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You must get up early to visit Lingyin Temple!!! To avoid the crowds on Sunday

I got up at 5:30 am, freshened up a bit, and left at 6:00 am to take a taxi to the Lingyin Temple ticket office. I arrived around 6:20 (🚗 the hotel is near in77), the journey was smooth and the scenery along the way was super beautiful😍~ I entered at the Feilai Peak checkpoint at 6:30 am (check tickets at the place in picture 1, don't line up in the wrong queue, we waited for a long time at the Feilai Peak ticket office🤣, and wasted 10 minutes for nothing, scanning the code to buy a ticket🎫 for 45 yuan). There weren't many people in line, and I got in within a minute or two. Once inside, you can first admire the stone carvings🧐. Following the crowd, I reached Lingyin Temple, scanned the code to buy a ticket for 30 yuan, waited in line for about ten minutes, and the temple opened at 7:00 am with not many people, so I entered quickly. After finishing the tour at 8:00 am, I went back to the Shipofang Garden on the right side of the Heavenly King Hall to eat vegetarian noodles, which tasted pretty good (Shipofang Garden opens at 8:00 am and starts taking orders at 8:30 am)👍. After eating the noodles, it was not yet 9:00 am, and the place was already getting crowded😱. Just a short walk from Lingyin Temple, I arrived at Yongfu Temple. Yongfu Temple has the most bracelet styles among these temples, and the prices are relatively cheaper, plus you can try them on😄. Walking and browsing around Yongfu Temple, the scenery was very beautiful🤩, but because I was having too much fun, I decided to continue climbing up (it turns out that it's too tiring to climb to the God of Wealth Temple when the weather is hot😅). It was almost 12:00 pm by the time I got to the God of Wealth Temple, and then I took the cable car down (there were quite a few people waiting for the cable car, but it was pretty fast, about half an hour🚠). So, you can take the cable car to the God of Wealth Temple after visiting Lingyin Temple, and then walk down to visit Taoguang Temple and Yongfu Temple. After coming down from the cable car, I returned to the vicinity of Lingyin Temple and took the sightseeing bus (10 yuan) directly to Faxi Temple. I bought mooncakes at Faxi Temple, and they tasted quite good😋. After leaving Faxi Temple, I went to the roadside and took bus 1314 directly to the West Lake Su Causeway stop, then rode a bicycle along the West Lake, which felt amazing👏! (The road was very congested, taxis were expensive, and it was too hard to walk, so it was better to take the bus🚌). There are really a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains🦟, I suggest wearing long sleeves and pants. I wore long pants and was basically not bitten, but I saw many girls wearing shorts and tank tops with many bites on their bodies😭. You need to buy separate tickets for the God of Wealth Temple and Faxi Temple, 8 yuan for the God of Wealth Temple and 10 yuan for Faxi Temple. Overall, the experience of getting up early was really great😁!
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Posted: Mar 17, 2024
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