Leshan, Sichuan, China

Spent the day today at Leshan seeing Buddhist temples and the 71m high Buddha. I swear i have never sweated so much in my life! Even walking up the mountains was dryer than this!! The temples that we saw were also really fascinating. Especially good was the hall with 1000 terracotta 'Arhat' (Buddhist celestial beings) which look like people. They are all life size and all have different positions and faces and facial expressions (some of which were really funny!).


The pics here are:
1) typical looking scene with river inlet, buildings etc we then walked down and across the the wall path you see here
2) Vera carefully reading and then rereading the info on the tombs cos it was really interesting (nothing to do with the fact it was 10degrees cooler inside the tombs of course ...) To be fair tho the ancient Ming tombs were pretty cool (in all senses ;)



3) The giant Buddha from above - note the teeny tiny people in top left corner to get an idea of size)
4) The same Buddha from below after we climbed down the cliff steps (along with half the population of China)









BTW we also went to see a Sichuan Culture show last night which had Sichuan Opera, puppets, fire spitting, face changing and music - VERY cool .... um but i forgot my camera :P

Oh and heading to Yangshuo tomorrow (fly to Guilin then bus to Yangshuo)

Also - only 1 week till we are home :D