Emeishan Voyage Tips and guide

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From Leshan Bus Station the bus ride should cost ¥8, or there is bus 601 for ¥5. The journey takes around an hour.

From Chengdu there are frequent bus from Xinnanmen Bus Station for ¥34 (as of Mar 2018).

• 29.587163103.5196761 Emei Railway Station (峨眉站, Emei Station), Nanchen Street, Shengli Town (胜利镇南陈街) (in the southeastern part of the city's main urban area). Serves regular-speed trains. A regular-speed train from Chengdu Railway Station or Chengdu South Railway Station takes around two to three hours. (updated Apr 2019)

• 29.578819103.4643052 Emeishan Railway Station (峨眉山站, Emeishan Station), Xiuhu Avenue (秀湖大道) (about half-way between the city's main urban area and the entrance to Emeishan National Park). Serves high-speed trains. If you arrived in Chengdu Shuangli Airport, you can take a high speed rail directly to Emeishan Railway Station ¥56, or ¥66 from Chengdu West / South Railway Station (as of Mar 2019). The train should be departing every two hours, and the journey takes around an hour. (updated Apr 2019)

Map of Emeishan

Buses are convenient. From the long distance bus station, catch bus 1 and then bus 5 to get to Baoguo and vice versa.

• 29.591873103.4899341 Dafo Monastery (大佛禅院, Great Buddha Monastery), 274 Foguang Road South (佛光南路274号) (Bus routes 601 and Emei 8 both stop outside the main entrance), ☏ +86 833 5565047. 08:30-17:30. According to some sources, this monastery, which covers an area of around 400 mu (about 27 hectares), is the largest Buddhist monastery in China. It was built during the Ming Dynasty at a site in the city's eastern suburbs. It was best known for a 12-metre-high bronze statue of Avalokiteśvara that is said to have had a thousand hands and a thousand eyes. During the Great Leap Forward campaign (1958-1962), the statue was melted down and the original buildings were destroyed. This new version of the monastery, which opened in 2008, is in the city's south. Free. (updated Apr 2019)

• 29.519722103.33251 Emeishan National Park

Sweet skin duck. Sweet skin duck is improved from spiced duck, so it is also called sweet skin spiced duck. Sweet skin duck followed the Qing Dynasty imperial food process. Excavated and improved by the folk, its brine has unique characteristics, with brown and red color, crispy and slightly sweet skin, pleasant aroma, or crisp and sweet, or thick, attached to the tender meat, taste is not inferior to Beijing roast duck. (updated Oct 2024)

Rice candy. Rice candy is a famous traditional snack, the snack is sweet and delicious, with rice fragrance, rice candy is mainly made of glutinous rice and white sugar. (updated Oct 2024)

Leaf rice cake. Leaf rice cake is a traditional snack in Sichuan. Traditional food for Qingming Festival in western Sichuan and Spring Festival in southern Sichuan. Yerba has different names and characteristics in different regions. (updated Oct 2024)

• Emei orange. Emei orange has a long history of cultivation. Ancient people used it as a perfume substitute because of its aromatic smell in the peel. Fruit oblate or similar pear shape, single fruit weight 100-170 grams, thick skin orange yellow, rough skin, neat meat, sour taste and strong, is a kind of nutritious fruit. (updated Oct 2022)
• Emei bamboo shoots. Emei bamboo shoot is a famous specialty of Mount Emei. There are many varieties of it, such as fresh bamboo shoots, salted bamboo shoots and so on. The Emei bitter bamboo shoots are very big, loved by consumers, and have been sold in Chengdu and other places. (updated Oct 2022)

• Emei Snow (éméi xuě) - Popular local soft drink.

Mount Emei Gaoqiao Li Hengbang Hantian Resort Hotel

Mount Emei Tourist passenger transport Center

• Chengdu
• Kunming
• Leshan - Relaxed city and home to Leshan Grand Buddha, amongst other things.