After sleeping for a very long time, we woke up and pulled down the laundry to see if it was still wet. Unknowingly we also pulled in a huge moth which Jeff released back outside. At that point we decided that it was time to eat breakfast since I slept through dinner the night before. Crazy thing was that around 1AM it sounded like someone was trying to get into our room which made me jump out of bed. Must have been a lost backpacker I guess.
Breakfast was a funny Chinese adaptation for french toast which were two hamburger buns dipped in egg wash and a quick fry along with 2 fried eggs and what was suppose to be bacon looked more like cha shiu. I dug out one of my instant coffee packets since coffee was super pricey and Jeff had a lemon soda. We ran into Pierre and Jessica again and they were off to hike the mountain, hoping to reach the summit by sunset. We said goodbye and packed up our stuff and headed to Leshan which was an hour by bus away.
Leshan is known for it’s humongous Buddha statue that is 71 meter tall carved into the mountain. The crazy thing is that one monk started working on it before blinding himself in a protest against the government. Other monks helped him finish off the statue later on. The one thing that we didn’t expect was a massive amount of stairs which is what we got. After about an hour of hiking, we finally made it to the big Buddha which is the biggest in the world. However we were short on time so we took a few pictures and headed back to Mt. Emei.
Once we were back at the bus station at Mt. Emei, we got 2 tickets and took the bus ride to the top of the mountain. The bus trip took about 2 hours and stopped at each of the major bus stops along the way. Right after we got off the bus who did we run into? Pierre and Jessica looking super tired. They were glad to see us and we were surprised to see them. They told us of the tedious hike up the mountain and having to fight off monkeys that were trying to take their food. We decided to hike up to the cable car that would take us to the summit.
Along the way we ran into more monkeys that were taking runs at Jessica. Pierre chased them off with a stick. We were all glad to have made it to the cable car which was pretty pricey for a five minute ride up. Beautiful views of the mountain greeted us as we ascended towards the summit. Luckily for us the hotel was literally right outside the station. We all checked in and took a quick rest before running up to the top of the summit for some sunset photos.



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