A driver will meet you in your Beijing hotel lobby and take you to Beijing Xi Station. On arrival at Zhengzhou Dong Station, walk toward West Square to meet your driver. Do not leave West Square.
First, enjoy classic martial arts including Shaolin Boxing, staff techniques, imitative boxing, hard qigong and boy skill, and immerse yourself in the imposing aura of Shaolin Kung Fu.
Then visit Shaolin Temple.
Enter the gate of the No.1 Buddhist Temple Under Heaven and check in at the horizontal inscribed board of “Shaolin Temple” handwritten by Emperor Kangxi. Then tour the Heavenly King Hall, Mahavira Hall, Lixue Pavilion and Thousand-Buddha Hall in sequence. Pause to admire the thousand-year foot indentations left by warrior monks practicing martial arts, ancient stone stele carvings and millennium-old ginkgo trees inside the halls, and quietly immerse yourself in the thousand-year Zen spirit of the ancestral home of Chan Buddhism.
Later visit Pagoda Forest. It is the largest ancient pagoda complex in China, home to more than 240 tomb pagodas for eminent monks dating from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. These pagodas vary in height and architectural style with histories of Shaolin Temple.
After the tour, we will take you to Zhengzhou Dong Station for the bullet train to Beijing. On arrival at Beijing Xi Station, walk toward North Square and use Northeast Exit 2 to meet your driver for the transfer back to your hotel.
If you choose option 2 you will visit Sanhuang village with cable car and hiking tour, then we will drop you back to Zhengzhou Dong train station for bullet train to Beijing Xi.