Chengdu Day 6 Mt Emei

The misty dreamy scenery of Mt Emei was awesome. There you are among the clouds, floating along high in heavens. The infamous monkeys are found at the lower slopes waiting for victims.

Chengdu Day 5 Leshan

Day 5 saw us making our way to Leshan where the tallest (after the Afgans destroyed theirs) stone carving of Buddha is located. The boat ride made its round on the Leshan River for a magnificant view of the statue.

Chengdu Day 4

Day 4 of our tour saw us descending from the highlands towards lower grounds. We have a short visit to the Sichuan Earthquake disaster area ie the school which was flattened. The place ironically became a tourist attraction now. The number of visitors there was overwhelming as it includes local visitors from other parts of China. The pictures shown the fallen school. the last two pictures showed the newly built school.

Chengdu Day 4

Picking loquats at a farmer's house. The top two pictures showed the kutchen of their home.

Chengdu Day 3

The natural landscape of mountains, numerous lakes and waterfall at Jiuzhaigou was a breathtaking sight. Being there on a raining June day was an experience which was unique. There were mist around at this high attitude, besides being chilly.

Chengdu Day 2

On the second day of the tour, we went to Huanglong, a place of high attitude (above 3000m)

Chengdu China Day 1

Signed up for a 10-day Tour of Jiuzhaigou/Huanglong/Leshan/Mt Emei/Chengdu from Chan Brothers : 11 June to 21 June 2011

Day 1 : An unearthly midnight trip to T1 for the 0200 flight to Chengdu on China Airlines. Cannot sleep during the 4 hour flight, food (fried mee) served at 0400 hours, imagine that. Reached Chengdu in morning. Mr Liu was there to meet us, an unlikely group of 12 (4 families).


Immediately, after a quick Kentucky breakfast at the airport, the bus proceeded to Du Jiang Weirs project, a major project which diverse the river flow. It was a massive project of immense importance to Chengdu.

Left to right : Model of the project; water flow from Dragon head; old entrance


Shaking bridge video



Video of Strong water flow