2024-07 China trip

Near 鐵像寺水街 in the city of Chengdu

It’s a promenade featuring a river, some bridges, lots of shops and restaurants.

It’s named after the iron buddha statue once found here (though the statue is no longer here).

Near by places

The wall of a preschool, featuring kids’ artwork

Lotuses are everywhere. Ponds/lakes/rivers are everywhere in this city too.

Hopscotch with character 天 at the 10’s place

Near 峨眉山 Emei Mountain

Emei is one of the four sacred buddhist mountains of China. In Chinese Buddhism, each of these 4 mountains is dedicated to a main bodhisattva. Emei is dedicated to Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, the bodhisattva associated with meditation and practice. It’s famous for its peak called 金頂(golden summit) at the altitude of 3099 meters, and the wild monkeys along its trails that are known to grab stuff from travelers.

Samantabhadra in this statue is known for having 10 faces, and his elephants each have 6 tusks.

People watching the clouds from an altitude of more than 3000 meters.

The clouds are unpredictable. Earlier it was clear sky, then all of a sudden it’s fogs everywhere.

The monkeys

People often say that the monkeys are super wild here. They are not afraid of human and often grab food or drinks from people’s bags on the trail. On this day though, we didn’t find a lot of monkeys nearby. None of them entered the trail. We just saw a few nearby monkeys near the end of the day on the tree branches.