R & R Experience

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The rest and recreation starts just after we finish our teaching and exhibition.

Early in the morning, we travelled to Cheng Du with a bus prepared by the NeiJiang Youth Organization. That was a 3 hours journey. It’s already noon when we reach Cheng Du. We left our main luggage in the hotel, and headed towards Emei city. We had our lunch there. It was already 3pm while we start to go up Mount Emei. The bus driver wasn’t very friendly. However we enjoyed ourselves in the journey to “Lei Dong Pin”, where we take cable car to get to the very top of Mount Emei. The scene along the road was awesome! We experienced the beauty of the nature. Halfway along the journey, we start to see snow beside the road. The feeling of excitement just rush up to our mind. Yes! Its snow!!! The bus driver stopped the bus to chain up the wheels, while everyone of just alight to enjoy the snow. Later we continued our journey and finally we reach “Lei Dong Pin” at around 4pm. The bus driver suggested us to stay a night at the hotel before going up to the very top of Mount Emei, “Jin Ding”. The reason was it will be very cold up there and probably foreigners like us won’t stand the coldness.

We took his advice, and after check in, we went for a walk around the hotel. Every one of us felt so excited when we realize that we could have an hour free skiing at the skiing station beside. We went to the skiing station, but it was closed. We then took lots of pictures there, and played a snow fight there. It was so fun! That night we had our dinner in the hotel, and just went asleep.

The next day, the hotel worker woke us up at 6am telling us that we might have a chance to see sunrise at the cable car station. Some of us quickly dressed up and went up to the cable car station. We waited and waited, but sunrise never happen, probably the fog was too thick, until we couldn’t enjoy that very precious moment. With disappointment, we went back to the hotel and wake up the others. Then together, we went skiing. That was the very first time experience for most of our team members, but everyone enjoyed themselves. Who knows? Maybe this is the only time we ski in our lifetime!

After an hour, everyone went back to the hotel and checked out. Then, we head towards the cable car station. There was a long queue In the station, but eventually we reached the top also. There were lesser fog at the top, and the scene there is even more attractive. We finally saw that very big statue of Buddha. We were stunned by that statue. How could human even possible to build such big statue when the only way to come up here is by cable car or by climbing? We visited the three temples up there, which is known to be built using bronze, silver and gold respectively. That gold temple is known as “Jin Ding”. It really looks like some kind of building in palace. Of course, we took numerous photos up there.

After an hour, we gather and went down to Emei City. By the time we reach Emei City, it was already 6pm. Quickly we find ourselves a hotel, check in, settle down, and we go for food! There was a street selling lots of variety of nice food. We walk around the city, and visited some street stalls, to get some cheap, nice stuff, until when we feel tired, we went back to our hotel, and go asleep.

The next day, we took 2 vans and head to Le Shan. We climb up all the way to see the big LeShan Buddha. Along the road, we visited a temple nearby. There were 500 hundred of “LoHan” statue inside. We also visited a village along the road, called “Yu Cun”. They sell lots of food and beautiful souvenirs there. However due to time constrain, we had to go along and miss the nice food. After a while, we finally see the big LeShan Buddha. We listened to the tour guide there and learn some history of this Buddha statue.

After we took enough photos, we went down and head towards Cheng Du, where we will spend our very last night there. We reach Cheng Du at around 4pm. After settling down, we hunt for food again! (Why always food?) Everyone of us went for a walk around in the big city. We bought quite a lot of souvenirs.

That very last night, we all gathered in one room, and had a party. We fool around as the world ends tomorrow. In the end everyone felt so tired and start to fall asleep. But that was already late at night. Or perhaps I should say, early in the next morning.

That morning we went to “Zhu Ge Liang”’s temple. It was built to remember one great general in the China during the war of 3 kingdoms. We learnt a lot of history there. Later we went to a famous street beside the temple, which is named “Jing Li”. Its famous for tradition food, and games. We really enjoyed our time there. Eventually we had to leave at noon. We rush our very last minute to get our last souvenirs in Cheng Du, and headed to the airport on 4pm. We know, we will miss this place, we will miss this trip.

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