emei mountain (golden summit) – baoguo
1,5 hour hike down from 3060m to 2420m
the clouds were as thick as yesterday although we thought it might be clear after the rainstorm all night. back at the village baoguo with tourist restaurants, street lights and decorated side walk trees.
emei mountain (wannian monestry) – emei mountain (golden summit)
8h hike about 2200 alti meter
thousands of steps into the thick rain clouds. we hoped for clear weather and a nice sunrise and camped at the mountain top @ 3060 meters.
analog laptop
leshan baoguo emei mountain (wannian monestry)
40km 212 alti meter biking, 2h hike 550 alti meter
we leave the bikes at the teddy bear hotel in baoguo after a short ride from leshan. it turned out to be a good idea to use the late afternoon to start the hike up the emei mountain, as it was less crowded. after a couple hundred steps we camped and we get to set up my new tent for the first time (so far we used alex´s huge mobile home)
emeishan´s artifical elephant city
sanjiang leshan
33,66km 177 alti meter
after a short ride visiting the giant buddha and the park around it. we meet some other tourists, take lots of pictures and get asked for pictures .
zigong sanjiang
105km 500 alti meter
we left the mixture of hot, humid and polluted air of the city and passed rice fields again. after a climb we saw some family run businesses how made use of every bit of the bamboo trees.
