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Leshan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Leshan
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Jia Zhou Binguan Leshan
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Golden Summit Hotel Leshan
65 reviews
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Jin Hai Tang Leshan
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Jinye Grand Hotel Leshan
14 reviews
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Xingfa Hotel Leshan
10 reviews
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Education Hotel Leshan
9 reviews
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Baxiandong Hotel Leshan
2 reviews
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Honglilai Hotel Leshan
14 reviews
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Heizhu Gou Hot Spring Hotel Leshan
1 review
Leshan
Travel Blogs from Leshan, China
Buddha Time (U Can't Touch This)
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Tofu is Rubbish
This is a top pick! ... we set off on our first snow-free day excited about seeing another great big Buddha. We reached the ticket office for the Leshan scenic Big Buddha park after 4miles and were just purchasing very expensive tickets (9 pounds) when we met a couple of Spanish ...
Busted by the Cops
This is a top pick! ... as we still had about 30 miles to go and the day was getting on. We averaged 13 miles an hour and arrived in Leshan weary but pleased after a tough work out (our fitness has definitely taken a few steps back over Christmas and New Year). We arrived ...
Giant Buddha
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Journey to the West - III
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
World's Largest Buddha
On my way back to Chengdu I planned to stop at Leshan, home of the World’s Largest Buddha. Joined by two girls from Denmark, and supposedly armed with explicit directions, we somehow ended up on a local bus circling the city before arriving at ...
A big, wet Buddha
This is a top pick! ... like tours and taxis. Ergo, we were up early and making our way to the bus station in an attempt to catch a bus to Leshan, home of the world's most giant Buddha. (This is what Travis delights in calling it and is a reference to JD and ...
Journey to the West - IV
This is a top pick! ... fork 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 ...
Mount Emeishan
... national holiday beginning Oct. 1 I wanted to make sure I conquered Mount Emei, one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, before then. My preference was to hike up the mountain and take available transport down, but as a compromise to walking ...
Leshan Giant Buddha
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Crouching Carlo, Hidden Yvonne...and a Huge Buddha
... to our hotel 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 ...
A Real Big Buddha
... poor night's sleep we collected our things and set about heading to a town 2 hours south of Chengdu to see the Giant Buddha in Leshan. We arrived at the bus station, bought our tickets for the bus ($53 RMB), and were directed to a van…we ...
Pandamonium and supersized relics
... 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 ...
Iloinen Sancai poliisiautossa!
... ei olisi saanut poistua kaupungista, joten paatimme yrittaa onneamme Leshanissa. Saimme Emeilta kyydin Leshaniin Amerikkalaisen herran kuljettajan kyydissa. Leshan pisti ehti paan pyoralle. LP:n kartasta ei ollut mitaan apua: joko se oli vain huono tai ...
Giant Buddha
I went with three people to see the Giant Buddha in Leshan and we had an amazing day. Barbara is rfom Austrailia, Gonzalo is Portugese and Feng Tao is from Shanghai. Feng Tao and I spent the 2+ hour bus journey listening to my ipod - he dabbles in ...
Leshan
... 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 ...
Giant Buddha of Leshan
... ....and 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 ...
Leshan and The Giant Buddha
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. ...
leshan dafo
... bottom, 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 ...
feed me
... Buddha 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 ...
Big bouddha!!!
J'avais le choix entre la visite des pandas ou du plus grand bouddha du monde ! Mon choix a été assez simple męme si le bouddha étai a plus de 2h de bus sans compter les taxis…. Ayant fait une nuit blanche ŕ la suite d’une ...
Giant Buddhas and Tiny Wangs
... 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 ...
Trip to Leshan and Emei Mountain
I was very excited for our group overnight trip which began in Leshan, a semi-close overnight trip which would get better and better as the trip proceeded. I got up and packed my bag and made my way to the east gate of our school and ...
Der grösste Buddah der Welt
... Früh machten wir uns also auf, um den grössten Buddah der Welt zu sehen. Mit dem Bus blochten wir nach Leshan, kriminelleste Fahrweise. Ich hatte echt Schiss. Der in Fels gemeisselte Buddah ist wirklich gigantisch. Das Beigemüse, Dutzende Ministatuen ...
The great Buddha in Leshan
... the thought 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 ...
Thursday in the Big Buddha House
... 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 ...
Hanging out with the World’s Biggest Buddha
... see a lot of Leshan, though we dud witness a live talent show in a park, which seem to be very popular throughout China. The population of Leshan is much lower than Chengdu, and it is far less polluted. It was really nice to walk by the river and in the ...