Mt. Emei

Mt. Emei is a truly amazing place I just left today and I already know that I want to go back. It is considered holy buddhist ground. It is covered with monastaries and breathtaking scenery in any direction you could possibly look. It was named a world cultural treasure in 1996. Right now though I am having trouble finding the words to describe the beauty of the mountain. It is in the middle of what I would call a rainforest it was cloudy and trees where everywhere slightly overwhelming for someone from Southwest Kansas. It was truly amazing you could go around a bend or climb a set of stairs and see a waterfall or a 1000 year old tree. I took a lot of pictures but I know they will not be able to do justice to the entire picture of everything that I saw. Incredible is the only word that I can use to describe it. There where amazing monastaries and temples which we got a chance to visit. One of the funnest things we did was visit the monkey sanctuary. This was oddly enough the most crowded place on the mountain. There was an area that was between to rock walls probably the size of a football field where there were wild monkeys running around loose and you could feed them and take pictures of them and with them. It was funny when we first got in the area we where upset because we could only see a few monkeys and they where far away then all of a sudden we walked past one on the suspension bridge. It was really cool but not the coolest thing that I did on the moutain. You must keep reading for that story because it deserves post all to itself. continued.......