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Water, stone and high valleys

A regional view of Sichuan

Follow the Min and the Yangtze, then climb into the high valleys, to see how the regions and their places sit across Sichuan. Points are representative references, not boundaries, gates or routes.

Sichuan
Chengdu Deyang Leshan Ya'an Aba Ganzi Liangshan Yibin Zigong Heming Teahouse Jinsha Site Dujiangyan Sanxingdui Leshan Giant Buddha Mount Emei Mengding Mountain Dengchigou Hejiangmen Shenhai Well Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Taoping Qiang Village Suopo Towers Dege Printing House Jianchang Ancient City Mianyang Guangyuan Meishan Nanchong Luzhou Li Bai Memorial Yuewang Tower Mianyang Science City Qianfo Cliff Mingyue Gorge Huangze Temple Sansu Shrine Qingshen Bamboo Weaving Langzhong Ancient City Nanchong Silk Park Luzhou Old Pits Fubao Ancient Town Wuhou Shrine Du Fu Thatched Cottage

Approximate regional orientation · north is up · not for navigation

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Leshan.

Leshan sits where three rivers meet and where a Tang dynasty Buddha was cut into the cliff. The city and the mountain are usually visited together, but they are different landscapes.

The Leshan Giant Buddha seen from the river
The Leshan Giant Buddha seen from the river

Leshan

Leshan Giant Buddha

The Buddha from the water

From a boat below Leshan the 71-metre Buddha stops being a wall of detail and becomes a proportion: head, shoulders, hands, river.

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Leshan Giant Buddha

The 71-metre seated Buddha cut into the red sandstone cliff at Leshan.

Mount Emei

The 3,099-metre mountain south of Leshan, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains.
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  1. The Leshan Giant Buddha seen from the river王计 / CC BY 2.5 · CC BY 2.5 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. The Golden Summit of Mount Emei王计 / CC BY 2.5 · CC BY 2.5 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.