PreeChina · Sight Guide
5 sights within 94 km of Zhengzhou. Pick the ones you want and PreeChina can build a private, custom or tailor-made tour around them.
At a Glance
Price
Per person, in US dollars. The price covers the guide, the ground service, and the transport, meals and tickets in the itinerary, and it falls as the group grows. What a price includes and leaves out.
| Travelers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day trip | USD 305 | USD 220 | USD 185 | USD 175 | USD 160 | USD 155 | USD 145 | USD 135 |
Premium hotels and first-class rail raise the price: the selectors on Private Tours show by how much. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Why These Sights
5 temple and sacred site sights lie within 94 km of central Zhengzhou, from Tongmengshan King Wu Temple at 59 km to White Horse Temple at 93 km. They are: Tongmengshan King Wu Temple, Zhongyue Temple, Yue Fei Temple, Zhuxian Town, Shaolin Temple, White Horse Temple.
This page lists the sights and how far each one sits from the city centre. It does not set a length for the trip: your private itinerary decides which sights to combine, the order and the number of days.
The Zhengzhou city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Zhengzhou. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
59 km from central Zhengzhou, straight line
Tradition says King Wu of Zhou gathered the lords here and swore the oath to attack the Shang. Eastward from here lies the Muye battlefield.
60 km from central Zhengzhou, straight line
Where rulers made offerings to Mount Song, the Central Sacred Mountain. The surviving layout follows a Qing-dynasty rebuild modelled on the plan of the Forbidden City, and the complex is the largest Daoist group of buildings in the Central Plains.
60 km from central Zhengzhou, straight line
After Yue Fei beat the Jin army at Zhuxian Town, twelve gold tablets recalled him, and this battle ended his northern campaign.
68 km from central Zhengzhou, straight line
The ancestral temple of Chan Buddhism. Tradition says Bodhidharma travelled north from Guangzhou and faced a wall behind the temple for nine years, which founded the school. His memorial pagoda stands at Kongxiang Temple in Shaanzhou, Sanmenxia, so the two places mark two ends of one life.
93 km from central Zhengzhou, straight line
Built by imperial order in the Yongping years of the Eastern Han. Two Indian monks, Kasyapa Matanga and Dharmaratna, translated the Sutra of Forty-Two Sections here and lie buried in the temple.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tongmengshan King Wu Temple | Historic Temple | 59 km |
| 2 | Zhongyue Temple | Temple | 60 km |
| 3 | Yue Fei Temple, Zhuxian Town | Historic Temple | 60 km |
| 4 | Shaolin Temple | Buddhist Temple | 68 km |
| 5 | White Horse Temple | Buddhist Temple | 93 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Zhengzhou. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 5 stops yourself keeps the budget lower. It also means booking each one and the transfers between them. Compare a private tour with independent travel, or ask PreeChina to plan it.
Custom Tour
This route is a starting point: 1 day and 5 stops. PreeChina plans it as a private, tailor-made trip and changes the stops, the days and the pace to your group.
Questions
This page lists 5, all within 94 km of central Zhengzhou in a straight line.
Tongmengshan King Wu Temple, at 59 km from the centre in a straight line.
93 km in a straight line. The road distance is longer.
It depends on which sights you combine. Your private itinerary sets the number of days, the order and the pace with you.
Anyone who wants a full day at one place. The route moves between 5 stops, so the visit at each is shorter.
Explore More
This route is in Henan. The province page lists its city guides, themes, museums and other routes.
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