{"id":5396,"date":"2017-12-01T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:45:34","slug":"the-temple-under-tianlong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"The temple under Tianlong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-5397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171201-20171020-China-00403.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The temple under Tianlong. Xiann\u00fcshan, Wulong county, China.<\/p>\n<p>The temple lies in a valley above which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Natural_Bridges\"> 3 natural bridges<\/a> arch more than 100 meters above. An other place I&#8217;ve discovered with impressive photographies on Internet, as I couldn&#8217;t find it using any of the guides I had. To get there turned out to be a bit of challenge, from the remote Chongqing bus station to see the temple, it took me around 4 to 5 hours using 3 different buses. The place is incredible. Imagine a hole with abrupt walls, and a stair winding down to a flat path under a massive stone arch. After a turn, the temple appears. Of course, I wasn&#8217;t alone, lots of tourists were shouting and testing the echo, so it wasn&#8217;t precisely a soothing experience. The place has been used as a movie stage for Chinese movies, as well as one of the dreaded transformers movies, and you&#8217;re regularly reminded of it, like with the big &#8220;Optimus Prime riding a dinobot&#8221; statue right behind the turn. Anyway, in spite of the crowd and the disputable decorative items, the place was well worth the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,381,10],"tags":[470,344,66,559],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-mountain","category-wide-angle","tag-china","tag-nature","tag-temple","tag-wulong","post_format-post-format-image"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierre.bodilis.fr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}