This stunning aerial footage of a giant car park packed with vehicles reveals the jaw-dropping amount of visitors that filled a tourist site in China during the country's National Day celebrations.

Images captured on October 1, the first day of celebrations, show hundreds of vehicles across the vast parking at the Shaolin Temple in Zhengzhou, in Henan Province.

The breathtaking scene, filmed from above, shows countless sedans, SUVs and tourist busses arranged in an orderly and dense manner.

The front and rear of the cars were so close together that it created a complex and intricate flow of vehicles that took up every empty corner of the car park. Another piece of footage, captured five days later on October 6, seems to show that interest in the temple had not decreased as the parking was as full as the week before.

The Shaolin Temple is a Buddhist monastery that was founded under the Wei emperor Xiaowendi in 495 and is considered to be the birth place of Shaolin Kung Fu.

As a deeply historic Buddhist temple in China, Shaolin Temple attracts numerous visitors every year, and during the National Day holiday, the excitement reportedly reaches its peak.