the trip was for Mount Qincheng for my second day in Chengdu , i rented a mini van to head there .

Going there ,We were diverted to the rear of the mount , since the road heading to the front of MT Qincheng was close, i talked with the lady in the ticket counter in the Rare entrance and she told me that the view in the front was totally different on the scenery at the back, anyway , she said the entrance ticket was cheaper at the back at 20 yuan compare to the front entrance ticket which is 90 yuan , i guess WHS should divide this in to three site, 2 for mount Qincheng ( front and back ) and 1 for Dujianyan , and i should be back again next time, since the front entrance was not open.

The mount was a nice climb , there is two cable cars heading to the top ( the peak is white cloud temple) , Try to buy the ticket of the cable car going up and down , since u will not have enough time coming down if you are NOT staying over night in Mt Qincheng ,(If you decided to buy the ticket going up only and suddenly wanted to buy the cable car ticket coming down, u will be charge double coming down ,on the counter there on top. so that means u will be paying three rides per sector, You have no option nor bargain with the people in the ticket counter , since there are guards who are maintaining the site are soldiers , Chinese army soldier) the last cable car closes at 6 pm , first cable cars ride is about 20 minutes while the second is about 45 minutes , their is two mountain ridges to over come on the second cable car, as u head up the air will be going to be thin, so try to stay fit before the trip,From the first cable car to the second cable car there is a climb of 45 minutes , and the climb is quite steep,After the second cable , there will be another 1 hour to climb up. Another set of trail and stairs, there are small buddha statues that are etch on the wall, there is a small wind vent ( 3 meter by 2 meter in dimension ) in the center of the mountain , the stairs is usaully wet, the stairs heading up is quite slippery , but is a nice climb up, since u will see the small buddha on the wall of the small vent going up.After an hour u will reach the top which is the WHITE CLOUD TEMPLE , not much up there, only a 7 foot Multiple arms Buddha . the climb is exception nice, will let u realize how fit u are . The only thing nice heading to the top are the buddhas on the mountain wall, up all at a size of 1 feet high , attach to the walls going to the temple.And of course the mountain nice scenery ,

ahh by the way , after the second cable car and your still heading up White cloud Temple, there will be a cross trail , there will be two confusing direction going up, This is after the destroyed hostel, there will be two sets stair on the cross trail, one with arrow going up to the white cloud temple, while the other is heading down also going to the white cloud temple, go to the route down , since the stairs going up, you will discovers its not an easy trail going up, is NOT Climbable, they must have been destroyed by the Earthquake on 2008. there is actually no visible trails.

this is the third day in Chengdu and i was a little apprehensive , if my stay in Chengdu will give me enough time to visit the Dujianyan Irrigation system , since my main purpose to Chengdu is the Leshan DAFU , the Dujiangyan was full when i was there, but most of the people who went there that day were locals, the place was more of a garden park rather than a site , it is well maintain, with fancy shops located along the way inside the park, there is a corner stall that sell statues, that also have several TV explaining how the irrigation system works,in several language subtitle .

I was amaze on the structure how they stop water in the old days, a used of multiple 30 cm round stone that is place in a bamboo wooden circular roll as u can seen on the picture ,with a triangular wooden peg to hold the water , try to visit this site and u will know with out this irrigation, Chengdu will be a big lake,