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The following is a travel guide for Laojun Mountain in Luoyang: Preliminary preparations - Documents: Bring your ID card. Students and teachers can enjoy half-price discounts on tickets with valid documents. - Clothing: Prepare a warm coat, such as a windbreaker. Even in summer, you need to prepare one. If you climb at night to watch the sunrise, you need to bring a thick cotton coat. Choose comfortable and non-slip sneakers or hiking shoes. - Items: Bring sunscreen, sun hats, sunglasses, rain gear, etc. You can also bring hiking poles, or you can buy two thin bamboo poles at the foot of the mountain for CNY 5 to replace them. - Medicines: Prepare common medicines such as cold medicine, gastrointestinal medicine, and motion sickness medicine. - Food and water: Bring an appropriate amount of light snacks such as chocolate and beef jerky, and prepare 1–2 bottles of water per person. Transportation Guide - Self-driving: Buy tickets in advance and navigate to the Laojun Mountain Yunjing Cableway or Zhongling Cableway entrance. If you climb the mountain during the day, it is recommended to navigate to the Yunjing Cableway parking lot. If you climb at night, navigate to Lingguan Temple. - Carpool: You can find cars soliciting customers near the train station for about CNY 60 per one-way trip. After arriving at the scenic spot, there are two sections of scenic transportation for CNY 20 per one-way trip. - Bus: Get off at Luoyang Station and take a bus at the Luoyang Bus Station diagonally opposite the station. The expressway costs CNY 50, and the ordinary route costs CNY 40. Get off at Longmen Station and take a bus at Longmen Bus Station. The ticket price is CNY 40. After getting off the bus, there are two sections of scenic transportation for CNY 20 per one-way trip. - One-day tour group: The tour fee is CNY 145, plus the CNY 130 for the first-level cableway combo ticket, for a total of CNY 275. Itinerary - Daytime itinerary: Laojun Mountain Tourist Center → Ticket gate → First section of cableway → Zhongtianmen → Shili Gallery → Mazong Ridge → Nantianmen → Golden Summit Taoist Temple Complex → Down the mountain. - Night climbing route: Laojun Mountain Tourist Center → Ticket gate → Lingguan Temple → Zhongtianmen → Wonderland Tunnel → Golden Summit Taoist Temple Complex. Accommodation recommendations - In the scenic area: Laojun Mountain Wu Qianyan is located on the top of the mountain, making it convenient to watch the sunset and sunrise. Laojun Mountain Qimeng Junlan Pavilion is built on the mountain, where you can watch the mountains and enjoy the moon, and experience Hanfu. Laojun Mountain Yunjing Flower Sea Homestay is next to the cableway and snack street. - Outside the scenic area: Luanchuan Yishuiwan Hotel is near Fenghuang Tianjie and the surrounding area of Laojun Mountain Scenic Area. It is a Huizhou-style garden hotel and provides free pick-up service. Luanchuan Shanyuhuayan Travel Hotel has a garden cafe and tea bar on the roof, where you can take photos of mountain and water scenery. Tianhui Guanshan Hotel is about 10 minutes' drive from Laojun Mountain. The rooms are large, and some rooms have mountain view floor-to-ceiling windows, which is cost-effective. Food recommendations - Laojun Mountain Tofu: It has a delicate texture, tender and smooth taste, and a strong bean flavor. It can be cold mixed, fried, or stewed. - Luanchuan Eight Bowls: It has strong local characteristics, including black pork belly, farm tofu with meat, and dragon and phoenix egg rolls. - Jiangba: It is made of glutinous rice flour, white sugar, rose sauce, etc. The outer skin is crispy, the inside is soft and glutinous, and it tastes sweet. - Pickled Vegetable Tofu Rice: It smells fragrant, tastes sour and spicy, and is appetizing. The tofu is tender and the pickled vegetables are salty and fragrant.