Dinner this evening is in a local restaurant with a reputation for its fine food. BLD Day 7 - Today embark on an excursion to the Leshan Giant Buddha stone statue. Some 200 feet in heights, it is the largest ancient carving of a Maitreya Buddha. The site is located at the confluence of three rivers and is set into a cliff of Mt. Linyun. The statue was begun in 713 A.D. and took some 90 years to complete.
Lunch is en route.
Dinner this evening is at the hotel. BLD Day 8 - Today you leave Chengdu to drive to Chongquing, a distance of about 250 miles on good roads. En route visit the spectacular Dazu Rock Carvings. Here some 50,000 figures, dating to 892 A.D. are an amazing sight. The figures are carved into the face of a mountain and represent deities from Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.