After seeing the giant panda, it was a long bus ride to Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛). Leshan Giant Buddha is a stone statue being carved directly into the side of a hill overlooking the confluence of three rivers – Minjiang (岷江), Dadu (大渡) and Qingyi (青衣). The three rivers coming together had created choppy...
Chengdu Sichuan
My knowledge of Chengdu (成都) was confined to what I have picked up from reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三国演义). The city where Liu Bei (刘备) established Shu Kingdom (蜀国), an important geographical stronghold which presents defensive advantages to its rulers. And also the reputation as a heavenly state (天府之国) for its vast...