Emei, China Travel Blogs

Emei-zing!
May 3, 2007 (35 photos)

... with me, but he had to visit family in Australia during this vacation. Of course, there's three other holy Buddhist mountains in China to climb...next time, maybe I should practice a little first. And get a better map. But I'll definitely bring my cane ...

Chengdu to Emei Shan
Aug 11, 2007 (62 photos)

Unfortunately, due to the fact that Nic has waffled for ages on this blog, the pictures will not show as thumbnails at the top as they normally do.  To view the piccies, all 62 of them, go to the bottom where the postings are listed and click on the ...

Hanging Around
May 13, 2006 (1 photos)

With not a lot to do in Emei when not climbing mountains (although I realized today that we weren't in Emei town itself actually but Baoguo Village just down the road) we passed the time till the train was due to leave just messing around and talking while ...

Monks, Monkeys and Mountains
May 11, 2006 (4 photos)

... a little harsh as the rest of the hotel is spotlessly clean and the staff ever helpful. Anyway today we set off to climb Emei Shan one of the Middle Kingdom's four famous Buddhist mountains but from reading some of the messages left my past climbers in ...

No Way!
May 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... news was as expected with little to see unless you loved fog and cloud so we took the next bus back to the hotel. Now China is big and I've been traveling for over a month around it covering 1000s of kilometers as I hopped from place to place so the ...

One Big Buddha
May 10, 2006 (5 photos)

... us off at what we were told was the entrance to the Big Buddha but as we were about to purchase our entry tickets (China really is the land of the admission ticket where even the smallest park often has a entry fee attached) we were told the entrance fee ...

Exploring the holy mountain
Jun 16, 2005 (5 photos)

... paths took us away from the crowds (thank goodness!) and into the heart of the wonderfully lush forests on the flanks of Emei Shan. HongChunPing seemed restful and quiet, afloat in a sea of green; but the place got busier as sunset approached: hundreds of ...

The Climb
Apr 18, 2006 (26 photos)

... along the trail. We started our hike through beautiful forests and along a flowing river. It was the most peaceful place in China, until we hit Monkey Way. Here there were a bunch of Monkeys looking for food, of course the Chinese Government was selling ...

Damn You're Old
Apr 17, 2006 (14 photos)

... thought I would be excited about having two eggs and some bread for breakfast on my Birthday, but how things change when you are in China. We got up early and met up with Dale from Wales who has the same Birthday as me (Don't tell anyone but he is 10 ...

Mad Monkey Monastaries in the Mist
Jul 16, 2005 (23 photos)

... famed for it's hot-hot-hot food, and we had a few horse's helpings of that before making our pilgrimage to the sacred Emei Shan Mountain. This mountain is covered from top to bottom in Buddhist monastaries, and by the looks of it, a permanent thick layer ...

Monks and monkeys
Nov 1, 2007 (27 photos)

... The next morning I went down the mountain on a five hour trek with the girls and Zebedee.  He gave us some fascinating insights into China, and took us to an infant school on the way.  We helped out the locals by pushing a car up the hill. That ...

Emei Shan
Jun 16, 2006 (21 photos)

Went climbing holy Buddhist mountain

The Enchanting Emei
Mar 23, 2006 (10 photos)

... jeans! We took a short trip into Emei Town and kitted ourselves out for the climb, thankfully clothing is pretty cheap in China. That evening we bumped into a lone traveller who was almost instantly magnetised to our witty charm! Dario, an Italian Tree ...

Stairs, stairs, and more stairs
Jun 17, 2006 (9 photos)

... the Teddy Bear Hotel and our room was about $11 a night.) Our purpose of coming here was to hike Mt. Emei, one of the five sacred mountains here in China, and about 3,052 meters high. A lot of people take a bus to the upper portion of the mountain and ...

Emei Shan - week 2
Aug 20, 2007

... local men as short, ugly but easily controllable Sat -  leave Chengdu - bus to giant buddha, avg, arrive Emei Shan monastery, Patrick and great food Sun -  bus and cable car to another buddha, monorail, relentlless scaremongering about ...

