Leshan, China Travel Blogs

Buddha Time (U Can't Touch This)
Aug 21, 2006 (14 photos)

... its possible for same day upgrades rather than the 5 days in some big cities. After an hour and a half we arrived into Leshan's nice new bus station. There wasn't the usual wall of touts, but a hardy bunch of the really persistent types that follow ...

Giant Buddha
Sep 1, 2007 (23 photos)

... to go down and the signs telling you to "Keep Morder", you could be there awhile if you get there any time after noon. Leshan is about 2 hours away from Chengdu so even leaving around 7am we wouldn't get in to see the Buddha until around 10am at best. ...

Journey to the West - III
Oct 12, 2009 (87 photos)

... of modern concrete buildings and dark-roofed houses randomly scattered along the torrential Zheduo River. Kangding is well-known throughout China for a popular Kangding Love Song / 康定情歌. One can see a big sign built of stones ...

Journey to the West - V
Oct 26, 2009 (127 photos)

... Sichuan area in the Kingdom of Qin abundant harvests. The area around Chengdu became one of the breadbaskets of China. This project greatly strengthened the Qin Kingdom because the expanded agricultural output helped to sustain the kingdom’s large ...

A big, wet Buddha
Feb 9, 2008 (22 photos)

... made it eventually.  The giant Buddha was carved into a cliff where three rivers converge in the southern end of Leshan.  Before the Buddha the waters were terribly harsh and attempts to travel on them often resulted in death.  Seeing ...

Leshan Giant Buddha
Sep 1, 2009 (27 photos)

... , thousands of workers had expended their efforts and wisdom on the project. As the biggest carved stone Buddha in the world, Leshan Giant Buddha is featured in poetry, song and story. Facing the river, the Buddha has symmetrical posture and looks which ...

Journey to the West - IV
Oct 12, 2009 (146 photos)

... out another 70 RMB.  I wasn't too impressed with the Buddha; it didn't generate a 90 RMB worth impression. At Leshan, I met XiaoXue and her husband and we travelled together around the Giant Buddha and eventually to Emei Shan Town where we stay at ...

Crouching Carlo, Hidden Yvonne...and a Huge Buddha
Nov 30, 2007 (21 photos)

... to pick up our luggage and made our way to the bus station. Emei, which is only a thirty minute bus ride from Leshan, was our next stop. From there we would be taking an overnight train to Panzhihua to transfer to another bus for our final destination of ...

Pandamonium and supersized relics
Apr 3, 2006 (18 photos)

... their behind munching kilos of bamboo in a sitting, oblivious to the tourists snapping away a mere few metres away. A day trip away at Leshan is the Big Buddha (aka Dafo), at 71m it was carved from the cliff face itself over a 90 year period. I harking ...

GRAND BUDDHA & JIAJIANG THOUSAND BUDDHA CLIFFS
Sep 15, 2007 (73 photos)

We swapped days for this in order for us to be able to see the Panda's ( who prefer their air conditioned rooms) to posing For tourists. Today we visit the Great Buddha, The Thousand Buddha Cliffs an Jiajiang. (have waited years to see them and they ...

Leshan
Apr 9, 2009

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Leshan
Nov 19, 2007 (4 photos)

... told in Nepal and in Tibet that it should be no problem at all to get an extension on it once in mainland China. So here we are, in Leshan, home of the biggest carved Buddha in the world and a set of the most horrible bureaucrats ever to hold a position of ...

Giant Buddha of Leshan
Oct 22, 2008 (8 photos)

... it was another amazing site. We came by bus from Chengdu, about 2 hours, but into one of the 3 bus stations in Leshan, without knowing which one.  After getting sorted we jumped another local bus up to the park where the statue is. The statue ...

Giant Buddha
Oct 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... with a white beard and a coat covered in dragons. David reckoned he was a Kung Fu master! We succeeded with the visa extension and so we have another month in which to explore more of China and get to Hong Kong. After Leshan we headed to Emei Shan.

Leshan and The Giant Buddha
Oct 4, 2007 (15 photos)

Today we headed off on a day trip to see the world's largest seated Buddha called Dafo. He was built at the confluence of the Dadu and Min Rivers in the hope that he would calm the tumultuous rivers and stop the flooding that often happened as a result. ...

