Jin Hai Tang Leshan

... Dujiangyan system eliminated the flooding and gave the Sichuan area in the Kingdom of Qin abundant harvests. The area around Chengdu became one of the breadbaskets of China. This project greatly strengthened the Qin Kingdom because the expanded agricultural output helped to sustain the kingdom’s large army. Within a few decades, a Qin king named Qin Shi Huang used their large army to become the Emperor of China. It was Qin Shi Huang who built the famous ...

... par le chemin inverse, ce que nous fimes, meme si c'est frown upon. On a donc economiser 1 heure ou plus (la file etait enorme). A ce bas-point, on obtenont probablement la meilleure vue. C'etait grandiose. Tu regardes ca, et tu penses aux moines qui ont fait ca, et tu te dis: "les etres humains c'est though en tabarnak".

Apres la meilleure partie qui etait le debut, nous pouvions avec le billet voir ...

... the main food source for giant pandas, with a botanist. He asked the man about what scientific value there is in saving the giant panda. The man replied, "it's symbolic, it's a sort of reassurance - people need to deceive themselves. We're preoccupied with saving a species which no longer has the capacity for survival and yet on the other hand we're charging ahead and destroying the very environment for the surviva of the human species itself." He continues ...

... of Kangding, at about 3700m, the Tagong Grassland is a vast expanse of meadow lying beneath the sacred Yallah Mountain, and is landmarked by the famous Tagong Lamasery and the golden tower built to commemorate the living buddha, Panchan. The green meadow surrounded by snow-capped peaks and dotted with Tibetan herdsmen and tents.


Tagong is a very wild-west kind of Khampa town, with Tagong village, Tagong Monastery (Lhagong temple), Tagong Pagoda ...

... 1512;וק 97;ם זה יוצר חוויה נעימה. אבל לא מספיק נעימה בכדי לשלם דמי כניסה גבוהי 01; יחסית. אח ...

... to me blathering on about obscure things all the time when they would much rather be sleeping. It was a trial to stay awake but I managed, partly because the guide had threatened us if we didn't pay attention (I have used this tactic in class myself and now, having been on the receiving end of it, I can see why it works) and also asked us to consider how it affects his mood when people don't pay attention or fall asleep, that he gets paranoid and defensive and that it makes him much less ...

... away. At the same time a monk was feeding them so we werent really their biggest priority.

On the way down we had to walk by the place where we got attacked yesterday. On the spot there were no signs of monkeys but plenty of evidence of previous stealing laying around.
At jiuling hump we had brunch and then continued on to magic peak monastery (7km). Around the monastery were a lot of ...

... emotions for them. Mrs.Wang dragged her ill husband outside to sit in a chair by the entrance to their home and pose for a photograph. I felt honored. I will never meet these people again, and probably no one like them. I will never forget. This is why I came to China... 5 minutes walk later and we were back in the 'real world' of skyscrapers, shopping malls and posh restaurants... ------------ Later that day we waved Alastair and James back home to ...

... heating 5 of us piled into this freezing room and bedded down....I couldn't get to sleep and at one point I turned over...only to find that Addi had jumped into bed with the south american dude! Fancy, and in a monastery! As you can image we busted her chops big time the next day for that! Anyway I'm off...Nicks just managed to put some pics on facebook - ace! So check it init! Theres some on both mine and Nicks... Until next time! xx

... the thousands of Chinese there also traveling for the holiday. To speed things up, they were selling tickets to common destinations outside so not to clog the inner ticket office. The Chinese characters for Mt. Emei are 峨眉山 , so I saw a sign for 眉山 , noticed it was right next to the sign for Leshan, a popular tourist spot about fifteen minutes from Mt. Emei (Emei Shan), and proceeded to purchase a ticket. In ...