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This article records my trip to Mount Emei from May 10 to May 12, 2020, and this article can also be used as a travel guide to Mount Emei for the reference of Lao Tie who want to go to Mount Emei. This article is about 10,000 words.
Mount Emei is located on the southwestern edge of the Sichuan Basin, with an altitude of 3,099 meters, and is known as the "Four Famous Buddhist Mountains in China" along with Wutai Mountain in Shanxi, Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang and Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui.
In fact, since I first went to college, I had plans to go to Mount Emei (after all, my school is located in Mianyang, Sichuan, not far from Mount Emei, and it can be reached in about two hours by high-speed rail), but for various reasons, this plan has been stranded throughout my four-year undergraduate career. There are many reasons, so many of which I am too lazy to list them all, so I won't list them all, anyway, it's really over without going.
Nowadays, as a "member of society" who has graduated for almost a year, when I have settled in Chengdu, with a high degree of freedom in the distribution of working hours, and when the epidemic in Sichuan Province has been generally effectively controlled, I once again came up with the idea of climbing Mount Emei on the occasion of May Day this year, after all, it has been delayed for five years.
However, it is impossible for me to go on the May Day statutory holiday, and the reason is self-explanatory: the May Day holiday will definitely be the peak tourist period, and it will be crowded, which will greatly affect the play experience. Therefore, I initially set the travel time for May 6, just after the holiday ended.
The next step is to start looking for teammates in the same industry, and the old irons who have read my previous travelogues will find that I travel alone almost every time, so someone will definitely want to ask, why am I looking for someone to join me this time? Good question! Because climbing a mountain is different from traveling to those big cities after all, big cities can be played by themselves, there is no problem at all, but climbing a mountain is a kind of travel that tests a large degree of patience, which is very physically exerting and boring.
However, the process of finding teammates was not very smooth, and I started looking for them on April 30 and couldn't find a safe teammate until May 7. Therefore, on May 7, I decided to simply climb by myself, and then I bought a bullet train ticket for May 8 at 19:50 pm.
The reason why I didn't leave directly on the 7th was because I still had a manuscript to write at this time, and I thought I could finish it before the evening of the 8th and set off smoothly, but I was wrong. The draft on the 8th was extremely tricky, and until 6 p.m., I still felt that I couldn't finish it for a while, so I changed my ticket from 19:50 to 21:57. Unexpectedly, at 9 p.m., I still felt like I couldn't finish writing! Simply decide not to leave first, return the ticket and concentrate on revising the draft, and the change and refund are shown in the figure below:
After revising the manuscript, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, at this time I decided to get up early the next morning and set off, and after thinking about it, I bought a high-speed rail ticket at 8:05 on the 9th. Unexpectedly, I actually lay in bed and played with my phone all night...... The feeling of climbing the mountain after an all-night stay has already been tried in Huashan back then, and I don't want to experience it again.
Well, after playing with my phone all night, I changed my ticket to 12:21 noon at 6 o'clock in the morning, and planned to sleep until 11 noon to catch the high-speed train. Next, I played with my phone for another two hours, fell asleep after 8 a.m., and when I woke up again, it was over...... It's already 2 pm, congratulations to me for sleeping perfectly through the departure time, and I didn't even have a chance to refund the ticket money. The ticket is shown in the picture below:
Probably this is the disadvantage of traveling alone, the freedom is too high, resulting in no power to restrain oneself at all, and even the departure of the car is Buddhist.
Just when I was in a mixed mood about missing the car, I suddenly got a new reply to the post I posted a few days ago looking for teammates to go to Mount Emei! The person who replied was a young lady from Hangzhou, who was traveling in Sichuan these days, and at this time she had been playing in Chengdu for two days, preparing to go to Mount Emei next, and happened to see my post, so she decided to team up with me.
I have to say that this is really a coincidence, if I catch up with the car, I really have to climb the mountain by myself, and oversleeping makes me successfully find my teammates who go with me, which is really "misluck and fortune depend, fortune and misfortune"! After some discussion, we unanimously decided to set off at 19:50 on the evening of May 10th, start climbing Mount Emei on the morning of the 11th, and then return on the 12th, accompanied by a sister in Chengdu and her sister's boyfriend
For the sake of convenience, the young lady from Hangzhou is pseudonymized as "Sister T", her sister is pseudonym "Sister J", and her sister's boyfriend is pseudonym "Brother D".
