Best Luoyang Private One Day Tour: Visit Shaolin Temple and Longmen Grottoes
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4 Ratings
Luo Yang Shi
Embark on the best Luoyang private one day tour and explore the iconic Shaolin Temple and Longmen Grottoes. Customize your itinerary and make the most of your time in this historic city.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Monastero Shaolin (Shaolin Temple) - Your tour guide will greet you at your downtown Luoyang hotel lobby (or Luoyang Train Station) and take you directly to visit Shaolin Temple, a holy place for Buddhism and the origin place of Chinese Shaolin Kongfu. You will have chance to see a short Kongfu show performed by martial monks there.
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Longmen Grottoes - Next you will drive to visit Longmen Grottoes which is one of the top 4 Buddhist grottoes in China. That treasure house of ancient stone-carving houses over 100000 stone statues with largest ones taller than 17 meters and smallest ones shorter than 2 centimeters.
After the tour,you will escorted back to your hotel.
What's Included
- Private, air-conditioned transfers with a licensed driver
- Optional entrance fee
- Service of an excellent English-speaking tour guide
What's Not Included
- Personal expense
- Gratuities
- Any Meal
Additional Information
Best Luoyang one day tour is designed to be completed in 8-9 hours. You will visit Shaolin Temple in the morning. The Temple will be followed by Longmen Grottoes. Then drive back to down city. If time permits, you could visit either White Horse Temple or Luoyang Museum. The 3rd place to visit will be open for you according to your interest. Please talk with your guide and decide where to go.
- Age under 2 is free to join and children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
- You will be contacted at least one day ahead of the travel day via email to advise the pickup info. The tour guide will also call you or leave you a message through your hotel room the night before tour about pickup time.
- Please leave a note when booking if you have any special requirement about the tour, such as diet.
- You are suggested to wear comfortable shoes on tour day.
Location
Luoyang Museum
Nie Tai Lu
Offered pickup is available for hotels within 2nd ring road of Luoyang city or Luoyang Longmen Train Station. If your hotel beyond the range, please expect it might occur extra transfer fee accordingly.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Ernest_l
Sep 28, 2023
Our guide (Shane) spoke fluent English, was very informative, had a pleasant personality, and managed the time efficient - The Longmen Grotto and kung fu performance at Shaolin Monastery were wonderful. A lot of walking and climbing but definitely rewarding.
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John
Dec 9, 2019
Tremendous! - Online images are interesting but nothing compares with the awesome face-to-face tour we experienced!
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Elisabeth_l
Aug 21, 2019
Amazing experience - We had our tour on July 29, 2019. We were late and missed our original bullet train. Luckily, we exchanged tickets and got on the next bullet train. They waited for us at the station and picked us up. We had Priscilla as our tour guide and Mr. Gong as our driver. The car had air conditioning and Mr. Gong offered us bottles of water. Priscilla was very knowledgable and spoke very good English.
At the Longmen Grottoes, she told us about the history of the grottoes, how different dynasties came and built/carved their own buddhist statues into the mountain wall. She explained the different styles of each dynasty. She mentioned Wu Zetian and how she commissioned the Fengxian cave buddha.
At the Shaolin Temple, she talked about the history of the temple, the founder of the temple, how monks live in the temple, etc. We walked through the temple grounds, saw the pagoda forest, and caught the last Shaolin kung fu performance of the day!
My partner and I walked at a fairly fast pace on that hot day, and she was good enough to keep up with us. She was also kind enough to search up information for my climb on Mount Huashan the next day while they were driving us back to the train station!
I highly recommend getting this tour. It will make things so much easier. I had originally tried to plan this trip by relying on buses and taxis, it would have been too stressful. This was the best tour we had during our trip in China.
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Desislava
Dec 11, 2017
The tour was very well organized... - <p>The tour was very well organized, the guide and the driver met us at the train station andtook us directly to the Shaolin Monastery where we attended the kung-fu show, later we visited the temple side and went to the Pagoda forest. After that we went to the Longmen Grottoes. <br/>
Unfortunately the guide was not very detailed in the information he was giving. In all cases i would recommend the tour because it saves you time but for me it was not fully satisfactory.</p>
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