May Day Pilgrimage to Mount Putuo

Day1 Arrive at the island, and the innkeepers generally come to pick you up at the dock. The first stop is 1 Buddha Top Mountain Huiji Temple, where you need to take a cable car up the mountain. The scenery is quite nice (picture 18). After paying respects to the Buddha, you can enjoy a cup of Xide coffee. Next stop is 2 Fayu Temple (picture 4). After visiting Fayu Temple, you can go to the nearby 3 Shuangquan Zen Monastery for a photo shoot. Inside, there is a Buddha Heart Wall that is particularly photogenic (picture 3). Have dinner at 4 Changsheng Vegetarian Restaurant (picture 15), buffet for one person at 45, with a rich variety of dishes. After dinner, stroll back to the inn and buy some lucky bag pendants (the next day you can go to Puji Temple incense burner for blessings). Day2 Leave around 6 am, walk from the inn to 1 Puji Temple. There are breakfast shops along the way, where I had vegetarian noodles. Puji Temple is the most popular, and it's better to go earlier when there are fewer people. On the walls to the left and right of the entrance of Puji Temple (picture 8) are respectively: Namo Amitabha Buddha and Namo Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva, where you can take photos and check in. At Mountain Academy (picture 5), I wrote postcards. To 2 Fanyin Cave (picture 6), take the bus to Fanyin Cave station, and a ten-minute walk will get you there. It's beautiful and you can see the sea. 3 Shancai Cave, prepare two 100 yuan notes, rub them three times on the stone stele, and then keep them in your wallet without spending them. Spend them the next year when you come back to Mount Putuo. 4 Finally, go to Guanyin, light incense in front of the Nanhai Guanyin statue and walk clockwise around the statue to make three wishes. You can also visit Guanyin Temple and the Bamboo Forest, which are all within walking distance of each other. Finally, head back to the dock to end the trip (if you're in a hurry and can't return to the inn to get your luggage, the innkeeper can deliver it to the dock).