With China’s high-speed train system, the 100-mile trip to Leshan took only an hour, a perfect day trip from Chengdu. Based on our experiences so far, Leshan is a prototypical Chinese city: many, many uninspired skyscrapers, grey tones, and a haze of pollution – but the real draw is just outside the city. The Leshan Buddha, at 233 feet, is the tallest pre-modern statue in the world. The massive stone carving was constructed in the Tang Dynasty between 713 and 803. It is a remarkable and awe-inspiring accomplishment, given the simple tools, intensive labor, and multi-generational effort it took to build. Although crowds were intense, as at most popular tourist attractions in China, we had a great visit and were wowed by the scale of the Buddha.
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