Wutaishan
Travel Blogs from Wutaishan, China
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Hanging Monastery
... half-house, half-cave. The complex is located at the foot of Mt. Hengshan, which is one of the five "Sacred Mountains" in China...an old Emperor first visited the mountain circa 2372 BC. Anyway we arrive and its quite a site to see this old monastery ...
Monky Magic
... drops, he seemingly delighted in overtaking on blind corners. As long as you beep your horn profusely, anything goes on the roads in China! It was the longest four hours of our mums' lives. We arrived, resisted the urge to kiss the ground, and went about ...
Holy mountain
... . We had expected to spend around 15 yuan into temples today but the entrance fee was 216. Sneaky sneaky. Typical of Tourist Trap China. We'd no choice but to pay. The bus station was inside the village and the nearest town the other direction at the ...
hodinovy hotel,budha, smelina
... zavirat. Ale nakonec nas nikdo neobtezoval a dockali jsme se v klidu a miru dalsiho slunneho rana. Story 4: duchovni procitnuti ve Wutaishan Druhy den jsme navstivili mnoho krasnych klasteru ve Wutaishan- napr. Louhou temple, Tayuan temple (kde byli ...
Wutaishan - Buddha na korbe
Den jsme zacali zmenou brlohu, nas domaci byl vydriduch a Adelu budili od 6ti rano auta na "magistrale". Nabidkova cena noveho bydleni byla Y400, po kratsim smlouvani skoncila na prijemnych Y240 za noc. Po ubytovani jsme vyrazili na horskou turu na North ...
Frozen up in the mountains!
Wutaishan was one of our greatest disasters to date.Hee and there's been a few. I booked a hostel which gave directions to Wutaishan bus station but was in fact in Nanning- a whole other provence. Oops. Pretty place, once we'd finally checked into ...
2 Parts Buddhism, Add 3 Parts Capitalism, Stir
... a little strange all of a sudden, but found a great German couple that I travelled with to the next stop... Wutaishan Wutaishan was 1) not on my original itinerary, and 2) AMAZING. Its this little monastic village in the mountains, originally home ...
Visite de Wutai Shan (une autre montagne sacree)
Des nouvelles depuis Wutai Shan! Wow, Banff et Lake Louise peuvent bien aller se cacher, les montagnes ici sont malades (meme si elles sont pleines de charbon et que l'air est irrespirable!). C'est un petit village en creux de vallee entre 5 ...
Clean air and solitude
... to be anything of the fairground atmosphere that seems to surround anything that might be of possible interest to anyone in China (people selling brightly coloured junk for extortionate prices, tour guides, 'english students' that sort of thing), though ...
Datong - WuTaiShan
... in the market, some terrible food and the most beautiful, friendly Monk who invited us to listen to him playing his flute we had had a magicaly experience in WuTaiShan and were seriously comtemplating giving Buddhism a whirl we were ready to ...
Wutai Shan
... vier uur door valleien omgeven door bergen. Ik wist dat ik al een zeldzame verschijning was gezien het feit dat er geen toeristen in Wutaishan waren maar mijn reis naar Pingyao zou me nog meer het gevoel geven dat ik een alien was die uit de ruimte op ...
Wutaishan
Wutaishan and its orange christmas threes all over the mountains...and its many temples as well ...
Temple Mountain
29 June Ich hab zwar schon gelesen, dass an diesem Ort die Haeufigste Tempelansammlung in ganz China ist, aber ich haette nicht gedacht, dass jeder nur wegen den Tempeln hier hin faehrt. Ich wollte doch eigentlich wandern gehen. Aber da war ich ...
The heavenly mountains that go into the sky
We got off the bus at the north gate ticketing office. The ticket was pretty pricey, but thankfully, Tina received her student dicount. No senior discount for me, though. We also had to buy a bus ticket, which allowed us unlimited ...
Day 1; Send off from the Great Wall
... house parts of the Great Wall rarely visited by tourists. At the end of the day we arrive in the magnificent village of Taishan. This is the centre of the important Buddhist area of Wutaishan, which boasts many temples and monasteries. Yindu Hotel 520 km ...
Wutaishan
Wutaishan is a holy mountain where Buddhists go to on pilgrimage. It was impressive to see so many monks come ...
tempels, tempels en........ tempels
... tempels was ook niet echt verrassing. wutai shan bestaat uit vijf toppen die zowat de heiligste boedhististich bergeketen in in china uitmaken. het is een klein behoorlijk toeristisch dorpje omringd door bergen en heuvels. de busrit er naartoe deed al ...
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