Private day tour from Xi'an to Luoyang Longmen grottoes and Shaolin temple

Itinerary
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Stop At: 西安东站货场, Xincheng, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Today our Chinese driver will pick you up from your hotel lobby in Xian city and drop you to Xi'an Bei train station, note we will choose morning train so driver will pick you up early in the morning to Luoyang city , your train journey is around 1hour and 24 minutes.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Longmen Grottoes, Banks of Yihe River, Luolong District, Luoyang 471000 China

Meet guide at Luoyang Longmen train station and transfer to Longmen grottoes.
Longmen Grottoes which are along the banks of the Yi River, 13kms away from Luoyang. The grottoes were started around the year 493 when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang and were continuously built for 400 years until the Northern Song Dynasty. In November 2000, it was listed as World Culture Heritage by UNESCO. There are 2345 grottoes, 2800 tablets, 70 pagodas and over 100000 statues carved.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Monastero Shaolin (Shaolin Temple), Songshan Mountain, Dengfeng 450000 China

After Longmen grottoes you will transfer to Shaolin temple by road about 1.5 hours.
haolin temple was built in 495 AD in northern Wei dynasty, in order to arrange the residence for the Indian Monk Batuo so Emperor Xiaowen built the temple for him. It’s the birth place of China Kongfu and Zen Buddhism, many people from all over the world like to watch Kongfu Show along with the temple, and I believe that you will have impressive memory for the Kongfu show in the theater in shaolin temple.
After tour we will drop you to Luoyang train station for bullet train to Xi'an.

Duration: 2 hours