Chapter 2

📖 This chapter is about going from Hong Kong back to Toronto by buses 🚌 , trains 🚂 and boats 🚤 Les mer

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Day 9: Wulong Train Station
13. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
We were back to the Wulong Train taking a morning train back to Chongqing North Station again. We will spend a full day and our last chance tomorrow touring around Chongqing.
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Day 9: Chongqing North Station
13. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
We were back to the crowd here again, Chongqing North Station.
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Day 9: Changjiang Cableway
13. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
A cable car in town across the Yangtsz River. We watched the cable car from an old housing residential area called White Elephant Residence. It’s very fun to watch the cable car passes by every time.
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Reisende That really motors along!
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Day 10: The White Crane Ridge
14. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Our last full day in Chongqing! We decided to visit a tentative UNESCO World Heritage just outside the city called The White Crane Ridge. It is located in a town called Fuling. It can be accessed with a 45-min high speed train ride.

The White Crane Ridge, known as "the world premier tient hydrolosical station" , is located in the Yangtze River, north of Fuling, Chongging, In the
early time, flocks of white cranes often congregating in the area, so the museum
took the name. The inscriptions on
it began earlier than the first year of the reign of Emperor Guangde in the Tang Dynasty and 165 segments are preserved today. It is the world’s first underground museum.Les mer
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Day 11: Chongqing West Station
15. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
A final goodbye to Chongqing! We took a short 2-hour train ride to Leshan today for the giant Buddha!
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Day 11: Leshan Train Station
15. januar 2025 ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Welcome to Leshan 🪷
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Day 11: Walk around Leshan
15. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We walked around Leshan a little bit before our big hike to the Giant Buddha the next day. We saw a lot of Chinese New Year decorations. Surprisingly, we found a Walmart in China as well!
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Reisende Such an interesting photo
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Day 12: Walking to Leshan Giant Buddha
16. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Nice and early hike to the entrance of the Leshan Giant Buddha!
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Day 12: Leshan Giant Buddha
16. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Welcome to the Giant Buddha! A LOT of tourists (even in winter!) came here to see the Giant Buddha. Today Bonus was having a chance to see the peacocks 🦚
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Day 12: Oriental Buddha Capital
16. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Next to the Giant Buddha is an area full of buddha sculpture and such. Since we were there already, we decided to go in and take a look at all the giant sculptures. Chris was also invited by 2 monks to take a photo together. HahaLes mer
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Reisende Christopher, you would probably fit right into their lifestyle except that your hair looks too short.
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Day 13: Leshan to Emishan
17. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
After visiting the Giant Buddha area yesterday, we were exhausted and lucky that we had only one mission today. It was to move ourselves from Leshan to Emishan by local bus. 90 mins on a local city bus for $1. How can you beat that!Les mer
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Day 13: Walk around Emishan
17. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
A short walk from our hotel in Emishan. We kept it a very light day to prepare for a big hike tomorrow.
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Day 14: Hiking at Emishan
18. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C
We took the 7:30am bus bring us to the parking lot. It took 1.5 hours from the tourist information center to the parking lot, where every one started their hike there. We chose to hike the whole length all the way to the Golden Summit without taking the cable car.

We finally saw and felt the snow ❄️ again :)Les mer
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Reisende Dr Zeus must have been thinking of you when he wrote his book about “the places you.ll go”
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Day 14: Golden Summit at Emishan
18. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
The top of Emishan is the Golden summit. There’s a 10-faces Golden Buddha statue there and it’s the best space to enjoy the sea of cloud here. We even saw the small temple opposite to the area once the cloud has broken down.

Coming here in winter is not that easy as the hiking paths are super icy and slippery. We were quite disappointed that the paths are not well-maintained even they charged a fair bit of ticket price. Cammy bought a pair of crampons to help with the balancing during the hike. Lucky that we came back safe and without any injury.Les mer
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Day 15: Emishan Train Station
19. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Last goodbye to Emishan! Another easy day for us today. We are just taking the train to Chengdu today.
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Day 15: Chengdu East Station
19. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Welcome to Chengdu! After an hour short train ride, we are here in the big city again.
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Day 15: Chengdu Global Center
19. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Chris brought me here! The world’s largest shopping mall. He was here before and was amazed of how giant it is. So, he wanted to show me as well. So after 7 years or so, he was here again in the giant shopping mall. There is a water park, hotel, cinema and much more inside the mall. It looks like more of a resort area to me more than a typical shopping mall.Les mer
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ReisendeReminds me of a Casino! LOL
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Reisende WOW!
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Day 16: Sanxingdui Museum
20. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
We took a 1.5 hours direct bus from
Chengdu to Guanghan city to visit Sanxingdui Museum.