In this way, I have another day of free time, based on the experience and lessons of climbing Mount Hua in 2016 (click here to jump to my Huashan travelogue), I bought a bunch of things suitable for climbing in my bag, including: 1 coat, 2 pairs of gloves, 6 compressed biscuits, 1 roll of rolled paper, 1 pack of wet wipes, 10 ham sausages, 4 Snickers, a fully charged flashlight, 1 thermos cup, 1 bag of raisins, 1 bag of yogurt slices, and 2 spare masks. As shown in the picture below:
The above is indeed all the things I put in my bag when I set out, the things are very complete and practical, and at the same time, they don't weigh much, and they are very suitable for climbing.
On the evening of the 9th, I went to another place and had an all-night hi, and the process will not be shown for the time being.
10th, I set off for Chengdu South Railway Station on time and got on the bullet train bound for Mount Emei at 19:50.
Chengdu is very close to Mount Emei, and the bullet train arrived at Mount Emei Railway Station at 20:59. We booked the B&B in advance, and the B&B owner provided a pick-up service, and after leaving the station, we quickly found the B&B owner's car and met for the first time in the car (we were not in the same carriage when we took the bullet train before).
After taking a car for about ten minutes, we arrived at the homestay, which is near Baoguo Temple, with a good environment and a small courtyard:
Since it is already the off-season for tourism, there are fewer guests, and the boss also gave us free room upgrades (in fact, there is not much significant difference, the room type is the same, It's just from the first floor to the second floor), the inside of the room looks like this, and more than 70 yuan a day is also a good deal:
After putting my bag in the room, just at half past 10 in the evening, I decided to find an ATM machine to get some cash, after all, I suffered a loss without cash in Huashan back then. And I don't know how popular WeChat Alipay on the mountain has become now, so I just took out some and was prepared.
So I started walking under the guidance of the navigation, and at first I passed by the Baoguo Temple, which felt like an ordinary temple:
Later, I crossed a long forest path and posted a photo taken on a streetlighted section:
Gradually, I finally walked to the street, to the place mentioned on the navigation, there is really an Agricultural Bank of China, with an ATM machine, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I withdrew 1,000 yuan in cash at one time, saying that I haven't seen so many big red tickets for a long time-_-||
After withdrawing the cash, I found a large pavilion with "Mount Emei" written next to it, in front of the pavilion is an open space, and there is a large cauldron in the open space, which looks quite majestic, above:
After taking a few photos, I wandered the streets for a while again.
Finally, I returned to the room at the B&B at around 1 am.
Since Sister T said that she would get up at half past 6 on the morning of the 11th and set off, I didn't dare to stay up late, played with my mobile phone a little more, and fell asleep at two o'clock. The biological clock is really a magical thing, I set an alarm at 6:30 in the morning, and I woke up naturally at 6:28, but obviously I was still very sleepy, and I glanced at WeChat, and there seemed to be no movement. So, I changed the alarm to 6:40, tentatively slept for another 10 minutes, and woke up to find that WeChat was still not moving. So, I changed the alarm to 6:55 again, slept for another 15 minutes, woke up to look at WeChat, and there was still no movement, but I didn't dare to continue sleeping.
So I sent a message in the group, and after a few minutes, Sister T came out and replied, "Wake up, I'm so sleepy, do you want to sleep more", in fact, I agree with this proposal, but Sister J also came out to speak at this time, she suggested getting up, and then Sister T also decided to get up, okay, then get up. After washing up quickly, we each brought our things, checked our room cards, and went to eat breakfast provided by the homestay.
Breakfast is not delicious in any way, just steamed buns, steamed buns, porridge, eggs and kimchi, but after all, it is free, so it's good to be able to eat it. Breakfast is shown in the picture:
After breakfast, we had a discussion in the yard and decided on the course of the day.
The detailed map of Mount Emei is as follows:
Generally speaking, there are two routes to climb Mount Emei, as shown in the figure below:
One is line A and one is line B.
Line A passes in order: Wuxian Gang→ Qingyin Pavilion→ Yixian Tian→ Hongchunping→ Jiujiu Road Corner→ Jiulao Cave→ Xianfeng Temple→ Yuxian Temple→ Jiulinggang→ Zhuantianpo→ Xixiangchi→ Luohanpo→ Leidongping→ Jieyin Hall→ Taiziping→ Golden Peak.
