By XU XIAOxuxiao@chinadaily.自存倉com.cnThe 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 launching a new tour of Shaolin Temple in Henan province, the birthplace of an important school of mar-tial arts, for the coming Nation-al Day holiday in October.Normally, Shaolin Temple’s practice space and living quar-ters are not open to visitors, so most travel agencies in the country only allow travelers to learn martial arts outside the temple.However, Planet Travel now is providing a chance for visi-tors from China and abroad to stay in the temple, eat with the disciples, practice kung fu and be far from the madden-ing crowds during the holiday.In a word, visitors can expe-rience what the life of a martial arts disciple is like.They may not become a mas-ter of Shaolin martial arts at the end of the journey, but at the very least they will come closer to understanding the meaning of real Chinese kung fu.Even without the martial arts training, the three-day holiday option is worth con-sidering as an opportunity leave behind bustling cities for a bucolic refuge like the Shao-lin Temple, said executives of the travel agency.Every morning, visitors can learn from the Shaolin disciples about a Shaolin box-ing art, which is specifically designed for beginners.Th迷你倉新蒲崗 learners may even have the chance to have one-on-one coaching from Shaolin masters.Several foreign disciples have trained or are training currently in the temple.Thus, participants to the Planet Travel’s martial art campaign can have a chance for cultural exchanges.During the three-day holi-day, the participants are not allowed to leave the Shaolin Temple. This might sound a little strict, but gives a chance to breath fresh air.In addition, waking up early in the morning and taking a walk in the mountains that surround the temple will fill visitors with a strong atmo-sphere of martial arts learning because young Shaolin martial art disciples and foreign kung fu fans are almost all over the mountain.Accompanied by Shaolin disciples, the learners can have a visit around the Shaolin tem-ple and its renowned cultural relics, including the hall for 500 arhats and the stone statue of the Bodhidharma.During the visit, the learn-ers can get some knowledge of the Shaolin Temple’s origin, history and architecture.In the evenings, when the Shaolin disciples practice martial arts near the liv-ing quarters of the learners, visitors can join them or just watch and learn.The learners will also watch a live kung fu stage show, with the local landscape as a back-ground and nearly 10,000 per-formers taking part. The pro-duction is made possible by an investment of more than 100 million yuan ($16.3 million).迷你倉出租
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Tour offers visitors rare inside look at famed Shaolin Temple
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