Zhengzhou Private Day Trip to Luoyang Visiting Shaolin Temple & Longmen Grottoes

Hotel Pick-up & Transfer to Shaolin Temple
Your private guide will be holding IslamiChina Travel pick-up sign and waiting for you in your hotel lobby (or other appointed meeting place) at the appointed time. You will be transferred to Shaolin Temple (90km, about 2 hours) in a comfortable private vehicle.

Visit Shaolin Temple (2 hours)
Shaolin Temple is the origin temple of Chan Buddhism and cradle of Chinese martial art Kungfu. First built in 495 AD, it was a royal temple built to accommodate Indian Buddhist monk Master Batuo. Later it became the center of Buddhism in China, where holy monks gathered, emperors and high-ranking officials came to visit and pay homage, and poets and scholars came to admire the beauty of this scenic place. Shaolin Kungfu is one of the ways that monks of Shaolin Temple study Chan Buddhism. Being the single most outstanding representative of ancient Chinese martial arts culture, Shaolin Kungfu is very welcomed among people of many different cultures. It is a vivid legend in the history of the human being’s civilization. Continue your visit to the Pagoda Forest, where hundreds of stone pagodas, memorials to past monks, are tightly grouped together in a Forest. Also don’t miss the Kungfu Show begining at 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00, lasting for half hour each day.

Lunch at Your Own Expense
Please feel free to ask your guide for suggestions and recommendations.

Drive to Longmen Grottoes (76km about 90 minutes)

Visit Longmen Grottoes (90 minutes)
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Longmen Grottoes are Buddhist cave complex consisting of more than 2300 caves and niches carved into the steep limestone cliffs over a 1km long stretch. These contain almost 110,000 Buddhist stone statues, more than 60 stupas and 2800 inscriptions carved on steles. Created over the course of approximately five centuries beginning in the year 493, these grottoes, along with the statues and inscriptions carved within, provide a window into the political, cultural, and artistic circumstances of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties.

Transfer Back to Your Hotel (136km, about 2 hours & 30 minutes)
Your guide and driver will transfer you back to your hotel in Zhengzhou.