Mountain city in China

[NewSarah]

SHANXI, CHINA
CITY BUILT IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SHAN

This is amazing
and we have to wonder how,
why and when did they do this.
From where & how do they get water...power....sewer.....?
How did they build all this??
And why..way.."up there"!!

My best guess is that this is a Buddhist Monestary – They are noted for building in the most extreme, inacessible, but scenicly speaking, some of the most beautiful places there is.
Bobby G. (PS. I do not now which Bobby was that one – our GG Bobby, or somebody’s else, but he did a very good job, no doubt. Sarah)

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[NewSarah]

Hengshan Mountain is known as the North Mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains in China. The Hanging Temple was built on the Jinlong Valley at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, which is 80 kilometers away from Datong City. According to the History of Hengshan Mountain, the Hanging Temple was first built at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty (about the sixth century). It was said to be built by a monk named Liao Ran in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It has a history of more than 1,400 years. After many times of repairs, the Hanging Temple had a large scale, and became a rare high altitude building in China, known as a high building on cliff.

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[Gabber]

very cool pics and I would bet that it is a Monestary.

Questions: Do they have cable and can they pick up the games on Sunday?

kidding

Bad place to take a midnight walk when drunk.

[Ashtoreth]

Bad place to take a midnight walk when drunk.

that's why they built it not in Canuckistan nor in Russia :smoke:

[slkas]

It's an adventure. Best undertaken with at least two bottles of nitrostat and either a portable oxygen tank or an oxygen concentration machine. I wonder how food gets there. How is the water lifted. Is this place Buddhist or is it Taoist.

[huney]

It's an adventure. Best undertaken with at least two bottles of nitrostat and either a portable oxygen tank or an oxygen concentration machine. I wonder how food gets there. How is the water lifted. Is this place Buddhist or is it Taoist.
Water need not be lifted. As you can see it is falling freely - as is, I suppose, the sewage :)

[slkas]

But of course, the universal law is that feces flows downhill.