Jingli Street Chengdu Sichuan Province China: Mt. Emei: LeShan Giant Buddha: Shandong-Mt. Tai: Philippines.
Revisiting Jingli Street Chengdu July 2007
In July of 2007 I traveled to Macao/Macau for 9 days and thereafter traveled to Chengdu to meet up with my friend Mingxing who is studying there. I had asked him to plan something for us to do. We first traveled to Leshan and saw the Giant Sleeping Buddha, and then spent two days climbing Mt. Emei. The first 7 days of our holiday went according to plan, but then the rain hit and we had to cancel our final trip. With nothing else to do, we headed off to Jingli street, which we had visited before, and concerning which I have previously published a photographic file.
Really, we only went there to eat pizza at Carole's Restaurant, but noting a few changes in the area, decided to take a few new shots. From the vantage point on the upstairs balcony of the restaurant, I started off the process by taking photos of people in the street who kept pointing out the foreigner. The photos presented here (except for the temple) are in the order in which they were taken. I hope you enjoy them.
Links to all other articles on Chengdu, LeShan and Mt. Emei, are listed at the end of the article.
Dining on the Balcony of Carole's Restaurant.
This part of the restaurant has changed. The pizza kitchen used to be up here.
These next two photographs look from JingLi street into the Temple complex next door.
Taken from Carole's restaurant over the rooftops looking toward the temple above.
That's Mingxing standing by the bin waiting for me to finish taking photographs.
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