Line B passes in order: Wuxiangang→ Qingyin Pavilion→ Bailong Cave→ Wannian Temple→ Elder Ping→ Huayan Peak→ Jiulinggang→ Zuantianpo→ Xixiang Po→ Luohan Slope→ Leidongping→ Jieyin Hall→ Taiziping→ Golden Peak.
As for the farthest route on the far right of the map, it is not used for hiking, but for traveling by car, so it is not considered.
In this case, through comparison, it is clear that Line A passes through more places, the distance is farther, and it is more challenging to climb, so we unanimously decided to climb Line A.
At about 8 o'clock, we set off to the Baoguosi Temple bus station near the homestay, bought a ticket to Wuxian Gang, the fare is 20 yuan per person, and supports Alipay and WeChat payment. After buying the ticket, I got on the bus directly.
There were very few people in the car, or rather, there were only four of us except the driver, we sat in the four seats in the first row, and the driver saw that we came up and did not continue to wait , the car was sent directly, which is really worthy of the off-season for tourism.
The car stopped at a place called Huangwan Station on the way, and more than a dozen people came up, and then it drove all the way to the destination Wuxiangang. Before nine o'clock, the car arrived at Wuxian Gang Station.
Each of us in our shop here bought a bamboo pole to assist in mountaineering and drive away monkeys on the road.
Bamboo poles are very cheap, one only costs two yuan, I chose a pair of gloves with a better feel and bought it, and then I wore a pair of gloves with non-slip rubber in the palm of my hand. Holding a bamboo pole and rushing all the way.
At this time, it suddenly started to rain lightly, and the three of them bought raincoats again at the suggestion of the boss, only I didn't care, Because the weather forecast I read earlier said that it was sunny that day on Mount Emei, I didn't think it would rain heavily, so I really didn't buy it.
Since we had all bought tickets to Mount Emei in advance and completed real-name authentication, we just swiped our ID cards at the entrance and measured our body temperature, and then officially entered the Mount Emei Scenic Area.
After entering, I didn't go far and saw another row of people selling things, and the three of them each bought a pair of waterproof shoe covers on the recommendation of one of the bosses. and a bag of monkey food for 5 yuan, and I still didn't buy anything at this time, even though the rain was already a little heavier now.Next, we walked for a while, and took a few pictures:
But soon, the rain became heavier again, so much that I couldn't stand it anymore, and my shoes began to get soaked. When I saw that something was wrong, I decided to buy a raincoat and waterproof shoe covers to put on the next time I saw a roadside stall, and this kind of slap in the face was also strongly ridiculed by Sister J, but as the saying goes, those who know the current affairs are handsome, and there is no big problem at all-_-||
Soon we saw the roadside stall again, I quickly bought a 10 yuan raincoat and a pair of 10 yuan waterproof shoe covers, the price is okay, not more expensive than what they bought before, maybe because the altitude has not risen significantly? At the same time, Sister T bought a backpack, put the things she was carrying in her hand into that bag and put it on her back. To be honest, the three of them brought a little too much, and at first glance they didn't have the experience of painful mountaineering, after all, a little heavy weight would be infinitely magnified after climbing the mountain for a long time, becoming an extremely heavy burden.
After putting on the raincoat and shoe covers, we continued to walk and climb the steps in the rain, and I have to say that wearing the raincoat and waterproof shoe covers is really comfortable, and I am not afraid of getting wet, and the soles of my feet do not slip when walking. Well, it smells so good!
Just after about 10 o'clock, we arrived at the first place we passed on the planned route - Qingyin Pavilion, which is 710 meters above sea level, which is 2389 meters different from the highest point of 3099 meters above sea level, so it can only be regarded as the first step of the Great Wall.
There is nothing particularly surprising about Qingyin Pavilion, it is a pavilion, we sat on the stool below for a while, ate a little bit of the contents of the bag, Soon it was on the road.
After all, Mount Emei is also one of the important water intake places in China, and the water quality of such mountain spring water must have nothing to say. According to the map, we realized that this is the "first line of sky", the scenery is really good, post a photo:
We sat under the pavilion for another half an hour and ate something again, Sister J and her boyfriend ate a box of self-heating rice, and I nibbled on a piece of compressed biscuit in my schoolbag and drank a glass of plain water that Sister J carried in his bag. While sitting, an elderly group also passed by here and sat down, but it seemed that they were exhausted and were ready to take the car directly up, and told us about their experience of climbing Mount Emei when they were young 40 years ago.
