In the following a few useful travel tips for those who always wanted to make the adventurous journey to Shaolin.

    Trip to Shaolin

    The easy way for beginners and non-chinese speakers:

    If you travel for the first time to China, we recommend to fly to Zhengzhou.

    It is important to know that your luggage is not automatically passed on at Beijing airport! You must collect your bags and check in again to your connection flight to Zhengzhou.

    Further on you should go by taxi. At the airport of Zhengzhou thousands of taxi drivers will be happy to drive you anywhere. The communication should still be no big problem here because everyone knows and understands the word "Shaolin".

    The best thing would be to write down the Chinese characters for Shao Lin Si and the price you want to pay.

    The cheap variant for Chinese-speaking cracks:

    Who knows a little bit Chinese and stop at nothing, can try to travel to Shaolin without a connection flight. After your arrival in Beijing you can take taxi to railway station.

    At the railway station in Beijing is one special ticket counter for foreigners, where English is spoken. There you can buy a ticket to Zhengzhou.

    After 8 arduous hours of travel, possibly it is night and you have to look for accomadation because busses to Deng Feng or Shaolin go only by day. The long distance bus station is at the opposite of the railway station.

    There you can buy a bus ticket for 7 Yuan to Deng Feng. The first bus goes at 9:00 o'clock, the last at 16:00 o'clock and after 3-4 hours in an overcrowded bus you will arrive Deng Feng.

    Here you must change the bus and for 2 (or 1 Yuan) Yuan you will be brought to Shaolin.