Connect the four landscape

Make a plan to visit a the landscape

Since China is a large country with a number of beautiful places, the foreign tourists may have a budget limit and time limit. Thus,they may need a good plan to visit the places that I have introduced in the previous posts.

Today I will introduce the way to visit them within four days, and in the last day, before you leave Chengdu, which is the capital of Sichuan.

The First Day

Once the you arrived at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, you may go to the hotel that you booked and leave your luggage there, take a shower and have a short rest.Then you may go to Leshan to see the Giant Buddha.

It will take two hours and a half from Chengdu to Leshan,so you can spend a whole afternoon to visit the Giant Buddha.

After that, you can leave and go to Mountain Emei. It will take one hour and a half to go there. Once you arrive there, you can go to the top of the mountain directly by bus, since it will save a lot of energy and time. And you have a good night there.


The Second Day

The next early morning, you may get up at five am or even early, which depends on the season. At that time, a wonderful sunrise from the cloud sea will make you excited.

After having a local breakfast, you can start get down the mountain on foot. You have enough time to visit the beautiful mountain.

Once you arrive at the bottom, you can start to go back Chengdu now. It is very convenient to take a bus.

Once arrive at Chengdu, you can go out to wal around and have a good rest.

The Third Day

This morning you can arrange your plan to visit the places in Chengdu yourself. The Du Fu Cottage, which was the previous home of the most famous poet in Chinese history, is recommended.

Du Fu, who is the most famous poet,had lived there for years. In the west suburbs of the city, he built for himself a thatched hut and wrote a number of gorgeous poems there. By visiting there, you may have a chance to know more about the Chinese culture.

After Lunch,you can go to visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.The environment there is exquisitely designed,and the air is refreshing with the bamboo growing luxuriantly and flocks of wild birds flying around.

Probably it is the place only you can see a large number of pandas staying together and also see a number of baby pandas.And you will learn more about the panda, too.

And you can also have a close touch with these cute baby pandas, like Ming Yao.

The wonderful environment will also refresh your tiredness caused by the previous travel.

The Last Day

Within the last day, you can have a short visit around Chengdu, buying some gifts. It depends on the time of the flight.

After that, you can fly to other places in China or directly flying back to your home country and finish the wonder travel.

Mountain Emei

Mountain Emei

Today I will introduce the the famouse Buddhism mountain Emei, which is quite close to Leshan Giant Buddha. Thus, the tourists can visit the two places within one or two days.

Although the Moutain Emei is one of the most famous Buddhism moutain, the large group of monkeys are also very attractive to the visitors. After a long time protection, the number of monkeys living in that moutain has increased sharply.

The visitors can not only feed the monkeys directly, but also take photos with them.

The monks living there have also make friends with the monkeys.

The most famous scene that you cannot miss are:

Sun rising on the cloud sea

Since the sun rise in the very early morning, the tourists have to get up about 4.30 am. Although it is quite cold, the beautiful scence will worthy it.

The light of luck

Due to the myth, the people who see the light of luck will be happy for a whole life.

The cute monkeys

The tourists who have visited there will never forget the monkeys. You will never what they will do!

The monkey was trying to get food through making fun with the monk while he was doing a interview. And they made the interview much more interesting.

Leshan Giant Buddha

The first place that is highly recommended for the tourists, especially thoses who are visting Sichuan for the first time, is the Leshan Giant Buddha.

Why?

Because its long history and specialty.

History:

Since the Giant Buddha lies at the confluence of three rivers, Minjiang, Dadu, and Qingyi River, these rivers were usually torrential and the turbulent water plagued the vessels,which is the main transportation style in old days, because the area is full of mountains and hills.

In order to calm the turbulent water, a Chinese monk named Haitong, started the construction program in 713. After it was carved out of the cliff, the waste solid and stones were poured into the rivers. Thus, the bottom of the river became smooth and the river became less torrential.

The amazing thing is all the construction was done by hunman beings with tradditional rough equipments.

Now, it is the largest Buddha in the world and by far it is the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.

Dimensions:

At 71 metres (233 feet) tall, the statue depicts a seated Maitreya Buddha with his hands resting on his knees.

His shoulders are 28 metres wide and his smallest toenail is large enough to easily accommodate a seated person.

 There is a local saying: "The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain".

This is partially because the mountain range in which the Leshan Giant Buddha is located is thought to be shaped like a slumbering Buddha when seen from the river, with the Leshan Giant Buddha as its heart. (Wikipedia)

What you cannot miss? See from the opposite side of the river.

 

Where is Sichuan in China?

Where Is Sichuan?

Before we start our travel plan, the most important thing is to know where the Sichuan Is and How to get there.

As the map shows:

The red area of the map is Sichuan Province. The most convenient way to get there is by air. The Chengdu International airport is one of the largest international airport in Southwestern China.

After arriving Chengdu, the travel will start. The tourists will get the landscapet that they want to go by bus very conveniently.