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| You know you've been in China a while when you know the word "pagoda" in Chinese, "ta (second tone)" After a while...they lose there wow factor, but this one, here in Yingxian is the oldest wooden pagoda in China! |
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| It's octagonal with nine storeys inside (can't climb...bummer) but it only looks like six on the outside. |
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| Big buddha, big buddha, big buddha!! |
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| And the Chinese word for temple is "si (fourth tone)"! We, myself included were thinking, "another temple, yawn" until we turned the corner and saw what is obviously called "the Hanging temple" |
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| It's held up on wooden stilts that are strategically places into the rock ledge. |
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| The entrance |
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| A typical staircase. The temple has many niches that have buddhas and statues of other religions. This is a house of worship for many faiths. |
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| The temple was built on the cliff to prevent it from being flooded by this box canyon upstream. Each time it was washed away, it was subsequently built higher on the wall. These days, it's a non issue. The river has been dammed. |
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