Emeishan Jinye Hotel

... pour laisser place au shut-eye parfois tant attendu. Le changement d'altitude se fait sentir, baille te deboucher les oreilles. <br><br>Rendu a la station d'autobus la plus proche, nous devons prendre un taxi pour nous rendre en tant que tel a Emei. Un gars avec une van nous aborde. 30 kuai? Non merci, si non 20. D'accord pour 20. Il nous depose apres un voyage d'une certaine longueur devant l'auberge Teddy Bear, qui a un lien tisse tight avec ces conducteurs de van ...

... everywhere as we were in a rain forest type environment. I honestly can't put into words how amazing this part of the hike was.<br><br>A few kilometers later we came to an army of monkeys, ready to ambush. Some snarled, some growled. We beat out our hiking sticks on the path to try and keep them away. As we we're walking ahead, I hear an "AH!" from ...

... and off we went. By the time we went down the trail, all the monkeys were hanging out in the &#8220;Joking Monkey Zone" where they are supposed to be. There, Chinese tourists had a blast feeding them all kind of junk and teasing them. <br><br>I had enough of monkeys, in 3 days I was attacked 3 times by monkeys. This area was crowded with tourists as it was close to Wuxiangang bus station. Most of the Chinese tourists took the bus to the summit or somewhere along ...

... neponese zodpovednost. Vyjeli jsme autobusem do nejvyssi mozne zastavky asi 2500 m n.m. Zbytek vypravy pokracoval nahoru lanovkou a my se pustili do vystupu po schodech.<br><br>Emei Shan je znamy svou nadhernou prirodou. Je zde neobycejna kvetena s nemalym vsktem endemitu. To je bohuzel nejvice videt na jare a na podzim. Druhou mimo nabozenskou atrakci jsou opice - tibetsti makakove - ktere na hore ziji a radne se snazi obrat turisty o batohy. Bohuzel vyskytuji se na ceste v ...

... drinking on the dockside. At 6pm we caught a bus to Emei town with the intention of catching a night train south to Kunming. Thats when things started to go wrong. Bill summed it up in his blog. Check it out. http://www.billwillchina.blogspot.com

... marked the base of Emei Shan, although the integrity of the thing was marred by a tacky plastic crystal set at its center. About the size of a football, and ruby read, it looked like something from an Aztec-themed fairground ride, and alerted us that tourism had probably left its mark on the most sacred Buddhist mountain in the Sechaun province. <br><br>Undeterred, we hoisted our packs and tramped off in the direction of the forest. Within ...

... I don't care if the CK I bought is a cheap copy, it was still an awesome t-shirt because it had Po the Panda from Kung Fu Panda on it! Woo! (I know, I'm childish. In the past 2 months I have also purchased Wall E, Tom and Jerry Box Set, Popeye, among other things on DVD). The last day proved to be the most interesting in Chengdu so far. Alastair got up at 8am and left the other two birdies in bed to sleep off the booze and headed into the city centre. We ...

... Summit. The best part was the 100 people crammed into the gondola, all exclaiming something like "HOLY **** BLUE SKY!" in chinese when the ride burst through the cloud/smog bank into the beautiful crisp heavens. The rest of the golden summit was disappointing - the top of the mountain was paved over in concrete with hundreds of thousands of tourists and tons of garbage littered down the cliff side. We didn't stay long and ...

... and tennis shoes (i had forgotten to bring sandals... again my rush!) and I looked like a tennis player the way that my bottom has a skirt instead of the normal swimming bottoms. We walked over to the spa where most of my male companions purchased a chinese speedo type suit for like 20 &#20803;. Again this made for quite the laugh. So the spa. You enter the main room and give your ticket to the lady behind the desk and in return she gives you a key for a locker. You then go ...

... air in this area was 30% better due to its oxygen levels. We also had a chance to go into the resort's spa and check out the hot springs and pool. They actually had the same flesh-eating fish available at one of their pools as we got to experience at the Erawan waterfalls in Thailand. They charged for their flesh-eating fish a pretty penny - ours was free. The whole area was extremely serene and peaceful. We enjoyed it. The next day we took a cable car up to ...