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Flaming Mountain (Huoyan
Shan 火焰山)
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
______________________The Flaming Mountain
looks like they are on fire in the midday sun.
They are 100km long and 10km wide.
Huoyan Shan were made famous in the Chinese classic literature
"Journey to the West", where the
monk, Xuan Zang and his followers who travelled to India to bring
Buddhist scriptures back to China
had to cross over this formidable barrier. In the afternoon,
the temperature at the foot of the hill was 40C.
In the peak
of summer, it can reach as high as 60C. |
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