Mount Emei In-depth Hiking Tour - 2 Days

Get up early and meet your tour guide around at 07:00 AM, then drive about 2-3 hours to the foot of Mount Emei where we will take a park pus to Wannian Temple Car Park and start to walk from there. Our first stop is the most important Buddhist monastery on the mountain - Wannian Temple. This temple is keeping a precious Saddharmapundarika Sutra gifted by the emperor of Thailand in Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). After the visit by Wannian we will start to hike from Wannian Temple to Leidongping on steep stairs. The whole hiking takes about 7~8 hours to finish. While you have some free time to visit monasteries and historical sites along the way. As the stone steps rising up, the sceneries changes - valleys, forest, etc. We will possibly enter to monkeys before arriving to Xixiang Pond.

Xixiang Pond, or Elephant Bathing Pool is at the elevation of 2000m. We will have a visit to this monastery before more walking up. We should leave Elephant Bathing Pool no late than 3-4pm. From Elephant Bathing Pool to Leidongping is the last bit of walking for around 2 hours continuous ascending. We shall arrive Leidongping before 6pm. Today's accommodation will have decent shower place. After arrival, take shower and relax.

This tour involves hiking for long hours each day. Please prepare necessary items for each day's hiking such as rainproff, warm layer, sunglasses, sun cream, sun hat, walking shoes, etc. Mt. Emei is a humid place when we hike we sweat a lot. Please prepare extra base layer for each day. There is no road access to the lodges for each night so evrerthing we need to carry by our own. Therefore you are recommended to pack light and take what's only necessary for the hike.

Walking 10km, from 1000m-2400m, strenuous pace

If you want to watch sunrise of Emei, you are recommended to use the cable car at early morning from above Leidongping to get to the summit before sunrise. Watching sunrise is for some a big deal because you can make a wish when sun rises at the summit of Emei. But it will also depend on the weather. Watching sunrise will require us to wake up as early as 5am or even earlier if it's in the busy season when lots of other people will also come up to use the cable car, requiring extra waiting time. If sunrise doesn't interest you, you can choose to walk up the final part of hiking for 4km to the Golden Summit from Leidongping for about 2 hours. This last 4km is also very steep and usually has more people walking this part since Leidongping is the bus terminal and most of the visitors can acccess by bus. The latter bit of the hiking is less steep. You can feel the temperature drops once we get close to the summit. The summit is at the elevation of 3000m and usually has lots of other visitors.

After visiting around the summit of its temples, views we will go back to Leidongping to catch tourist bus to go down to the base of Emei and then drive back to Chengdu. If we walked up then recommended to use the cable car down. En route driving back to Chendgu there is optional visit to Leshan Buddha Park. If you would like to add Leshan Buddha we should arrive the Buddha Park before 2pm and spend around 2 hours in the park to visit the Buddha before drive back to Chengdu. Tour ends.

Walking 2-10km, medium pace