Xingfa Hotel Leshan

... from Chengdu was to Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve and Songpan.

Located in the north of Sichuan Province, Jiuzhaigou County (previously known as Nanping County until being renamed in 1998) is part of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. Since the opening of the Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area in 1984, visitors have flocked to the region year by year, and the prosperous tourist industry now accounts for a large proportion of ...

Woke up early in the Mix, was told I could catch a bus to Jiuzhaigou anytime, but when I arrived at the station, they were all sold out and the last bus was leaving. So, instead, I hopped on the bus to Leshan. Walked around the park, saw the Big Buddha (biggest in the world), along with numerous other sculptures and carvings and such. I'll post pictures whenever I can.

... Bei, Zhuge Liang's emperor. Liu's temple, the Hanzhaolie Temple, was moved here and rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty, but the Wuhou Temple name stuck all the same.

Many travellers at Sim's are planning trips to or through Tibet on the way to Nepal (trekking season in Nepal is September-December). This may be the place to go when I eventually make my way to Nepal. However, I plan on checking out a Tibetan travel agency in Zhongdian, Yunnan and find out what ...

... Dynasty (1644-1911) to commemorate the Han Princess Wencheng and Phags-pa, the Grand State Tutor of Tibetan Buddhism with Buddhism Institute inside, also named as "the small Lhasa Jokhang Monastery", is one of the 108 temples built during the reign of Songtsen Gampo in ancient Tibetan times. There is a sacred statue of 12-year old sakyamuni (Buddha) in the monastery, which have been brought by Princess Wenchen on her way to Lhasa. It collects statues, white ...

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... arms and legs. Yep. It was great fun. For all the front was grand, the back was far more pleasant. There is an old temple and then some caves with other statues in them. I was particularly fond of the latter. Finally we went to a museum with carvings made out of wood stuff (come to think of it, the wood stuff was probably ebony), which was a bit tedious, although they had a "pick a number to find out who your rohan protector is" out of the 500 arhats in the museum. You choose a number ...

... meters in front of us depending on how dense the fog was.

Just before we arrived at the elephant bathing pool monastery we saw some monkeys which we wanted to take pictures of. So we stopped for a minute. Thats when they started to close in. A big monkey grabbed Annas backpack and refused to let go before he had checked everywhere for food, bitten the waterbottle and tasted all the napkins. As soon as possible we ran ...

... and give us the ability to tap into energy that we don't yet know about. I swear to god this guy is on medication. A late night and early start and we were on our way to Leshan. Relatively simple to get there. It's a tourist attraction and so there were a fair few white people joining us, though all were German, old and extremely ignorant and unwelcoming; they had their Chinese tour guide and so had no need to talk to other white people (which is what ...

... it was something you could only see if you shelled out the £400 or so to stay right at the top on the only 5 star hotel. still, it didnt matter as the top of the mountain was bloody awesome! coming out of the fog on a cable car you are suddenly hit by sunlight and the fog below is an entire blanket of cloud, which makes it feel like a different world all together. having not seen much blue sky, let alone absolutley clear blue sky this was really welcomed depsite it being only few degrees ...

... I saw we had only covered 80 of the 100 kilometers, I was ready to go insane. Fortunately, I hadn't eaten before boarding the bumpy bus or else I surely would have painted the windows about halfway into the journey. I finally arrived in the city in the early afternoon, but decided against entering the park that day since the tickets are good for 2 days and there would only be a few hours of light left. A middle-aged Irish man who stayed at the ...