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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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. A% K4 \- C1 L" g! ^0 ?- Z5.39.217.76Closer to their god: The Taktshang Tiger's Nest monastery clings to a cliff 2,300ft above the Paro Valley floor in Bhutan at such a height it looks down on the clouds
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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 tiger
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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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6 A2 @- p S5 ]+ H$ NVertigo-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 mountaintvb now,tvbnow,bttvb: o4 N! O9 A4 ?, V# m) M5 `
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" I1 w4 Z3 B7 _4 q3 s. o# eDon'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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 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)
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/ x( c: a0 p, h9 O& b! Z5 `% k5.39.217.76Path to enlightenment: A stunning scene showing the Monastery of Roussanou in what must one of the most serene places in the world公仔箱論壇1 v2 _0 Q" u2 a, H! L; L1 p
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; m+ f! s0 @5 O. zBalancing act: The monastery of Roussanou at the base of a stone tower in Meteora, Greece in a picture taken in 19853 @ k1 g& w2 \- T, L3 Y
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- l! W& ?5 ?* |2 h! A& m$ U1 q/ \6 dNerve-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
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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 BCTVBNOW 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。$ { ?+ C4 C' K" z$ x# J7 G
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/ s$ V/ ~) w7 ^& b- l& P+ ~tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIdyllic: The rock, pictured here at dawn, upon which the temple and monastery were built is a 'magma plug'
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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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6 d2 g, e$ I8 G" y v. e* V, T; d5.39.217.76Beautiful: 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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8 G0 R* z/ r& N6 B1 ] D" @tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbPanoramic: 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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A 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 entranceTVBNOW 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 z& |" A- I2 u9 D' _
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. G) z4 E, ?( g0 }$ V+ |: yUp 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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