After resting until 11 noon, we continued on our way.
There is also that kind of rope bridge on the road, which is wobbly to walk on, but it is also fun.
Because we have been going up the steps, the physical exertion is really great, we stopped again at 12 noon, there are restaurants with tables on the side of the road, because there are no people in the off-season, so even if you don't order anything, you can sit casually, we sat down around one of the tables, and started eating again, and the rain stopped at this time. Sister J actually brought a self-heating hot pot and got it with her boyfriend here, which is really not too heavy...... Sister T also brought two boxes of self-heating rice (things like this, it is impossible for me to bring them while climbing, after all, they are too heavy), because they are too heavy and don't want to continue carrying them, and I also helped her get things along the way, so she gave me one box and the other box for her to eat by herself. Since it was given to me, then I ate it, and soon the meal was hot, the taste was okay, and it was rare to eat hot food on the mountain, so I ate a Snickers bar by the way, and shared a few ham sausages with them.
After about half an hour, we continued to set off at 12:30, and now our luggage was much lighter, especially the luggage of the three of them. We also saw a group of workers carrying things up the mountain on the way:
They lifted that thing and looked very heavy, and it was already difficult to climb the mountain, but they carried such a heavy thing and walked not slowly at all, which was really amazing!
In the process of continuing to walk, we met a big brother who climbed the mountain alone, the eldest brother is from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and when he looked at the crutches in his hand, he knew that he had climbed many mountains and was very experienced, and then asked, and sure enough.
We walked for several hours this time, basically walking non-stop steps, judging from the map, because in the "ninety-nine turns" section, I have to say that it is really quite a turn, post a few pictures of the scenery on the road:
Sometimes I also see messages like this on the ground:
After about half past two in the afternoon, we entered the monkey area and monkeys began to appear. I have to say that wild animals are inhuman after all, and when I see people carrying bags, they will really come up to grab them, and I only have a backpack on my body, so I am not within the range of the monkey's attack target. And Sister T was much more miserable, she was carrying food in her hand, so she was entangled by the monkey for a long time, and a few of us knocked and shouted with bamboo poles to scare the monkeys away. As for the monkey food that Sister J bought before, she didn't have time to open it and sprinkle it slowly, so she tore open the bag and threw it on the ground, and then several monkeys pounced on it to eat.
When the monkey's mood is relatively stable, take a photo of the monkey:
And the monkeys are really very flexible, they can step on the railing on the side of the road in the picture above and climb all the way, the two monkeys followed us up for a long time, when we sat down to rest in a rest area around 15:30, the monkeys also circled around us, and when I made the action of preparing to open the backpack, the monkey immediately began to poke its head at me, and when I really opened the zipper of the schoolbag, the monkey actually rushed over, reached out and pulled my schoolbag, trying to snatch my schoolbag away. Seeing this, I quickly took out a ham sausage and smashed it in the face, and at the same time scared it sharply with the big brother I had just met, so the monkey jumped on the branch under the railing with the ham sausage, and bit the ham sausage three times five times by two, and I didn't know if I vomited the plastic packaging skin.
We also knew that it was not advisable to stay here for a long time, so we immediately carried our things on our backs and continued on our way, the monkeys still followed us, but did not attack us again, but the monkeys' tracking also motivated us to insist on climbing up, otherwise we had to deal with their attacks.
At about 15:30, we arrived at Jiulao Cave, which is such a doorway:
>Maybe there is more aura here, and the monkeys no longer follow us when they get here, and we have successfully shaken off the monkeys since then. After passing the Jiulao Cave, there is Xianfeng Temple (at an altitude of 1752 meters at this time), Xianfeng Temple looks like this: 
From Xianfeng Temple, it took a short time. We saw a waterfall, and through the sign we learned that it was called "Longqiaogou", as follows:
The water is really clear, and this time this place can squat down to scoop water, I took out my thermos cup and walked to the water's edge, squatted down to fill a full cup, took a sip, and it was really very clear and mellow, we stayed in this place for a while, and ate something by the way, and I drank a whole cup of mountain spring water and filled it in my bag, saving it for later when I was thirsty.
