Xiandao Hotel Leshan

... round the authorities have ensured that the fragile environment is sufficiently protected with a range of comprehensive tourist facilities.
http://www.chinaculture. org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content _21364.htm

Information on getting there and fees:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Jiuzh aigou_Nature_Reserve

Though beautiful it may be during sunny days, on a cloudy and rainy day one can't enjoy the green, blue or turquoise colors of the lake ...

... in the world, Leshan Giant Buddha is featured in poetry, song and story.

Facing the river, the Buddha has symmetrical posture and looks which have been beautifully captured in its solemn stillness. It is 71 meters (about 233 feet) high, and has three-meter-long (about 11 feet) fingers. The eight-meter-long (about 27 feet) instep is big enough for one hundred people to sit on and the 28-meter-wide (about 92 feet) shoulder is large enough to be a ...

... hostel (http://www.zhilamhostel.com/About%20Zh ilam.html) I asked the guys at the reception to play the song. Beautiful song and upon returning to BJ I will have to download it to my computer.

Ahh, it was good to be back at the hostel. Lilian, the filipina manager, is just a warm and welcoming person who makes you feel at home. It also helps to have fresh baked carrot cake and apple cake. At the hostel, I met Chris and Barrat who were travelling around ...

... Buddhist temples and grounds, which were much more peaceful. I giggled at the sight of a monk on a mobile phone and had to get a photo!
Most of the rest of the day was taken up by attempting to get back to Chengdu. Hailing a cab can take a while here and you’ve really got to be aggressive if you don’t want someone else to jump in it first! We ended up finding a couple of people with vans at a local grocery store to take us back to the bus stop, where we discovered we ...

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... the bus and immediately bought some masks, despite being saddened that the old model (sex god) Kwan Sang Woo had been replaced by (pretty boy, but butt ugly without his glasses) Bae Yong Joon. I guess Kwan Sang Woo is no longer as popular anymore since he got hitched. After some retail therapy, I stopped at a couple of street stalls and snacked, which ended up being my dinner (a lot of which I managed to drop down my front, which was most unfortunate since it was oily). The police came ...

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... from the top of the cliff we were walking on. We were finally there... Then we had to wait 20 minutes to descent the steps one by frigging one to the bottom of its feet. We chose a bad day to travel. It was the national holiday...It was jam-packed. You don't really realise just how big this thing is until you stand by its foot, which is taller then me. We saw a few more 'miniature' versions of this Buddha along the way but we didn't have time to see ...

We arrived in Emei Shan at around lunch time, checked into the hotel and had lunch. We finally had a menu that offered fried noodles (so far they have all been in soup or cold) so gorged on chicken and pork noodles. It was drizzling outside so we decided it was not worth paying the full entry ticket price for half a drizzly day so we went to visit 2 monasteries that are nearby. Fuhu Monastery was the first and it was beautiful. It was nestled among the trees on the side of ...

... me they were mean though, which I needed to see to believe... The first "joking monkey zone," as the translation called it, was more of the former description. Lots of photographers offered pictures with the monkeys, and you could buy food packets to feed them. It wasn't until further up the mountain that I witnessed the latter. First, I didn't realize how smart the monkeys were and that they could see the food through my mesh bag, so I had ...