Tour Duration: 10 - 30 day(s) Group Size: 15 - 40 people Specialty Categories: Cultural Journey Yoga & Spiritual Experience Season: January - December Airfare Included: No The Shaolin Monastery is a ...

The movies of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan have helped to kindle a global fascination with Chinese kung fu. Now, tourists will get a chance to take a closer look at where it all began. Planet Travel is ...

WAN Shan Qing had finally arrived. In defiance of his parents and carrying only a blanket, the 13-year-old had traveled more than 900 miles from his home province on the east coast of China to the ...

The hushed silence that descends over the old courtyard inside the Shaolin Temple carries the expectation of something magical. Abbot Shi Yongxin, a rotund Buddhist monk with a shaved head and a ...

Kung Fu's first home is hard to kill. Since it was built in 495 AD, Shaolin Temple, the original home of kung fu and Zen Buddhism, has been attacked and nearly destroyed multiple times. It's survived, ...