Mogao Caves

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:50:59 +0200

One of the major tourist attractions on the silk road are the Mogao caves - hundreds of rock grottoes carved by hand and decorated with artful paintings more than 2000 years ago. While from the inside the caves are impressive, from the outside the site lacks some character, as in order to protect them, the caves have been sealed with walls of ugly concrete...