The steps to the feet of Dafo

Toenails Bigger Than Dad

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June 11th 2010
Our last day in Chengdu and up early to bus out to the Giant Buddha near the town of Leshan. The 2 hour bus trip there allows us to see some of the Sichuan countryside and it really is quite beautiful with tea plantations and green rice fields and terraces aplenty. The giant buddah or Dafo, as he is known locally, is the largest buddah in the world at 71 meters high. He is carved into a cliff f ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more