UNESCO world heritage. Dazu Rock Carvings. Mixing Buddhism, Confucius and Taoist religion and philosophy together.
Another great cultural experience.

There are five places. This is the biggest and most famous. There are five places in total. We paid for the first two and most visited, and then the rest are free as they are smaller and few people came there. We had the last one to our selves at the site and only met a local guest when we entered. We looked so unusual that she ran back to speak with us about where we are from and our very light skin and hair that is the best icebreaker ever – at the same level as walking a puppy or traveling with kids 😅🐲👩🏼🇨🇳

Carvings are both impressive and detailed. It’s also a version of Buddhism that reminds me more of the Mongolian Buddhism 🕉️ than of the Buddhism ☸️ most Danes will have met in Thailand 🇹🇭 The south East Asian one seem milder.

Here the Buddhas are on top.
Then the wise men as Confucius.
Below seem to be people tortured in hell for eternity.

The peacock 🦚 is beautiful and the lying Buddha.

We visited three of the five places.

Obs use mosquito oil or wear long pants despite the heat as there are small black flies that bites on site 2.

The second site is smaller with longer rows of Buddhas and also other religious figures as the female orc who used to kidnap and eat children, but the Buddha enlightened her and she became the protector of children 🧒🙏🏼🕉️☯️☸️🈯️📢

A Chinese traveler had visited what seemed to be every single site in the regions here and told Laerke about them for a looong time. In the meantime Ella and I enjoyed white peaches and oranges both by locals and ever so many ice teas … and well, got eaten by small black flies.

The way in and out of these places are looong…. Featuring nature and local sellers.

The third place was peaceful. It started again with a looong staircase decorated by yin yang ☯️ lamps and the local lady who initiated a conversation was my highlight. When I finally got up and where ready to throw my ass in the bench to rest, Ella stopped me a second before sitting on this huge wasp 🐝 Instead we got in peacefully and enjoyed the sleeping cats and the dragon 🐉 status that looked alive and mostly looked like a crocodile 🐊

As always the local guards had equipment for evacuating, firefighters 🧯 and even police equipment. My father trained with Chinese teachers of civilian rescue staff while he did the same – even the fourth biggest school had 3-4.000 students at the time and they came from both firefighters, police and military personnel.
With the overload of the electricity here it’s logical that they worry about the risk of fire 🔥 With the amount of people, crowd control also make sense as I have worried about panics a few times in the middle of crowds here. But is these temples, it was peaceful.

The translation of the signs are hilarious
Keep of grass – one plant 🪴 one world 🌍 One step, one community…
Staff only – this is not a tourist path way and visitors should not go this way.

As is most t-shirts with grammatical errors that are just sweet:
Be the best version yourself.
Good. Lucky.
This is yes.
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