http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Sichuan , Emei Shan en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:34 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:34 BST Our last day in Chengdu involved nothing more than recovering from our massages and treating ourselves to the Sichuanese delicacy HotPot. For those who are uneducated in the ways of HotPot please see the text at the end of the blog Now anyone who has even met Dave will know of his love for this dish. Penny's first HotPot however nearly ended in disaster. A piece of beef slipped from the hol http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-326320.html To say it right up front The plan to climb Emei Shan failed completely. From Lugu Lake we took a bus across the border from Yunnan into Sichuan. The journey was a bit of a mixed blessing It went through some amazing and remote scenery but I was sick for about half of the eight hour journey due to the endless bends and the bad condition of the road. Unfortunately I was also not able to take an http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-309413.html On the bedside table in our room at Teddy Bear Hotel cozy friendly and highly recommended by the way was a copy of a pictorial book on Mount Emei. Flipping through pages of mindblowing images there was one particular photo that stood out. It depicted hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims prostrating in concentric circles around the gargantuan golden statue of Bodhisattva Puxian on the Gol http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-226651.html From Chengdu we went to Emei shan another one of the sacred mountains in China.Spent 56 hours walking the lower region of the mountain. It was luscious green and fresh. So relaxing to be away from the busy city streets not a car in sight or a horn to be heard. In many areas on the beautiful mountain numerous monkeys live. The main aim of the day was to see them For most of our day we were a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-214867.html Made it to Leshan by 3PM. As soon as I got off the bus I was attacked by men who wanted me to take their taxi. I negotiated with them down to 15 Yuan from their start of 30 CNY pshellipCNYRMBYuanhellipI then realized that I needed to leave my bags at the bus station according to advice from Melanie and Mike. When inside inquiring the nice woman also mentioned that I could take a bus to http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-213260.html After my monkey troubles I continued my hike upwards. Emei is one tough hike. The entire way up Emei is by stairs. I think on this one trip alone I had walked up more flights of stairs than my entire life combined. A rough estimate is to say that there are six to seven steps per meter multiply that by roughly three thousand meters and you have roughly eighteen to twenty one thousand steps. Whi http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-207392.html After many hours of drinking and sleeping to get myself sorted out after my horrible train ride I decided it was time to walk up Emei. It was raining but climbing Emei was big on my to do list. I waited for a break in the rain left my belongings at the hostel packed one change of clothes and some bare necessities and headed out. It was around one o'clock in the afternoon so I was only able to h http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-204898.html StevenWe chose to make a trip to mount Emei a holy Buddhist mountain near Chengdu and 3099m in elevation. Lelde has been plagued for a while with a sore ankle which can deteriorate so we decided to tackle the mountain as a descent for the most part.We started by getting a bus to Emei pronounced omay town then to the tourist fabrication of a village at the foot of the mountain. We got a bus http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-176205.html The Never Ending Stairs of Emei ShannbspAsia raquonbspChina raquonbspSichuan raquonbspEmei Shan By Joe and RocioMarch 17th 2007Joe Rocio St. ClairFord2day stepclimbing and 1day descendingEscaleras infinitas de Emei Shan.2 dias subiendo escalones y 1 dia bajando http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-167017.html One of the 4 sacred mountains of China. Typically they are a chain of summits very high with gloruis view and temples are spread over and piligrims come to pray. Eami shan shan mountain is almost 3100m high. It is cloudy both in offon seasons and it is probably impossibple to see a good sunrise anytime but the pictures in the brosures are mashu mashu. In our case the off season disadvant http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-143672.html howdiena jiuzhaigou en songpan zijn we via chendu afgezakt naar leshan en emei shan. Vee gebus dus maar wie zijn wij om te klagen. enfin leshan enorme boeddha en emei shan enorme berg met tempels op. Vooral emei shan was zeer mooi ook weer in de sneeuw en de gouden top was prachtig in de zon. Op deze berg zitten ook veel apen in de sneeuw dus die nogal gierig naar uw zak kunnen graaien http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-105286.html we hadden onze zakken zo licht mogelijk gepakt met het oog op goed weer maar daar kregen we een beetje spijt van toen we met onze bus in een monsterfile stilstonden en de chauffeur met koorden probeerde de sneeuwkettingen aan een band van de bus probeerde vast te maken. Enfin met enkele uren vertraging zijn we dan toch van Jiujaigou in songpan geraakt. Jiuzaigou was ook al koud maar daarom nie http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-104628.html Text to be added later... http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-73892.html After a relaxing day at Chengdu we took a bus to Emei Shan about 2 hours from Chengdu. The place we stayed at was called the Teddy Bear Hotel. Not sure where the name came from. The manager of the hotel Andy was quite helpful in outlining routes to climb the mountain. He was also very talkative about his hotel unfortunately he was not very intelligble so we did a lot of nodding and that's ni http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-61610.html I have spent the past four days in a town called Emei which lies at the base of Emei Shan Mt. Emei about 150 km. south of Chengdu. My goal was to climb to the summit of Emei Shan which is at about 3100 meters above sea level while starting at about 500 meters above sea level. I decided to challenge myself a bit while Irsquom passing the time in China but I may have overdone it a bit. Th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Emei-Shan/blog-55696.html