E'Meishan Grand Hotel Emeishan

... the highly developed bronze civilization of the Kingdom of Shu in the middle and later period of Shang Dynasty and its unique charms. The articles are precious for their value in studies. Also excavated from the Sanxingdui ruins are the world’s two earliest gold wands, which are 1.42m in length and 700g in weight, with human heads, fishes, and birds carved on them.The sacrificial pits are believed to be sites for the ancient Shu people to offer sacrifice ...

... les chevaux qui servaient a monter des trucs. Mais les charges etaient ridicules, genre une beche avec deux paniers remplis de briques. On aurait eu beau dire que descendre les escaliers aurait ete beaucoup plus facile, mais finalement ca frappait fort pareil, differemment. <br><br>On y est parvenu, et l'autobus nous a monte vers notre nouveau point de depart. En recommencant a monter par contre, je me rendais compte que je ne pouvais pas exactement appeler ...

... on commence a paniquer. Selon les temples et monasteres qu'on croise qui sont sur la carte, l'ascension va beaucoup plus lentement qu'on ne l'aurait cru. L'energie se fait aussi gober rapidement, car l'angle de montee est souvent gigantesque, toujours entre 45 et 70 degres. On a maintenant compris que c'etait impossible de se rendre au sommet, faute de temps. J'aurais vraiment voulu relever ce defi, mais il y avait une schedule a suivre, des avions a prendre pour ...

<br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br>As usual, despite our good<br>intentions, we were the last ones up. I didn't feel too bad about<br>this given that we were up before 8. Got a bus to our starting point<br>(we were technically taking the short route) and set off up the<br>endless flights of steps. We'd decided that the short route wasn't<br>going to be exciting enough and on the recommendation of an Israeli<br>guy in the hostel we took a more convoluted route around the back of<br ...

... outside and down a long, evil smelling path. The toilets themselves were not only squatties (not a problem usually) but were direct drop into the earth. <br><br>Showers were out of the question. But we did wash our very tired feet in buckets of hot water.By this time we had gathered a very fine Chinese friend. The three of us sat there on the balcony of the temple watching the fantastic stars with two buckets of water. Carl ...

... marine animals dying out and was probably caused by either massive volcanic eruptions in an area known as the Siberian traps, a meteorite impact or both. 'This less well-known mass extinction has been hiding in the shadow of the well-known Permian-Triassic extinction,' says Wignall. Volcanism, Mass Extinction, and Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China Paul B. Wignall et al Science 29 May 2009, Vol. 324. no. 5931, pp. 1179 - 1182 DOI: 10.1126/science.1171956

... was inside and pointing towards the passengers. There were very few English-friendly places to stay, so we went with the guidebook recommendation, staying at the Teddy Bear Hotel. It was being renovated and stank of varnish. It was easy to wake up as the varnish was applied to the hallway at 7AM which caused our bodies to convulse and our breathing to become shallow, and just in case any sleepy heads on our hall slept ...

... Most of the monkeys ignored us (including a cute little baby) but one large male suddenly launched himself onto David, clinging onto his bag. David tried to shake him off, but it did not work, so I hit the monkey with a stick of bamboo. I felt quite bad about this because I don't want to hurt the wildlife, but otherwise he looked like he might bite. After a long day and a 22km walk we went back to the hotel for sweet and sour pork. Tomorrow we are leaving for the Bamboo Sea.

... get a ferry down the river to look at the Dafo, but the taxi driver couldn't find it.In the end told him just to go straight there. When we arrived he asked for 800RMB which shocked me! When he had originally said the price I thought he had said 800 but whenn he wrote it down it was more like a 2. Couldn"t do much about it so paid up and just about had enough to pay our entrance in to see the Dafo.