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Two Day Trip: and Leshan Budda Emei Mountain
Date: August 4th – 5th, 2016
Cost: Approximate $160 per person based on 10 person tour and double occupancy
The Leshan Giant Buddha (simplified Chinese: 乐山大佛; traditional Chinese: 樂山大佛; pinyin: Lèshān
Dàfó) is a 71-metre (233 ft) tall stone statue, built during the Tang Dynasty, depicting Maitreya. It is carved
out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part
of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan.
Mount Emei ([ɤ̌.měi̯ ]; Chinese: 峨眉山[1]; pinyin: Éméi shān) is a mountain in Sichuan
Province, China, and is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mt. Emei sits at
the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are known as Daxiangling. A
large surrounding area of countryside is geologically known as the Permian Emeishan Large
Igneous Province, a large igneous province generated by the Emeishan Traps volcanic eruptions
during the Permian Period. At 3,099 metres (10,167 ft), Mt. Emei is the highest of the Four
Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.