Private Tour: Longmen Grottoes Day Tour from Xi'an to Luoyang via High Speed Train


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  • Private Tour: Longmen Grottoes Day Tour from Xi'an to Luoyang via High Speed Train

Xi'an, China

Trip Type:   Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration:  10 hours
Take the high speed train between Xi'an and Luoyang-Longmen to explore imposing 1500-year old Longmen Grottoes, a World Heritage Site listed by UNESCO in 2000. Discover more than 10,000 Buddha statues extending 1 km (1,093 yards) along Yi River riverbank.

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Take the high speed train between Xi'an and Luoyang-Longmen to explore imposing 1500-year old Longmen Grottoes, a World Heritage Site listed by UNESCO in 2000. Discover more than 10,000 Buddha statues extending 1 km (1,093 yards) along Yi River riverbank.Your guide will meet you at 7:30 a.m. in the hotel lobby and transfer to Xi'an North Railway Station to catch the high speed train to Luoyang-Longmen (approximately 1.5 hours). Upon arrival you will be transferred to a local restaurant for lunch. After lunch you will visit Longmen Grottoes or Longmen Caves - one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art housing tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples. The images were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains.

There are approximately 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The most famous one is the biggest statue of sitting Buddha of 17.14 meter tall. In 2000 the site was inscribed upon the UNESCO World Heritage List as “an outstanding manifestation of human artistic creativity”. You can visit the temple located on the west river bank as well. When the tour is over, you will be transferred to Luoyang-Longmen Railway Station to catch a high speed train back to Xi’an and dropped-off at your hotel.




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