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Gripping: This gravity-defying hanging monastery clings to the side of Mt Huashan in China and is only accessible via steep and dangerous paths
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Complete isolation: According to legend, the Tiger's Nest takes its name from the 'second Buddha', Precious Guru Padmasambhava, who travelled to the site on a tiger5.39.217.763 `4 V) x' R R) `! Y! l
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Between a rock and a hard place: The Holy Trinity is part of the Meteora - which translates as 'suspended in the air' - complex of monasteries in Greece, one of the largest collections of such buildings in the country
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Vertigo-inducing: The Sumela monastery in Turkey was created 386AD apparently after two priests discovered a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain5.39.217.76' y3 g, M8 v9 N3 C
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/ L2 x: O7 C9 L$ r+ ^tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDon't look down! The monasteries of Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas (left) and Agia Roussanou (right) in Greece, which form part of the Meteora complex of precariously placed buildings
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9 l0 N* U* \- @2 d# a Head for heights: French mountain climber Catherine Destivelle during her ascension of the Rocher Saint Esprit, in the Meteora, with the Monastery of Roussanou located on a parallel summit (right)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( c$ s1 T* a" Z( P
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Path to enlightenment: A stunning scene showing the Monastery of Roussanou in what must one of the most serene places in the worldTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。1 z" k: C' n. G4 K9 ?
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7 P9 v. d4 E' g4 G% Jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbBalancing act: The monastery of Roussanou at the base of a stone tower in Meteora, Greece in a picture taken in 19855.39.217.76, n7 r1 J$ O3 z& B) X
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Nerve-wracking: A man is hoisted 250ft in a net, the only way to access the Monastery of St Barlaam (right), which also forms part of the Meteora complex in Greece公仔箱論壇& z% F k: D$ ] r {+ U
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. ~, J7 z" a- f- b公仔箱論壇Rich heritage: The ruins of the Sigiriya, or Lion's Rock, in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, which was used as a monastery from around the 5th Century BC
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$ k N, K8 I/ N公仔箱論壇Idyllic: The rock, pictured here at dawn, upon which the temple and monastery were built is a 'magma plug'TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。$ ^2 X, i0 E% z- S5 v
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Easy does it: A visitor navigates the stone stairs leading up to the temple and fortress of Sigiriya, but this path is by no means the most perilous compared to those approaching other monasteries
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, {# W4 v" L( P( |; m; u) y% ` itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbBeautiful: Sigiriya is framed by symmetrical water gardens which extend to the foot of the rock. It is one of the eight World Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka
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Panoramic: The monastery of St Stephen, part of the Meteora complex in Greece, was built in the middle of 16th and decorated in or around 1545
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: ]+ b) \; c) ftvb now,tvbnow,bttvbA cut above: Rather than clinging to it, this temple was carved into the rock in the region of Cappadocia in Turkey. Frescoes can be seen around the entrance公仔箱論壇/ h r) Z3 V! t; g6 v' r6 A/ P d
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Up on high: The Holy Holy Monastery of Saint Nicholas Anapausas in Meteora, Greece, which was built in the 16th Century and decorated by the Cretan painter Theophanis Strelitzas in 1527 |
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