Step into a Chinese painting at Shanxi's Mt. Mian(2)

The Daoist Daluo Temple complex climbs 110 meters above the cliff-side road in stair-like fashion. The complex was almost entirely destroyed by the Japanese army in the early 1940s, and the present-day structures are recent reconstructions based on archeological and pictorial evidence. Daluo Gong, the largest and highest temple, pictured here, has six stories. Behind the third story of the temple are several tiny caves, to which only the most faithful pilgrims can climb. One of the caves has an entrance so small that a person can barely crawl through it, and can only be reached by climbing an eight-meter rope hanging from the vertical rock face.