Are you looking for an adventure? Do you like not knowing where you are going, if you're going to the right place or how you're going to get back? Does the prospect of trying to get answers without ...

When you're trying to connect with your god, it helps to find some peace and quiet, if you can. But that was, indeed, no such problem for the architects of these impossibly built monasteries.

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

A small open-pit coal mine was found behind the Hanging Monastery, a 1,500-year-old temple in Shanxi province, triggering Web users to criticize local government's negligence over the amazing ancient ...

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The World’s Only Hanging Monastery i.e. Hanging Temple or Hanging Monastery or Xuankong Temple is the best example of Ancient Chinese Architecture. It is situated near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, ...

With its rustic charm, Dhankar village and its attractions are perfect for those looking for wholesome slow-travel.

For some travellers the phrase 'seen one temple you've seen them all' rings true, but The Xuan Kong Si Hanging Temple in China would impress even the most cynical among them. Also known as the ...

Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora, a collection of massive stone pillars and rounded boulders in northwestern Greece, are still active more than 700 years after the ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...