Sanxingdui is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Many Chinese archaeologists have identified the Sanxingdui culture to be part of the ancient kingdom of Shu, linking the artifacts found at the site to its early and legendary kings. A lot of the artifacts are large bronze heads with protruding eyes that that some believe to be a depiction of Cancong, the semi-legendary first king of Shu.Les mer
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Day 17: Shuijing Street Liquor Museum
21. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
At present, Shuijing Street Liquor Making Site is the first site of ancient spirits brewing workshop that has been scientifically excavated in China, which has
been preserved in best intactness and with complete processing facilities. It covers 2,000 square meter with the layout of "store in the front, distillery in the rear".

A plenty of cultural relics are found in this site and it is so labeled "China's first liquor making site" by historian and cultural relics experts. The site is currently the key state protected historic site.

We got a private tour there as there were not many people visiting. The tickets is 40RMB each which included 2 glasses of liquor for tasting. It’s an interesting to spend an hour or two to learn about China’s first liquor making site.Les mer
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Day 18: Xipu Railway Station
22. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Today was a light day. We were just transferring to Dujiangyuan for a few days to tour around the area. It’s a short ride (30 mins) from Xipu Railway Station in Chengdu.
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Day 18: Lidui Park Station
22. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
After settling down in our hotel, we went out to walk around Dujiangyuan. We came across this giant panda 🐼 in a plaza. How cute it is!
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Day 18: The Ancient County of Guanxian
22. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
The reason we visited Dujiangyuan is to check out their irrigation system long built in the Qin Dynasty. Before entering the irrigation system area, we passed through the Ancient County of Guanxian, which is full of ancient Chinese-style old buildings.

The Ancient County of Guanxian long reputed as "Mini-Chengdu", is an ancient county boasting multiple heritage sites and rich cultures. Since the Dujiangyan Irrigation System was completed in the Qin dynasty, the Western Sichuan Plain has witnessed prosperity never seen before, adding a lot to the brilliance of Guanxian County.Les mer
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Day 18: Dujiangyan Irrigation System
22. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
The irrigation system was developed a very long time ago to divert the river and prevent flooding. The creator of the system, Li Bing, used different structure to control the water flow and divert their direction. In the area, there are different modern water measurement system as well.

The Dujiangyan is an ancient irrigation system in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan, China. Originally constructed around 256 BC by the State of Qin as an irrigation and flood control project, it is still in use today. The system's infrastructure develops on the Min River (Minjiang), the longest tributary of the Yangtze. The area is in the west part of the Chengdu Plain, between the Sichuan Basin and the Tibetan Plateau. Originally, the Min would rush down from the Min Mountains and slow down abruptly after reaching the Chengdu Plain, filling the watercourse with silt, thus making the nearby areas extremely prone to floods. King Zhao of Qin commissioned the project, and the construction of the Dujiangyan harnessed the river using a new method of channeling and dividing the water rather than simply damming it. The water management scheme is still in use today to irrigate over 5,300 km2 (2,000 sq mi) of land in the region[1] and has produced comprehensive benefits in flood control, irrigation, water transport and general water consumption. Begun over 2,250 years ago, it now irrigates 668,700 hectares of farmland. The Dujiangyan, the Zhengguo Canal in Shaanxi and the Lingqu Canal in Guangxi are collectively known as the "three great hydraulic engineering projects of the Qin."Les mer
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Day 18: Nan (South) Bridge
22. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
In Dujiangyuan, we came across this impressive bridge, Nan Bridge. It was built in ancient China but was destroyed by an earthquake in Sichuan. They restored it but it still kept the ancient style.
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Day 19: Local Bus to Qingchengshan
23. januar 2025, Kina ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Nice and early start today as we planned to do a hike at the Qingcheng Back Mountain. We had to catch a bus #101 to Qingchengshan High Speed Railway Station. Then, change to a shuttle bus to the entrance of the Back Mountain.Les mer
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