Hongzhu Mountain Hotel Emeishan

... Heaven, Earth, mountains, rivers, and other natural gods. The upright figures and seated figures are respectively prayers and emcees, bronze animal-faced masks with protruding eyes and flat bronze animal-faced masks may be natural gods worshiped by the Shu people; bronze divine trees modeled upon real plants reflect the Shu people&#8217;s religious consciousness of plant worshipping. The discovery of Sanxingdui shocked the world, but the history of the ruins remains a mystery. <br>

... un fresh start. Le nombre de marche a monter pour que ca commence a faire vraiment mal etait le meme qu'a la fin de la veille. La, a ce point la, on percait dans les nuages, c'etait magique. Au debut de l'ascension, les singes etaient de nouveau present. Mais la c'etait pas un crossing, c'etait une foulee melee a travers les gens. Ils volaient carrement, ces petits punks, eux, les sacs des gens pis les foullaient pour de la bouffe. Si quelqu'un protestait ...

... Mais nous allions nous rendre le plus loin possible. <br><br>La noirceur arrivant, nous sommes arrives tres temps-tightement au Monastere de la Longue Vie (environ 1500m d'altitude), qui je crois etait taoiste. Heureux, nous allons y demander gite (pas d'auberges a des kilometres a la ronde, et de toute facon je voulais faire cette experience), sans savoir que les moines pouvaient eux aussi etre des esti de crosseurs. Avec absolument aucun soucis pour le bien de qui ...

... mountain. <br><br><br><br><br>This seemed like a good<br>idea at the time, and in hindsight it was brilliant, but at the time<br>it was pretty painful. Our bag was far too heavy, full of warm<br>clothes we'd been advised to bring but didn't need and we were<br>sweating like,.... well we were very sweaty. On the way we passed the<br>monkey enclosure which was fun although I was kind of hoping one of<br>them would accost Damo. After this the tourists died away and we had<br>miles of ...

... one foot in my bucket and one in the bucket belonging to our chinese friend.<br><br>The next morning at 4:30 we lined up to get on the first cable car to the top. Chinese are not good at lining up. When the doors opened the line broke into a stampede and I thought I might get crushed. Luckily we made it onto the first cable car.<br><br>We sat and waited for the sunrise. At first the bottoms of small clouds were painted ...

... us that the path we walked was an ancient pilgrim's route. The steps continued for ever. For eight hours we climbed them, step after step after step. And the the rediculously steep incline was a killer. I got into a rhythm, 1,2,3, 1,2,3. Place my bamboo stick three steps ahead, take two steps. Repeat. Drenched in sweat, soaked by mist, and breathless, we followed the ...

I've finally made it to Le Shan which was one of the places I had decided to visit when I was back home off the back of seeing a photo of the worlds largest Buddha which has been carved out of a cliff face here and stands 70m + tall. I stepped off the bus to be harrassed by cyclo drivers who didn't speak any English and was rescued by a helpful girl who spoke maybe 5 or 6 words! I spent the afternoon with her and her friends who included 2 policemen, complete with police van ...

... that the hammering and power drill made sure you got an early start on the day. We moved next door to a quiet empty hotel and the owners looked mystified at the fleeing western tourists but happily gave us a room for a deep discount compared to the Teddy Bear. Emie Sham is a mountainous area with something like 100KM of tracks made up of 66,000 steps which take you to temples, caves, waterfalls and monkey forests within the ...

Hi We came to Leshan for the day to visit the giant statue of Buddha....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 temple was carved into the rock and very atmospheric. Then went out through a tunnel and down to a snack bar where we managed to scrape enough money together for three waters and some pot noodles! Then continued up and down many steps through forest and past small shrines untiil we got up to the Dafo's head - the sheer scale of which was really impressive! We the climbed down narrow steep and winding steps to the river and ...