by this old, old, old man who sat right in-between us and started talking an a indiscernible dialect. What made it even wielder was that he grabbed my friend's arm and started stroking his skin. At that point we got up and walked away, half laughing half wondering what the heck just happened. That might have been the highlight of our time in Zhengzhou, and  it's probably the thing I will remember the longest, funnily enough. These last two cities we visited were interesting, but after a while streets and buildings started blending in with each other. There wasn't much difference between all the cities we visited. All in all the trip was excellent and we were all glad to be heading back to Beijing anticipating more fun times.