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...

Guests at Anan­tara Angkor Resort (National Road no. 6, Khum Svay Dangkom, Siem Reap, Cambodia; phone +855 63 966 788, angkor.anantara.com) can book a guided dawn tour of Angkor Wat Archaeological Park followed by breakfast at a secluded temple. Guests are then free to explore the complex, with its ninth- to 15th-century temples, the rest of the day.

The “Breakfast at Angkor” excursion costs $135 for two people and can only be booked at the hotel after check-in. The cost for a double room at the resort ranges from $170 to $422 per night.

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...