Saturday 25 May 2013

A walk in the park

Yuntai Mountain International Culture and Martial arts School got its name from the Yuntai Mountain which can be seen from my window.




It's a natural park of about 100 sq km and it's (luckily) protected by UNESCO. We needed two days to see most part of it and we also ended up in a restoration area that in theory wasn't open to the public.
When they found us, they asked us to leave and kindly called a bus just to pick us up.






The climbing to the temples is amazing...the arriving a bit less. All the temples are new, most of them have been built since 2000 following the schemas of the originals, destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. But almost all of them are touristic only and - with only few exceptions - lack that mystical atmosphere of real cult places.
The natural features instead are simply marvelous! Lakes, rivers, falls, forests and canyons...just gorgeous. :)
Enjoy the pictures and may the Force be with you.
















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