China - Luoyang - Day 15
| Stayed | Qichi Waterfront B&B Hotel (洛阳栖迟水岸宾馆) | No. 5, Tongtuo Muyu Pedestrian Street, Dongguan Street, Zhanghe District(洛阳瀍河回族区铜驼暮雨 5 号楼) |
| Travel | Walking | 10.4 km |
Today was mostly about kung fu.
We started at a martial arts-based boarding school and had a painful lesson with two teens. When we left, we were walked by some of the 40,000 students in outdoor assembly. It was wild.
Then, we went to Songyang Academy, a former Confucian school that educated many important people over the centuries. Songshan is a UNESCO Global Geopark and one of the five sacred mountains in China.
Lunch was noodles at a Muslim shop.
We spent the afternoon was spent at the Shaolin Temple and Pagoda Forest. The temple was very commercial, but the martial arts display was impressive. The pagodaa Forest was neat,wit dozens of mini pagodas for influential monks.
The Shaolin Temple and its Pagoda Forest were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. Believed to have been founded in the 5th century, the Shaolin Temple consists of a complex rebuilt in the 20th century adjoined to a Pagoda Forest. The temple complex, with its picturesque gardens, is pleasant to stroll in. While the buildings are similar to many others in China, the unique Pagoda Forest is perhaps the most interesting part of the Shaolin Temple. The Pagoda Forest, about 0.19 miles (300 m) from the complex, was a burial ground for eminent monks in the long history of the temple. Each pagoda holds a tomb and there are so many scattered close together that the site resembles a forest. What makes the Shaolin Temple extremely famous in China and abroad is its Shaolin Kungfu, one of the largest and best-known sects of Chinese Kungfu
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