This is the worlds biggest prayer wheel and must be 10 metres tall, you are supposed to turn it three times,, it was really heavy but we did OK. Seems like a weird way to talk to God, I would think it makes us sound like a broken record.
ON TOUR September 27th 2009 We booked in with a tour company out of Lijiang to see a whole bunch of canyons, mountains, temples and more. I was a little apprehensive over whether we would get value, see cool things and be on some Contiki thing. BUt it was excellent.
We all pilled into a twenty seater bus and headed off into the hills. Going was slow as we were on secondary road with lots of traffic going both ways on bot ... read more
Asia » China » Yunnan » Yangtze River For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more