Sunday (December 21) Trip Up Emei Mountain to Fu Hu Temple

We decided to take the CD player we had bought in Chengdu to the nuns we were teaching English to in Fu Hu Temple. We contacted the nuns and she coordinated our visit so that our good friends, Bogdan and Weiyan, would meet us at the temple at around 1100.

We walked down to the main street and caught a taxi up to the temple. We arrived at around 1030 and decided to wait outside for our friends to arrive. I, of course, took several pictures as we waited.


Always a great picture - the entrance to the Fu Hu Temple

We decided a long time ago to buy the nuns a CD player so they could listen to the English CDs we gave them to study English.

We got to the temple about thirty minutes early so I took some pictures outside the temple as we waited for Bogdan and Weiyan.

Waiting for Bogdan and Weiyan and taking pictures.

A Sunee portrait.

This is the sales area outside the temple where we bought the Emei Mountain map.

We bought a new tour map of Emei Mountain. Eventually we will have it mounted on something. I will take a better picture and display it in this blog as well.



The perpetual guard dog outside the temple entrance.

Here we meet our nun friends and visit. We presented our Christmas present to the nuns.

The CD player Sunee bought for the nuns to study English. The nuns did not realize it was brand new and bought specifically for them.

The nuns were heading toward their lunch as I watched them move into the dining hall.

The nuns in the temple shared their lunch as is normal. The prayers and music were very exotic. Here we see nuns serving other nuns during the lunch.

Nuns at lunch. This was a very exotic experience as we watched their prayers and singing.

We shared lunch with our two nun friends and, of course, it was vegetarian. It was also really great!


Group photo (minus the photographer) of our visit to Fu Hu Temple.

As we were leaving the temple, Sunee and Weiyan took a few minutes to visit on the top steps of the temple.

As I was taking this picture, Sunee wanted to make sure that I did not step on the threshold of the temple door. Bad luck. Of course, I knew this so I did not do it.