The Great Buddha
Jun 29, 2007 (7 photos)

... of the 500 that I was willing to pay, so that was pretty good. The guys were pretty nice, and we had a great time in Leshan. The Buddha is really amazing, first you go up and the first thing you see is his gigantic face, you are right there, you are ...

leshan dafo
Oct 6, 2008

... , expecting to find a bus or boat, but there were no directions to anything! managed to flag a taxi down to take us into Leshan. Halfway there we had to stop as Niamh needed to throw up, to be fair she had been complaining that her tummy hurt most of the ...

feed me
Oct 23, 2005 (3 photos)

... in Leshan. Jessica is an L.A. transplant from Boston, and we spent the entire day chatting and searching for vegetarian food. Leshan's Buddha statue is the largest in the world, and we snapped photos from both a river boat and the walking trail down the ...

Giant Buddhas and Tiny Wangs
Apr 12, 2009 (5 photos)

... Alastair and James back home to Yibin and Jon and I planned for our last day. We decided we would check out Dafo in Leshan, home to the worlds biggest stone Buddha, and worlds 2nd biggest stone sculpture. That evening was pretty amusing. We met up with ...

Giant Buddha
Nov 19, 2007

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The great Buddha in Leshan
Sep 25, 2006 (7 photos)

... of having to have a shower and get dressed and eat something and go out, was just too much! Today we travelled to Leshan which is approximately two hours away from Chengdu. Leshan is famous for the Great Buddha. It is carved from stones and it stands at ...

Thursday in the Big Buddha House
Mar 22, 2006 (4 photos)

... and head to Leshan. We off loaded some more weight from our bags, discarding clothes that we didn't really need. The trip to Leshan started with a 3 and a half hour bus ride back to Lijiang, another 7 hour bus ride to Panzhihua and then catching a 11 hour ...

The largest Buddha in the world.
Oct 11, 2007 (5 photos)

There's not much to Leshan itself but it has the largest Buddha in the world so I had to go take a peek. Grand Buddha Facts: - Largest in the world at 71m high. - His ears are 7m long. - They say you could picnic on the nail of his big toe - the toe ...

Organizovany vylet za Velkym Buddhou
Aug 12, 2009

Rano si nas vyzvedla v 6.30 pani s turistickym mikrobusem a dostali jsme za ukol pamatovat si jeho cislo. Chvili trvalo nez jsme se vymotali z Chengdu a nabrali vsechny ucastniky. Jeli jsme do Leshanu asi 2 hodiny. My jsme se snazili spat. Pani celou ...

Mecha-Bouddha
Oct 24, 2009 (5 photos)

C'etait la derniere journee de ce trip. Derniere destination: Leshan. Arrives dans la ville, la premiere aventure a ete de trouver comment se rendre au site du Grand Bouddha. On commence par prendre l'autobus 13 pour se rendre a une des portes, ...

Ohh My, You are a Big Boy
Sep 20, 2004 (7 photos)

... that has been carved out of a cliff face at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers, just outside Leshan. He's 71m tall, his shoulders are twenty-eight metres wide and his smallest toenail is large enough to easily accommodate a seated ...

big, but not huge bodha
Aug 1, 2009 (9 photos)

לשאן, כמו כל העיר הסיניות טומנות בחובן קסם נ ...

BIG Buddha
Oct 3, 2009 (14 photos)

Day trip to Leshan
Feb 2, 2008 (69 photos)

... the road. The short version of the story is that our 2 hour bus ride took more than 6 hours and we finally arrived in Leshan around 3:15 pm. We had planned to spend the day in the town and hiking around the Giant Buddha. Now our time here was brief ...

Le plus grand Buddha du MONDE à Leshan
Apr 23, 2008 (19 photos)

... . D'ici là, il nous est formellement interdit de quitter Chengdu! Oui, oui !...Surement!... Nous partons dès le lendemain matin pour Leshan, à 2 heures de car de Chengdu. Leshan doit sa renommée à son Buddha. Le plus grand Buddha du MONDE !!!! Il fut érigé au ...