After a good night sleep in a room full of teddy bears (Remember the name of the Hotel) we had our breakfast and went to the bus station to get to the holy mountain Emei Shan. Based on the weather, afternoon would get a bit rainy, and the fact that we did not want to do a 2 hour drive through the mountains twice with Charlotte to get up and down we decided to do only the lower part of the mountain.

After about 30 minutes of bus ride we arrived at the Wannian Cable station and wanted to buy the ticket… and that was a shock. We had to pay 185 RMB entry fee as well ass 65 RMB for the cable car, altogether 630 RMB. A very big bite in our budget, but then again, when you’re at a holy mountain and made the trip you do not say no. Only thing we were thinking when seeing the hordes of Chinese tourist later on was that is must be even more expensive for them.

After a short cable car ride we arrived at the Wannian monastery and had our first experience with the, sometimes very aggressive, monkeys who live on the mountain. They jump on tourist who have water bottles outside or open backpacks and steal what they can get. But we were warned and got sticks for walking and for ‘hitting the monkey’ as our guesthouse owner said. Only problem was that Charlotte was now very keen on hitting a monkey, not the best education 😉

to be continued…..