At about 16:30, we continued to walk, this section of the road was relatively flat, and even walked a lot of downhill, and arrived at Yuxian Temple at about 17:20, the eldest brother decided to spend the night at that Yuxian Temple because of physical exhaustion, and woke up the next day to continue climbing. So the four of us said goodbye to him there. Yuxian Temple looks like this:
>We crossed Jiulinggang at 17:35 and began to climb the "drill slope", as the name suggests, is a section of uphill with a large slope, and the steps are constantly going up all the way. Exhausted and climbing until 18:30, we were still on this section of the road, but we saw a roadside restaurant. 
There was not much left in the bag but we were hungry and decided to spend money to eat something here, the items on the menu are slightly more expensive, as shown in the picture:
I ordered a 15 yuan egg fried rice and a plate of 38 yuan bamboo shoot meat slices, which is a bit expensive, but the portion and taste are okay, or maybe it's because I'm too hungry, I think everything I eat is fragrant.
It was past 7 p.m. after we finished eating, and it was starting to get dark.
In order to prevent my flashlight from running out of power, Sister T and Sister J bought another flashlight from the boss. This boss is a straightforward person, he suggested that we climb to Leidongping and stay, and take the cable car to the Golden Peak the next morning, otherwise it would collapse if we climbed directly to the Golden Peak, after all, the road was too far. The three of them felt that the boss made sense, and the three of them were indeed too tired to stand it.
As for me? As we all know, I have always been a person who does not believe in evil, and when I heard the boss say this, I was more determined to climb to the top that night, and claimed that I must arrive before 0:00, so I said that let the three of them live in Leidongping, and then I continued to climb up by myself, at first they didn't believe it, but I didn't need others to believe it or not, anyway, I was done!
After leaving this shop, I continued to climb for half an hour, about 19:40, and finally walked through this drilling slope and arrived at the Elephant Washing Pool, which is a temple, and the appearance of the Elephant Washing Pond looks like this:
Bypassing this elephant washing pool, the sky became darker and darker, and finally it was completely dark at 20:00.
So I turned on my bright flashlight, and the four of us continued to climb the hill relying on the light, and we became more and more tired. Even every twenty or thirty steps we had to stop and rest, as for the waterproof shoe covers we bought in the morning, they had already been worn out and thrown away by us.
Finally, we arrived at Leidongping at an altitude of 2,500 meters at about 21:40, there are indeed many hotels to stay here, the three of them talked about the price for half a day in one of them, and finally opened a twin room at a price of a little more than 100, when I opened the room, I told the boss that I didn't want to stay, I wanted to continue to climb to the golden top, the boss and the waiter repeatedly stopped me, saying that the top of the mountain was very cold, and it was difficult to walk at night, saying that I had to climb until the second half of the night, and my clothes were not enough at all. Of course I know all what he said, I don't care, but he actually said that I can only climb to the golden top in the middle of the night? Then I'm really not convinced!
I first went to the room opened by the three of them for half an hour and replenished the battery on my phone, after all, I didn't know if there was electricity at the top of the mountain. I even did 40 push-ups to test my physical strength, as evidenced by the Keep screenshots. After doing it, I feel basically okay, and it should be no problem to climb another 500 meters to the Golden Peak.
So I set off again at 22:10 with my bag and a bright flashlight.
As soon as I went out, it started to drizzle again, and I didn't care at first, but soon, the rain actually got heavier, so I took out the raincoat in my bag and put it on my body again. The next step is to step on the water in the rain, anyway, the shoes are soaked.
Because there was no one else with me, and because I wanted to walk the 8-kilometer uphill road to the top before 0:00 on May 12, I hardly took a long break along the way, at most I hid in and glanced at the location of my phone when I saw a shed on the side of the road, and the rest of the time I continued to rely on my watch and flashlight to rush forward. At 23:10, because I was too hungry, I stopped to eat a Snickers:
Finally, around 23:40, I arrived at a flat and open area and saw a sign:
I turned on my phone navigation to confirm, well, yes, I'm at the top, I successfully reached the summit of Mount Emei before 0:00 on May 12th!
But at this time, I have not yet reached the real "golden peak", and there are still a few hundred meters away. At this time, I forgot my physical fatigue, and also forgot the low temperature and pouring rain on the top of the mountain, and rushed towards the golden top (by the way, I walked for two hours, there was no one along the way, and there was no one on the top of this mountain, but it was not a big problem, I was never afraid of these).
