Hey guys! Good morning! so after 2.5 hours
Transportation from Chengdu we are at Leshan. Leshan is a small city
but it's a tourist city and in Sichuan it is a
Very green town. It's like let me show you around
sky is so blue here
And it's a nice sunny day 20 degree
So green. Everything is so green and
Leshan well known for its giant Buddha statue. It's the biggest, the largest,tallest
stone Buddha statue in the world. So hopefully you guys will enjoy this journey with us
So guys this place the Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛), the giant Buddha statue is a world heritage
so it's pretty significant and this is the Chinese characters for the Giant buddha statue. (乐山大佛)
It's a 5A （AAAAA）
National tourist attraction
so I guess a lot of people are asking me what is 5A means right? there's five different levels
in the national tourist attraction rating
So there's 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A is the highest so far. There's about
50 tourist attractions across China have been rated 5A (AAAAA)
In order to get 5A, you need to pass a lot of
Rules and everything, you need to be very tourist friendly you have to be able to do
Multi-language, so it's there's a lot of restrictions for that and we visit us a couple ones that are 4A and in Chengdu
there's a like the narrow wide ally is actually a
3A (AAA)
This is really differently from the national tourist attraction
The character at the top, what is that?
that means Buddha. (佛）
Buddhism
that word is Buddhism
OK
(stunning views of giant Buddha filmed by DJI MavicPro)
So here guys, there's a little description of the giant Buddha statue
It says it is a World Heritage Site
The Buddha, the giant Buddha statue finished
In Tang Dynasty and under construction for 90 years
at that time it was one of the biggest projects and
the statue is
71 meters in height and
The width of the head is in 10 meters Wow, and there's 1000 and
1021
braids on the statue of the head
on the head
1021 braids and the ear is 7 meters long
the nose is 5.6 metres long, eyebrow is
5.6 meters wide
And the eye is 3.3 meters in width and
The shoulder is 28 meters wide apart and
The fingernail is 8.3 meters long. So each fingernail is 8.3 metre long
that's huge
Th feet is 8.5 meters wide
It can host about 100 people on the foot. each foot? Yeah
So that's pretty much the whole description of this giant Buddha
The entire mountain range. It looks like a lounging Buddha.
interesting
Yeah, and that's the
Buddha statue, so when was the Buddha statue built?
Huh, when was the Tang dynasty like when was that Buddha built? about 1200 years ago. long time ago basically.
so guys, we are at the giant Buddha.
we are at this little lookout area.
The view is so beautiful. I wish I don't know if you can see it very well
And I can see why it's so flourishing because air smells so amazing.
It's kind of humid. It feels very good
Kind of like a tropical
rainforest
Show you guys the view
Chinese burger
Onions
cilantro
it's like a little pita bread
go have a bite
just on this side
About this ice cream and look at the one Danny picked. my childhood memory
Okay, so we just finished the giant Buddha so we hiked down the mountain and it's called Mount Ermei
I think that's how you pronounce it
So as I was uploading pictures and split my story onto Instagram
I did a little bit research on the location and I probably should have researched before we came but
So this mountain is quite remarkable. It's actually the location where Buddhism first entered into China
So this is where it was where I began in China and the first Buddhist temple in China was also built
At the top of mountain Ermei. since then 30 more temples have been added to that
to the site and the most remarkable structure
on the mountain is obviously
the giant Buddha. so yeah
This is just quite a significant place that we came and I feel quite blessed to be here
it's always on my bucket list and
Everything's on your bucket list babe. the reason why I visited
because I can only imagine its beauty through text books when I was young and then
when I was young and I didn't get to travel at all and I was
just learning studying very hard and
There's a lot of writers and the poets. they wrote a lot of essays about
about this place and then I mean, it's
quite magnificent
statue, I mean it's
If you had a chance to go to China
This might be a stop that you must go visit and especially for all your Buddhists, this is
So it's so calming and so I mean the lineup is not that calming lol
So babe, where are we?
a famous Leshan eating street
Is it famous? it's pretty famous. Apparently we should know about this actually.
we just stumbled across this on our way back
to the station, so
We decided to ride our bikes to the station. It's pretty flat and it's such a good exercise and
So much to see. I'm so glad we did that or else we would never have found this place
Ni Hao (hello in Chinese)
so nice
Thank you
welcome to come back next time (in Chinese)
Watch out.
What is it? It's like a desert
that's a lifestyle. this lady, she works here. she's not even selling
She's over there like eating food and then as soon as she sees people, she just comes back selling something.