乐山

LeshanTravel Budget Guide

Tier 2·IATA:

When to visit

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
  • extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
  • highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
  • extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
  • highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
  • highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
  • extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥8starting fare

Attractions

Mount Emei峨眉山5AHeritage Site$23.65 (CN¥160)
Leshan Giant Buddha乐山大佛5AHeritage Site$11.82 (CN¥80)
Oriental Buddha Capital东方佛都4A$11.53 (CN¥78)
Dadu River Jinkou Grand Canyon大渡河金口大峡谷景区4A$0.00 (CN¥0)
Heizhugou (Black Bamboo Valley)黑竹沟4A$7.09 (CN¥48)
Dongfeng Weir - Thousand Buddha Cliff东风堰-千佛岩4A$7.39 (CN¥50)
Leshan Giant Buddha Daytime Cruise乐山白日游船—$10.35 (CN¥70)
Golden Peak Cable Car金顶索道—$8.13 (CN¥55)
Qingyin Pavilion清音阁—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Golden Peak (Wudangshan)金顶—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Only Emei Mountain Drama Show只有峨眉山·戏剧幻城—$38.13 (CN¥258)
Jiayang Steam Train嘉阳小火车—$11.23 (CN¥76)
Giant Sleeping Buddha巨型睡佛—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Wannian Temple (Emei)万年寺—$1.48 (CN¥10)
Suji Ancient Town苏稽古镇—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Lingxiu Hot Springs灵秀温泉—$20.40 (CN¥138)
Leidongping (Mount Emei)雷洞坪—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Baoguo Temple报国寺—$1.18 (CN¥8)
Hongzhushan Forest Hot Springs红珠山森林温泉—$20.40 (CN¥138)

Hotels

Budget

$17.00 (CN¥115)
/night

Standard

$24.83 (CN¥168)
/night

Comfort

$44.64 (CN¥302)
/night

Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.

Food

Budget meal

$3.70 (CN¥25)
/meal

Mid-range

$9.75 (CN¥66)
/meal

High-end

$36.95 (CN¥250)
/meal
Styles:Fast food · Street snacks · Sichuan · Braised snacks

Culture & Heritage

Famous Snacks (5)

Qiaojiao Beef (Cross-Legged Beef Soup)Famous Snacks
A century-old herbal beef soup from Leshan's Suji town, simmering beef bones and offal with more than twenty medicinal herbs, named for the cross-legged pose of early diners; a provincial-level ICH item.
Bobo Chicken (Cold Skewered Poultry in Spiced Oil)Famous Snacks
Leshan's most recognisable cold skewer dish: boneless chicken and other morsels on bamboo sticks steeped in a bowl of green-peppercorn or chilli oil, numbing, spicy and deeply savoury.
Sweet-Skinned DuckFamous Snacks
Leshan's signature braised duck, its skin glazed with malt sugar to a glossy reddish-brown, crisp and lightly sweet outside with tender flesh, the calling-card of Jiazhou flavour.
Leshan Tofu PuddingFamous Snacks
A signature Leshan breakfast of silken tofu pudding paired with glass noodles, crisp fried pork and steamed pork in starch, dressed in chilli-oil broth, split into red-oil and clear-broth schools.
Dan Hong Gao (Egg-Baked Cake)Famous Snacks
A classic made-to-order Leshan street treat: a small, soft egg-scented pancake baked over a low flame in a copper pan, folded around sweet or savoury fillings and loved by all ages.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (4)

Emei Martial ArtsNational ICH · Batch 第二批国家级非遗
One of the three great schools of Chinese martial arts, born on Mount Emei and fusing Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian thought across more than eighty lineages; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.
Bamboo-Paper Making Technique (Jiajiang Bamboo Paper)National ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非遗
The thousand-year handcraft of calligraphy paper from Jiajiang, made from tender bamboo through seventy-two steps, the emblem of China's land of painting-and-calligraphy paper; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Woodblock New-Year Prints (Jiajiang New-Year Prints)National ICH · Batch 第二批国家级非遗
One of Sichuan's three great New-Year print traditions alongside Mianzhu and Liangping, grounded in local hand paper and woodblock printing, with a deep, classical style; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.
Qiaojiao Beef Hotpot Making TechniqueProvincial ICH
The century-old herbal beef-soup craft of Suji town, simmering beef bones and offal with more than twenty medicinal herbs; a Sichuan provincial-level ICH item from 2023.
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