After I climbed a few more wide steps, I finally reached the golden peak in the true sense!
After looking at my steps, more than 49,000 steps, 33.1 kilometers, 15 hours to achieve, after more than a year, my highest number of steps in a single day was finally refreshed. At the same time, the distance of Route A of Mount Emei was also clearly measured, which was more than 30 kilometers.
But it's too dark, even if my phone camera turns on professional mode + long exposure, I can only take pictures of the iconic Buddha statue of the golden dome like this:
Its true face, I will find a clear network map for you to see, this is it:
After trying to take a picture and failing, I went to the observation deck next to watch the sunrise and took a look, the view was really good, looking down from a distance, I could also see the lights of the city of Mount Emei:
It's just this weather...... I thought to myself that I might not see the sunrise the next morning (this conjecture later came true).
Aftertaking photos at the top of the mountain for a while, I found that it was really cold here, although it was summer, but it was only a few degrees above zero, no wonder there could be snow here in winter. I saw that this is not good, I have to find a place to stay overnight, and I don't consider staying in a hotel, because the hotel in Jinding is too expensive, and the price of Leidongping is not on the same level, and the cheapest one is more than 600 ......
So I looked around and saw that the largest temple had a promenade to block the rain, so I ran there, shivering, took out the jacket from my backpack and put it on, but after all, it was just an autumn coat, and even if I put on my hat, I was still shivering from the cold.
Then I endured the cold in this place until half past one in the middle of the night, and suddenly found a person with a bright flashlight appearing in the empty open space. He took a strong flashlight and looked around, shining on it, and he discovered my existence, but he just paused the light here for a moment and continued to shine elsewhere, and he didn't care.
Then a few minutes later, he pointed his bright flashlight at me again, and I was also bored at the time, thinking, "You have a bright flashlight, right?" I have it too! So I took out my bright flashlight and shot at him from a distance, and he shot at me for a while, then stopped shooting with me, but walked back. I suddenly felt that if I followed him, I might be able to find a place to spend the night, so I followed him and saw him enter a hut under the tallest pagoda, and I also poked my head into the room, and through the light, it turned out to be a monk. He was eating, and I looked at it, yes...... Instant noodles?! HHHHHH……
So I talked to him for a few rounds. Because I heard that there was a chase shop where you could sleep in the temple before, 50 yuan per person, I asked him if he still had this thing, and then he told me that he would not accept guests for the time being due to the epidemic. Then I asked him if there was a place around where I could spend the night, and he pointed me to a public bathroom not far away, saying that there was air conditioning in it and I could stay overnight.
When I heard it, it was good, the toilet actually had the air conditioner on, so I went to the toilet to stay overnight! So after thanking the monk, I quickly found the toilet.
Well, there is indeed an air conditioner, and it is empty here in the middle of the night, and I control the air conditioner casually, so I adjusted the air conditioner temperature to the highest, that is, 35 degrees. But after blowing for a long time, it felt like it didn't warm up, so I closed the door outside the toilet again, closed the window, and the result was still no significant effect, the temperature within half a meter of the air conditioner can be maintained at about 13 or 14 degrees, if you leave this distance range, it is no different from the cold temperature outside. This toilet may not be used by many people recently, and it is lit with incense, so there is no peculiar smell, and it is no problem to eat in it, as for whether I ate or not, you guess?
I just stuck to this air conditioner and squatted all night, it was impossible to sit down or lie down, because the ground was too cold, so I didn't have to sleep, and under all kinds of boredom, I even sang loudly in this toilet for a long time to relieve my boredom, anyway, there was no one around. And my soaked shoes, because they couldn't be dried and the temperature was very low, my feet were cold all night, and the soles of my feet were extremely uncomfortable. However, it's not a big problem!
As for the charging problem of the mobile phone, as soon as I entered the toilet, I found that there was a socket on the wall next to the sink, and the plug of the hand dryer was plugged into it, as shown in the picture below:
>Later, after four o'clock in the morning, my phone ran out of power, so I went to unplug the hand dryer, plugged in the phone charger, and charged the phone for an hour. 
When the battery was full around five o'clock, I continued to play with my phone with the air conditioner.
