Education Hotel Leshan

... a string of other titles including that of a National Geological Park, a AAAA Class Scenic Spot in China and a Green Globe 21.

With some of the most beautiful and inspiring scenery on earth and some of the reserves scenic spots considered holy by the local Tibetan and Qiang people, it is no wonder a number of mysterious legends surround the wonderful landscape of Jiuzhaigou. Many people are drawn to the area for these reasons, and with the park open all ...

... east of Leshan City, at the confluence of three rivers, namely, Min River, Qingyi River, and Dadu River. In December, 1996, the location of the Buddha was included by UNESCO on the list of the World Heritage sites. Begun in the year 713 in the Tang Dynasty, and finished in the year 803, the statue took people more than 90 years to carve. During these years, thousands of workers had expended their efforts and wisdom on the project. As the biggest carved stone ...

... Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The fairly large town is cradled in a steep valley with a collection 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 that states "Kangding, home of the Kangding Love Song". So the first thing I did after arriving at the ...

... come to take a few quick snaps, rush through the place and leave again. I’m actually writing this from 35,000 feet somewhere over Russia and was just talking to the woman next to me about the suprising lack of spirituality in China. She, and several other people, said after seeing India she was expecting the people in China to have more faith and religion but they really don’t seem to, I guess much like England in a way.
We were there for a few hours and explored the ...

... 1503; הזה חשבתי, במדינ 92; שאין בה אדם אחד עם תלתלי 01; איך יוצרי 01; פסל של אלוהי 01; עם תלתלי 01;? מה ...

... personality-wise with a Buddhist monk/disciple, or whatever a rohan is. While the others in the group went off to Emeishan, I changed buses and headed back to Chengdu, determined to relax on Wednesday. I was completely surprised to find a Face Shop (nice Korean company selling beauty products, not tested on animals and advocating equal opportunity projects in South Korea, which, if their soap operas are anything to go by, are definitely needed!) in the middle of Chengdu near where I got ...

... the bag for some napkins but they monkeys instead ran up a tree to have the bag for them selves.
So now we are spendong the night at elephant bathing pool with no camera bag and monkeys sneaking around everywhere.
Our original plan to go all the way up to the top of the mountain today was abandoned after the monkey attack, and tired feet.
We'll try to see the sunrise tomorrow, although it will probably be too foggy.

... just 25 yuan. Still over priced, as it should have cost 15. But it was that, or waste an hour waiting for the bus, and we had no time to waste. The entrance cost to the Buddha and the surrounding attractions cost 120 yuan...each. But I didn't mind forking out. It was a hell of a walk to the Buddha. We had to go up mountains, and down them again, and then across cliff paths, and down more steps, over a few bridges, and finally, we saw its head sticking ...

... it makes it feel almost sterotypically heavenly with the blanket of cloud and blue skies! further down the mountain we wondered round taking in the blend of woodland and architecture and unfortunatley tourist stalls every 10 feet along with the occasional violent, and frisky monkeys. grose little things! so another great experience that makes me love China even more, and the food was still bloody good too, tho a lot spicer in this province! that said i was off to Xi'an, the ancient capital.

... of abandoning our plans, we decided to start at 6:30 am. Unfortunately, we had a bad map and wasted an hour and a half walking the wrong way at the start, or we would have easily made it. I remember my Chinese tutor at Valpo last year telling me about this place and how you could take pictures with monkeys standing on your head or posing on your arm, which, considering my long-time fascination with monkeys, made this a must-see. She also ...