Travel Briefs

Visitors to the Longmen Grottoes near the city of Luoyang in Henan Province, eastern-central China, now can enter Kanjing Temple, which opened to the public on March 10. 

Kanjing Temple, carved into a limestone cliff more than 1,000 years ago, contains 29 life-sized sculptures of Buddhist monks, now protected behind glass. Since 1953, the public has rarely been allowed into the temple for fear of damage to the artifacts.

The Longmen Grottoes, situated along the Yi River, contain more than 2,300 niches, 2,800 stelae and 100,000 statues carved by Buddhist monks between AD...

Under the Snowdonia Mountains, the world’s longest underground zip-line (and deepest) was opened at Conwy Falls, North Wales, in March 2015 by Go Below Underground Adventures (Snowdonia, Wales, UK; phone +44 1690 710108, www.go-below.co.uk/default.asp).

Of three difficulty levels of treks, the easiest, “Go Below Challenge,” which takes an average of five hours, involves a short drive and hike from base camp (at the junction of the A5 and route B4406) to the mine, an underground boat ride, a zip-line, abseiling, a candle-lit lunch, a waterfall climb and an airshaft climb to the exit...

On Nov. 14, the Obama administration lifted, by executive order, the import limit of $400 on Cuban goods as well as the $100 limit on importing Cuban cigars or alcohol. Travelers now may bring into the US, for personal use, any amount of cigars or alcohol, so long as they declare it at Customs and pay any import taxes. As with bringing items from other countries, the first $800 worth of imported goods is duty-free, with rising tariffs imposed on each additional $1,000 in goods. In addition, individual US states have varying limits on importing alcohol.Because the US embargo on Cuba...