24 March 2012 Trip to E’ Mei Mountain (24 &25 March 2012)

24 March 2012

Trip to E’ Mei Mountain (24 &25 March 2012)

In the morning at around 7.45am, all of us gathered downstairs to get ready for our 2-day trip; we were all well prepared and packed for the icy cold temperature up the mountain. We first met our tour leader-in-charge, Tina, and got up the bus and left school at 8am. I slept along the way with the others as it was a 6 hour journey to Le Shan.

Le Shan, a mountain that is famous for the Giant Great Buddha that was constructed for over 90 years back in ancient times.
 We took a boat down to the shores of the tourist attraction where we saw the Great Giant Buddha along with two big statues on both sides guarding it at the cliffs. 
We were standing at the boat’s deck and were awed and amazed at the size and greatness of this statue. 
When the boat slowed down, we quickly fished out our cameras and took as many shots as possible with the Buddha and with our friends in the photos.

Late afternoon, we checked in a local hotel not far from Le Shan and boy was it more comfortable and spacious than our dorm in school. Chee Seng and I stayed on the top floor (very high), we then decided to take a stroll along the street. Not much to buy or see as nothing was eye catching and boring.

At night, a group of us went to see a play not far from our hotel. The play is about the people of Sichuan, we each paid $160 Yuan to watch it. When we got there, we were just in time to get the last few rows of seats. The show was great, there was Wushu, men with monkey-like abilities, a historic town play and the world famous one was the mask changing experts. To end the show, the finale was about 10 beautiful female dancers dressed with flowers and an elephant with Buddha sitting on top and the roof has pink flowers falling. Everyone gave a round of applause and enjoyed ourselves, a great experience and money well spent!