Getting High is Easier than I Thought
Sep 22, 2004 (8 photos)

... going, on this trip at least. So what of Emei Shan? Well it's a holy mountain, one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. It's also the tallest of the four, its Golden Summit topping out at 3077m (10,000ft), and if you were to assume, because of ...

Man Down!!
May 4, 2007 (16 photos)

Emei Shan (mountain) is one of the 4 holy Buddhist mountains in China and stands at 3077 metres. The perfect training for us on our way to Tibet! 2 hours on a bus from Chengdu with the most suicudal prick for a driver,& ...

Mount Emei
Nov 16, 2005 (5 photos)

... way up was fantastic and we drove for 2 hours up through the cloud layer and then it started to snow! We knew the weather in China was going to be cold but hadn't really prepared for snow up a mountain it was now we thought this was going to be a chilly ...

Emei Shan
Jul 4, 2007 (11 photos)

Our only reason for visiting Emei town was to climb a mountain. Emei Shan stands at 3099m at its peak. We climed to the Golden Summit which is at 3077. Day 1 - we left at 8am roughly and I am embarassed to say that we only started on the mountain ...

The unhappiest room in the world
Oct 31, 2007

... , the unhappiest room in the world.  Our local guide for the Yangze River once told us that he called the toilets in China, Happy Rooms.  Well we are in the monastry in Emei Shan and we have discovered the unhappiest rooms in the world ...

Emei Shan
Mar 8, 2007

Emei Shan

Climbing Emei Shan
Aug 17, 2005 (3 photos)

... "Teddy Bear" and relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. Our objective was to climb one of the 4 sacred mountains (shan) of China and stay at the top to see the sunrise. That evening we found a nice street with outdoor restaurants displaying food and had ...

Emei Shan - area in the mountains
Nov 17, 2007 (11 photos)

... surprisingly good, the highway is really good. I don't remember this good infrastructure, but then again apparently the whole of china is really changing quickly and everything is improving. They use about 40% of the world's cement. It is really impressive ...

Leshan Budda and Emei Mountain
Oct 14, 2006 (10 photos)

... 9 o'clock so an early night. Tuesday, October 17th Unnice bus ride to Yangtzee River Well if the first day in Emei was one of the best days in China this was the worst. First of all woken up at 04.30 by the monks and cannot get back to sleep. Have ...

Emei Shan
Nov 24, 2006 (6 photos)

Mt Emei is a UNESCO site and is one of the five sacred mountains in China.  Quick - what are the other 4 mountains?  I don't know either.   The weather this morning was overcast again.  I wasn't sure if I should try the hike or just ...

66 000 stairs to Heaven (or Hell?)
May 18, 2006 (12 photos)

... of the 4 holy mountains for Chinese Buddhists. The mountain is also a national park, and hosts some of the oldest monasteries in China and... wild monkeys! 8AM on 16th May - our loooong way up begins - all monasteries are linked to each other by carved ...

Mount Emei Shan
May 4, 2007 (4 photos)

Near to Chengdu is the 3,077 meter Mount Emei, which according to legend can be climbed easily in just two days.  Accompanied by Dan and Holly, who were also stuck in Chengdu waiting until it was possible to travel to Tibet, we set ...

I fought the Monkey (and the Monkey Won)
Oct 13, 2006

We've just gotten down from three days on Emei Mountain, one of the four holy Buddhist Mountains in China. We stayed in monasteries at night, and hiked nine hours a day--over 25 miles altogether. The mountain is inhabited by monkey-devils- they pounced on ...

A bif waste of time really!
Jun 19, 2009 (3 photos)

Nat and Maeve wanted to do a 7hr trek up the mountain but fecked if I was doing that with my Knee (my excuse and im sticking  to it) As it turned out then didnt do it and caught the bus with me. Which is just as well cause if they had of walked up ...

au pied des monts Emei
Dec 9, 2007

2 jours de marche dans les monts bouddhistes d'Emei (Emeishan)