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Ten Isolated, Gravity-Defying Monasteries You Can Visit Around the World
Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...
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China's caves are hiding plants that don’t exist anywhere else in the world
Chinese I-plane concept will fly faster than five times the speed of sound Over five years, researchers visited more than 60 caves in the southern Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan regions of China.
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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...
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The wonders of China's Shanxi Province and its magnificent ancient structures
I climbed up the Northern Hengshan Mountain to visit the 1,400-year-old Hanging Temple ... the guide mentioned that there are about 200 million people across China whose ancestry could be traced ...