1-Day Private tour:Longmen Grottoes and Shaolin Temple from Luoyang City

In the morning, our guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel at 9am or Longmen railway station and transfer to Longmen Grottoes.

You first will visit the the Longmen Grottoes, which is a treasure house of ancient stone-carving art. Carrying over 1500 years of history, Longmen Grottoes is the carving masterpiece, which went through over 400 years to complete, tracing back to AD 493 of Northern Wei dynasty. Now as the famous tourist site, it shows the bright period of Buddhist culture of ancient China.

Then, you will explore the Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chinese Zen Buddhism and Shaolin Martial Arts. Here, your private Kung Fu tour comes to a climax when you see the Kung Fu show performed by Shaolin monks. Besides, Shaolin Temple boasts some traditional valued architecture like the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Mahavira Hall, the Pagoda Forest, the Dharma Cave and the Shaolin Temple Martial Art Training Center. Among them, the Pagoda Forest is the largest group of ancient pagodas existing in China. In the year of 2010, Shaolin Temple has been included in the UNESCO's World Heritage list.

After lunch, your guide will escort you to your hotel.End of our services today.