Jia Zhou Binguan Leshan

... surging in the river from annual runoff from the Minshan m ountain range destroyed property and killed people. So an official in the Kingdom of Qin named Li Bing decided to build an artificial levee in the river to control the flooding. It is said that he received money for the crucial project from King Zhao of Qin and utilized tens of thousands of laborers. King Zhao sought to strengthen his kingdom and conquer the kingdoms around him.
After its completion ...

... mal... mais c'est pas le temps d'abandonner. On se hisse jusqu'au Bouddha.

Bon, qu'est-ce que ce fameux Bouddha? C'est une enorme sculpture gravee a meme la face d'une montagne. Voyez les photos pour comparer la taille de la statue a la taille des gens. On commence par l'admirer a la hauteur de sa face, puis on descend, pas par le chemin normal parce que la fille bresilienne nous a conseille de ...

... place. In any case, we got to see the lovely Pandas, the black and white ones and the Red Pandas as well. The higlight was probably seeing the nursery which had 3 very young pandas; one in an incubator and the other two in a huge bed (no photos were allowed).

I am currently reading Gao Xingjian's "Soul Mountain" for which received the Nobel Price in Literature in the late 80's. In the book, he (as the narrator of the story) is out collecting cold arrow ...

... 10 RMB for it. This was the cheapest place I have stayed so far in China. The downside was that I shared the dorm room with a bunch of Tibetan drivers who were talking, smoking and playing cards until shortly after midnight. But then again, for 10 RMB one can't complain. There is a new guesthouse opposite the monastry opening up, so there will be some choice in Tagong. ;-)

Tagong in Tibetan means 'the favourite place of the bodhisattva'. Some 110 km ...

... 1489;ה פחות, ונמצא על אחד האיים. כל האי הוא אבן חול בורדו, יחד עם המבני 01; האפור 97;ם והעצי 01; ה ...

... However, while I was in hot and muggy Chengdu, it was really hard to believe that this would ever be the case! Anyway, I got on the bus tired, grumpy and without breakfast. The guide was difficult for me to understand because of his accent, which is fine because it is good listening practice for me, but did not improve my mood any and made it difficult for me to stay awake while he was babbling on about Sichuan. I felt a sudden deep feeling of empathy with my students who have to ...

We woke at 6 am to watch the sunrise at elephant bathing pool. But it was as expected too cloudy to see any sun at all. So we snapped some pictures and went to bed again. We walked from the temple at about nine. After discovering about 20 monkeys outside, we bought one walking stick each (all chinese had one). It worked very well, after hitting it in the ground a couple of times the monkeys got ...

... and fade in front of his very tired eyes. He gave us a business card that had a picture of him from his golden days. He used to be an important man, head of cultural relics and antiquities in Shanghai, and a professor in his time. The entrance 'fee' was 5yuan, thats 50p. I did not think that this price was justified and gave them 20yuan instead. They understood exactly what this meant to me and seemed genuinely touched that a foreigner actually had a heart ...

... your actually above the clouds....soooo beautiful to look out onto the sea of cloud...theres also a beautiful temple right at the top which you can only see for 5 mins before a big cloud comes over to engulf it...the walk on the way was full of stunning scenary dotted by the odd monastery and food shack here and there...because the walk was so far we had to stay the night at a monastery....which was a crazy experience!....with ...

... which was sad. I still found I would eat some things. Some people then went higher to see more monkeys, but i started to head for the bus and ended up chilling buy the river for a long time. It was really cold but I stuck my feet in any way. It was finally the peaceful place I was looking for. My pictures have a lot of Elephants and a lot of Water in them. But I hope you enjoy them. Since then I have been doing school work and teaching and the like. Just more normalcy in Chengdu.