Source: wikitravel
Songshan National Park is located in Henan Province.
Understand
Song Shan is one of the five sacred Daoist Mountains. The national park is also home to something very Buddhist in nature - Shaolin Temple and the art of Kung Fu. Within the National park is the small town of Dengfeng, home to the area's accommodations and food establishments.
Get in
The park is about two hours from Zhengzhou. It's an easy day trip. Bus leave opposite the train station every 20-30 minutes all morning. Be warned: many of the bus tickets are actually tours, that may spend most of the day at auxilary sites or eating lunch instead of the Shaolin complex. These tours do not include entrance fees. Try to make sure you're going on a direct bus, or hire a van, if you want to see it on your own. From bus station take bus no 1 to the end and hop on bus 8. Costs 3 yuan instead of 30 with tourist bus.
See
Gaocheng Guanxing Tai - earliest surviving observatory in China
Shaolin Temple (Shaolin si), also known as Shaolin Monastery, is a Buddhist temple where China's most famous martial art was born
Shaoshi Shan - area's tallest peak at 1512 meters above sea level
Songyue Pagoda - oldest surviving brick pagoda in China
Wuru Feng - location of the cave where Damo meditated
Zhongyue Miao - largest Daoist temple complex in Henan Province
Do
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