Jinye Grand Hotel Leshan

... cut through a mountain by means of heating the rock and then pouring water on it. The narrow opening to the irrigation system regulated the amount of water entering the system. It is called Baopingkou ( Cherished Vase Mouth ) . It is
said that the 20 meter wide channel required 8 years to finish. The third part is a spillway called Feishayan that was dug to discharge water and silt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D ujiangyan_Irrigation_System

My last ...

... about 1 hour to filter down the massive sea of people that went from 6 people shoulder to shoulder to single file down the steep stairs. At the bottom we only spent 20 minutes, and did photo bombing.

Photobombing - the art of jumping into other peoples photos and pull funny faces.. hey they were taking pictures of us anyway!

Again, pictures are better than words. So happy viewing.

... in memory of Zhuge Liang, who was a well-known strategist and statesman during the Three Kingdoms Period. Wuhou might be translated as 'Minister of War', and was the title given to Zhuge Liang, a famous military strategist of the Three Kingdoms Period (220-80 AD) immortalised in one of the classics of Chinese literature, The Tale of the Three Kingdoms. Curiously, Zhuge Liang is not the main attraction of the temple. The front shrine instead is dedicated to ...

... of the grassland is around 3500m. The well-known Tagong monastery is just sitting in the middle of the stretch. Tibetans celebtarate their their harvest and festivals here with drinking, dancing and singing for days, when is a good occasion to witness the truly Kham Tibetan folks. Also, the annual Horse Race Festival be held at the beginning of the 8th lunar month in Tagong Grassland.

Tagong Monastery - a famous Nyingmapa monastery built in the ...

... 1497; שביקר 14;י בפסל צעדתי על הטילת וגילי 14; שאפשר לראות את הפסל גם משם, לא את הסדקי 01; הקטנ ...

... yell at everybody over loudspeakers not to hold everybody else up by taking photos. This is of course completely useless. I mean you don't come all the way to Sichuan, pay a great wad of cash for your ticket, wait in line for flipping ages and then not take photos when you finally get to see the darn Buddha. This whole process is made even more unbearable by the heat and the humidity. Everybody's clothes were complete soaked through with sweat. We all had sweat dripping down out ...

... but we managed to avoid getting anything stolen by walking with some chinese people walking in the same direction. By hitting the floor and the handrail with our sticks we managed to scare them off.
From magic peak monastery to venerable trees terrace we thought it was 6km but it turned out it was more than the double, 15km!
We descided to stay here and walk the 18km to baoguo tomorrow.

... and Jon and I planned for our last day. We decided we would check out Dafo in Leshan, home to the worlds biggest stone Buddha, and worlds 2nd biggest stone sculpture. That evening was pretty amusing. We met up with some fellow travelers and Simon in the Sims bar and went for some BBQ. We listened to some more of Simon's stories. I've got past the point of caring if they're true anymore, they are just so ridiculously ******** that they're HILARIOUS. We ...

heading off with a Bristonian to Leshan we set off to see the world biggest seated Buddha, 72 metres tall, carved out of the mountain after on emans passion turned into an obsession and was eventually finished after he died by the towns folk! Leshan is tiny enough but busy because of this tourist attraction and it doenst fail to impress. apprently ques during the just passed chinese holiday were 3 hours long but for us it was only 20mins so we were able to get our tourist photos without too ...

... it's common to abbreviate things and skip a character here and there, so I didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until I was on the bus and a man I was sitting next to asked why I was going to Mei Shan(眉山 ), and I told him my reason, that I realized I was headed to a different city. Leave it to China to have an 峨眉山 right next to 眉山 ... I thought about staying for a day, but then decided ...