Floating

The Hanging Temple (悬空寺 or Xuánkōng Sì, literally meaning “floating-in-empty temple”) near Datong is magnificent.  I’m certain it was one of the inspirations for the Western Air Temple in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Just steps upriver from the temple is a dam and a cavernous bypass channel which debouches into a lake.
All frozen, thank Eru, lest the Watcher in the Water were to try to fuck with me and my mellon.  (Pardon my Sindarin.)

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