Magical Mount Emei...

For 2 days, we hiked on Emeishan, climbing up 3000 metres and staying the night at Elephant Bathing Pool Monastery along the way. It was a wonderful, peaceful and tough climb, with a total of 35 kilometres and thousands upon thousands of stone steps (and only one sketchy temporary wooden path over a steep drop-off - a bit nerve-wracking in retrospect). The Golden Summit, with its beautiful statues and golden temple, and snowy peaks in the distance, was stunning.