Private Half-Day Longmen Grottoes Walking Tour from Luoyang
- 4–5 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Explore the spectacular Longmen Grottoes on this private walking tour with a private guide. Start your day with a hotel pickup. By choosing a private tour, you’ll have your guide’s more attention and be able to ask questions along the way.
Inclusions
What's included
- Private guide
- Entrance fee
What's not
- Meal
- Transportation
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Meet your private guide in your hotel lobby at your preferred time. Then you will take a bus or cab to Longmen Grottoes, a Buddhist cave complex located 13 kilometers south of Luoyang in Henan province, form some of the most significant and exquisite representations of ancient Chinese stone art. The grottoes were excavated and carved with Buddhist subjects over the period from 493 AD to 1127 AD. The Longmen Grottoes refer to the over 1,400 grottoes and caves dispersed over the Longmen Mountain and Xiang Mountain standing across the Yi River, housing no less than 100,000 Buddhist statues, 2,500 tablets and stelae and other religious-related items. Accompanied by your guide, explore the magnificent Longmen Grottoes and learn the history. Your tour ends here when your guide can help you to find a taxi home or you can continue to visit Longmen Grottoes.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Beijing Tour Guide
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Luoyang
- Its from-price is 51% below the median of the 92 experiences we list in Luoyang.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 17 of 92.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Luoyang
Luoyang, in China's Henan province, is an ancient capital on the Luo River, famous for the Longmen Grottoes, peonies and early Buddhist temples.
Luoyang was a capital under many dynasties, among them the Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han and Tang, on the Luo River plain, south of the Yellow River. The Longmen Grottoes, south of the city, hold thousands of Buddhist statues and inscriptions carved into limestone cliffs above the Yi River, with the giant Vairocana Buddha at the centre. White Horse Temple, founded in the first century AD, is traditionally regarded as the first Buddhist temple in China.
Top-ranked sights in Luoyang: Longmen Grottoes (Longmen Caves), Shaolin Temple (Shaolin Monastery).