Thefirst cable car from Leidongping to Jinding was at 5:30, so the three of them got up at 5 o'clock to pack up and prepare to take the cable car, and according to the sunrise schedule, the sunrise time of Mount Emei on this day (May 12, 2020) was 6:15, so I left the toilet I had contracted for the night for free at 6:00 and prepared to go to the observation deck to watch the sunrise.
As soon as I stepped out of the toilet door, I felt something was wrong, what a big fog! This is definitely the biggest fog I've ever seen in my life, and the visibility at this time is just ...... Two meters?! Post a photo to see:
So I opened my eyes and walked to the observation deck blindly with the memory of the night before, and I could feel that there were many people along the way, But I could only hear the tongue-in-cheek voice, and I couldn't even see a figure, it was really "only hearing his voice, not seeing him".
When I walked to the observation deck, the sky became a little brighter, the fog cleared a little, and the visibility changed from 2 meters to about 20 meters. However, with this fog, the sunrise is definitely invisible, and the observation deck at that time was like this:
People who were going to watch the sunrise were disappointed, although they all took pictures.
The three of them finally arrived at the Golden Peak at 6:30, and if there was a sunrise that day, they would have missed it, but fortunately, there was no sunrise that day. So after the four of us met, we walked around the big open space at the Golden Peak, it was still foggy, and I wanted to take a picture of the big Buddha statue that I hadn't taken clearly the night before, but I still couldn't take it, but this time it was because of the fog. At this time, there were still many people here, and there were people kneeling and bowing to the Buddha statues that could not be seen clearly in the fog, and as a non-believer, I still admired their piety.
Since the fog is thick, I can't see anything, at more than seven o'clock, I, Sister J, and Brother D (Sister J's boyfriend) unanimously decided to return, but Sister T is really a little stubborn, she must wait for the fog to dissipate and see this place clearly before leaving, and it is not easy to say when the fog will dissipate, and even she asked us to go first, and she saw it clearly before going back. Sister J persuaded her for a long time, but she couldn't persuade her (in fact, I was more supportive of Sister T's idea, so I just followed Sister J symbolically to persuade her).
After repeated confirmation, Sister T exchanged 300 yuan in cash with me for emergencies, and then she stayed at the top of the mountain, and I, Sister J, and Brother D took the ropeway cable car down to Leidongping, and the cable car was 55 yuan per person (my bamboo pole was actually lost before getting on the cable car, it seems that fate is over, it can only accompany me to climb Mount Emei, and I originally wanted to bring it back to Chengdu).
After arriving at the Leidongping cable car station, the three of us walked for a while, and when we arrived at the Leidongping Bus Station, tickets only started selling at half past eight, which was just eight o'clock at this time, so we waited for half an hour, and when the time reached half past eight, we immediately went in and bought a ticket directly to the Emei Mountain high-speed rail station, 50 yuan per person. Then I swiped my license and got into the car, I thought it was that kind of big car, but in fact it was similar to a van, which could seat about eight or nine people, and I left when it was full.
The car was quickly full, and the driver began to drive down the mountain, taking the farthest lane on the previous map. I was really sleepy because I hadn't slept all night, and I fell asleep quickly. The descent was still relatively fast, and after only an hour, the driver sent us down the mountain and arrived at the Emei Mountain high-speed rail station.
At this time, it was just ten o'clock, the three of us looked at the ticket, and there was a train that departed at 10:37, so we bought this ticket. After waiting for a while, they got on the bus back to Chengdu, and after arriving in Chengdu, they went back to their respective homes.
As for Sister T, who stayed in the Golden Peak, as she wished, the fog cleared at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, she successfully saw the scenery of the top of the mountain and took a photo, and then took the car down the mountain with satisfaction, and went to see the Leshan Giant Buddha again in the afternoon of the same day.
As for me, I was so sleepy and my feet were soaked in rain, so the first thing I did when I returned to my residence in Chengdu was to soak my feet in a basin of hot water, and then slept all afternoon.
Climbing Mount Emei is indeed a very tiring trip, and it took me two nights to relax completely, but the process of climbing the mountain is very refreshing, and the sense of conquest after reaching the top is also real.
travelogue of Mount Emei ends here, thank you for watching, this travelogue can also be used as a travel guide to Mount Emei for the reference of the old irons who want to go to Mount Emei.
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