Chengdu Trip Overview
Travel from Chengdu to Shaolin Temple by high-speed train on this privately guided full-day tour. Your private guide picks you up in Zhengzhou and takes you to Shaolin Temple. You will have plenty time to watch a kung-fu performance that displays amazing martial arts moves, discover the history and culture of the Shaolin Temple with your knowledgable tour guide and admire the biggest pagoda forest in China. This tour includes train tickets, tasty local lunch, all entrance fee, an English-speaking guide and transport by private vehicle. Your tour will ends in Dengfeng or Zhengzhou, please book your accommodation in advance.
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Duration: 8 to 12 hours
Starts: Chengdu, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Travel from Chengdu to Shaolin Temple by high-speed train on this privately guided full-day tour. Your private guide picks you up in Zhengzhou and takes you to Shaolin Temple. You will have plenty time to watch a kung-fu performance that displays amazing martial arts moves, discover the history and culture of the Shaolin Temple with your knowledgable tour guide and admire the biggest pagoda forest in China. This tour includes train tickets, tasty local lunch, all entrance fee, an English-speaking guide and transport by private vehicle. Your tour will ends in Dengfeng or Zhengzhou, please book your accommodation in advance.
Itinerary
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Pass By: 成都站, China, 四川省成都市金牛区人民北路 邮政编码: 610084
Your driver will pick you up from your Chengdu city hotels lobby and take you to Chengdu Railway Station. You will take the morning train to Zhengzhou, it takes about 5 hours to Zhengzhou.
Stop At: Monastero Shaolin (Shaolin Temple), Songshan Mountain, Dengfeng 450000 China
Upon arrival, meet your friendly local tour guide, you will be transferred to Shaolin Temple directly (approx. 1.5 hours drive), on the way your tour guide will explain the related history of the Shaolin Temple, and you will enjoy the beautiful countryside view.
Once arrive at Shaolin Temple, you will stop at a local restaurant to enjoy a delicious lunch.
Shaolin Temple is famous for Chinese Kungfu, first you will have a chance to witness the real Kung Fu performed by Shaolin monks. As a UNESCO Site, the Shaolin Temple was first constructed in 495 A.D. Later, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-557) had the temple built to accommodate the Indian master Batuo. As Chinese Kungfu also originated from Shaolin Temple, it has been recognized as the origin of Chan Buddhism and the cradle of Kungfu. Accompanied by your knowledgeable tour guide, you will get you know the histories and related stories about Shaolin Temple – culture, people and soul.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Pagoda Forest of Shaolin Temple, West of Shaolin Temple, Dengfeng 450000 China
Afterwards, you will start to explore the Pagoda Forest which is a concentration of tomb pagodas for eminent monks and abbots of the temple. There are more than 240 tomb pagodas of various sizes from the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties (618-1911), making it the biggest pagoda forest in China.
After your Shaolin Temple tour finished, you can choose to end your tour in Dengfeng or Zhengzhou. (Please book your own hotel in advance)
Duration: 1 hour
