Rising river in China reaches feet of giant Buddha statue
August 19, 2020 at 10:56 a.m.
The 233-foot-high sitting Buddha was carved out of a hillside on Mount Emei around 1,200 years ago, and forms part of a UNESCO world heritage site in China’s Sichuan province. It usually sits comfortably above the waters of the Yangtze, and tourists gather at its base.
