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Grottoes and Hanging Temple

16/5/2010

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Yun Gang Grottoes
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Hanging Temple
Another very exciting day out this time to visit some not so well known things, once again our taxi came to pick us up at 10:00am and we were off straight away. First stop the Grottos - they are caves and at this particular place are filled with big Buddha sculptures and there are 39 caves with carvings, sculptures and temples. They were built over 1500 years ago. Each cave has about four big sculptures and lots of little ones surrounding them. When we went there it was freezing cold and pouring down rain so we all had coats on and had borrowed umbrellas from our driver. There was also a big track leading up to them which was dirt so it was just a big muddy slosh and all our new shoes got dirty. There was also puddles everywhere and I fell in one of them on the way back to the car. All in all though they were truly amazing things. When we were back in the car we started driving to the suspended (anging) temple it - was built 1400 years ago and somehow it still stands. It was a little scary to climb up as it was only held in place by some shabby old bits of wood balancing on a clifface but even so we climbed up it until we reached the top and then we climbed around inside it. The rain had stopped by know but it was still very cold outside and was not the perfect day to be  sightseeing at all but we all enjoyed it a lot.
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Gobi Camels behind us at the Yun Gang Grottoes
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Hanging out at the Hanging Temple
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Talitha
17/5/2010 06:50:41 pm

sounds exciting!!!!

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holl
21/5/2010 05:07:24 pm

Hi Moll

LOVE CHOPSTICKS! LOVE LAOS DOLL!!
LOVE YOU!!!

Mum, Dad, Lucas and I will be having our Australian Citizenship ceremony next year on Australia Day.

I have got two Eistedfods coming up!! One is for flute at Norwa and the other one is dancing at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre so I have been so caught up in rehearseals lately!!!

Hope all is well for you over there. It sounds like your having fun! I am missing you so much!

Bye for now

Holl
xx

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Simone
26/5/2010 03:49:31 pm

Hey Molly Mack and Julia I liked the extraordinary story you wrote in the TAKE 5 magazien.Mum went to Sydney to see my nanny but she wasn't alowed to go and see her before 10am so mum went down twon and went to the newsagency to get a magazien and she didn't know but she got that one you wrote the story in. Thank you for all my gifts they are AWESOME. Nice photoes. SIMONExx

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