Don't Skip This! The Leshan Giant Buddha Experience China 🇨🇳

If you look over there into the distance there is a giant Buddha carved directly out of the rock standing 71 meters tall and it was built in the Tang dynasty and that is where we're going to go today. I wanted to see if you could see it from there but you can't so what we have to do is go across this bridge and then there's a hike you can do up into the hills and then you get pretty sure you get to the Buddha's head and then you can walk down to the Buddha's feet as well and that guy over there getting his hair cut and another another guy getting a cheeky little massage there. I wouldn't mind a massage actually my shoulders are killing me. I can't believe how cold it is. To be honest it's pretty good because the hike's about an hour and a half I think so I'll get warmed up on the hike. Oh what is that there? Is that a booty? What is that? Some woman riding an elephant. That's an elephant. Alligator. I don't know why I said elephant then. Oh yeah look at her go. What is that all about? She's got booty and that is so funny. I wasn't expecting to see a naked woman on an alligator or a crocodile whichever one that is. I just got a ticket. There's two different Buddhas. I thought there was. I had a look online. There's the one that's carved into the rock and then there's one underground as well like in a cave not just on the edge of a cave so they're just writing some stuff down for me now like directions. It was 40 yuan for the first original one that I was wanting to go see and then it's another 80 to go and see the one that's in the cave but the one that's in the cave is meant to be really cool so looks like I'll be here for a little while as well but I reckon we'll be here for a few hours at least because it's quite a walk. You can see it there that's where we are there we've got to go there to the inside one and then here for the outside okay so I think I figured that out basically go and see the outside one first and then go into the cave and use your passport which I only have a photo of thankfully because you need that for your ticket. I haven't got a bag or anything with me. I thought I was going to be just going to see that one but then I did look online to see if that one in the cave was in this location and I think basically it didn't say it was but it is look at that it's pretty cool here so this is a UNESCO world heritage site but originally the Buddha the one that's carved into the rock it's situated where three rivers meet and it was built to calm the waters for the ships passing by the rivers it's pretty cool look at that as well can you go in there I guess you can't right open that thing there's a few things like along the way but I can't film everything because I literally brought one battery with me so I want to save my battery I'll film a little bit of the I know like this stuff where this gets smaller and smaller but I can't film everything because my battery will run out so I'll film a few things along the way and then I just want to get to the Buddha first before basically waste all my battery before I get there it's actually not that far of a walk that 1.8 kilometers didn't take that long picture time it is busy up here that last shot there you can see the three rivers where they're meeting but yeah maybe if you came here earlier it would be less busy I've also got the speakers off again same as on the Xi'an old wall yeah yeah it's busy should we go in here before we see the Buddha oh they're cool it is very busy here if you're going to come I would definitely call Mary definitely oh my look at this they've got candles over there do you know I've seen the joystick things before but not the candles candles are cool they're massive though aren't they look at that should we go down and see the Buddha that is why we're here isn't it let's go it is just around this corner look at that you can see the head which is massive I don't know if I can get anywhere where I can see it literally picture time heaven here it's way bigger than on the pictures it's massive I see the boat down there if you go to a different location you can actually get a boat ride it takes you to the front it's that one piece of marble it's pretty cool that see them stairs down there I bet you used to be able to walk down those stairs to get to the you can't anymore which is a shame that'd be a cool cool view walking down the broth so a lot of people have said that's the tallest Buddha in the world but it's not it's the tallest seated carved into stone brother not the tallest in the world but the tallest seated one this is one thing about being in China if you're going to do tourist stuff it's always busy always look at that view over there shall we have a look at this view over here and then we'll go and do the caves yeah there's the boat there look it's pretty big that like it's way bigger than on the pictures there's one of the boats over there look I don't know if I need that view of the boat obviously I was joking and I've come and got on the boat because you can't not come on and get the boat right so let's see what it looks like from the river if you look over there you can see where we walk down through the cliff side basically look all the way down there do you know what it's not as impressive as I thought it was going to be what you're about to see when we go inside is a lot better than that I mean it still looks pretty cool but yeah it's better inside when we go inside say goodbye to the Buddha and let's go back to there it's an epic like work of art basically isn't it carved right into the rock you have to walk all the way down like through like a cave system but like basically the edge of the rock and then they've like tunneled through as well yeah it's really cool onwards we go wow that one is even more impressive isn't it wow as well on that side I can't believe people are just going to see that that must be obviously like the internet famous one but this one is way better and less crowded as well I'm buzzing that I paid for that extra this extra little bit it is so much nicer in here look at this wow yeah yeah this is way better than that other one so much better look at this what this is all carved right out of the rock it's just one big massive piece of art barely isn't it look at it the pillars as well this is phenomenal it's so cool I'm well happy I came here just yeah no words really it's just cool look at all the faces oh wow so cool if you're coming to Leshan to do that big Buddha definitely come and do this one yeah it's pretty epic wait till you see this I really enjoyed that inside cave part it was way better than I thought it was going to be yeah very impressed you've definitely got to pay the 80 yuan I mean what is that nine quid or something like that ten ten dollars yeah you know even this garden's pretty cool I think we are getting to the end of this little part so big Buddha bay declined demon pool should we go and look at the demon pool do we get to wash away our demons is that the demon pool look at those with the boobies out cool fish actually look at that fish goldfish she's got a boobie on her as well there look at that I think we're at the end back up these steps I'm pretty sure takes you back up to where we were before big Buddha bay maybe not let's have a look up here before we before we leave and miss something oh no I've not been up here oh wow this is cool would have missed this my god how many steps is do we get to go all the way up them steps yeah we do can you see the Buddha there there do you know what this camera I've got is not going to do this place any justice so if you are anywhere near here get yourself down here oh wow yeah cool they're pretty steep these stairs can't go up haven't we let's be honest can't come all the way and then knock off the stairs but like us I mean I don't know if you're gonna be able to pick up how steep this is but it's pretty steep see at the top very nearly tripped over then that would not have been good my legs are burning wow that is steep wow my breath big time more caves oh wow this is cool yeah very cool that is the end of the walk around tour of all of these pretty epic sculptures figures buddhas yeah I really enjoyed it here I didn't think it was going to be this good especially the inside cave part that's where we were before and we climbed up the stairs all the way up there now we're heading down to the east gate anyway I've been oh I nearly fell down the stairs then nearly fell up the stairs before nearly fell down the stairs I hope you enjoyed the video and I'll see you in the next one peace