Marble Mountain
by mikka
A few photos from one of the Marble Mountains (again, from a few weeks ago), which are a series of towering limestone outcrops covered in trees, vines, 10th century shrines and precariously vast caves.
Left to right: Dad and his favorite proverb; a temple roof; Maggie and Dad take on the 300+ stairs up the mountain.
Shiva in Vietnam?
Caves! Left to right, a goddess carved into the wall of a cave; the entrance to a the cave that had the hole that led to the top of the mountain (see below).
The entrance and inside of one of the larger caves, which housed several shrines and a giant Buddha carved high up on the wall.
See that hole in the cave ceiling illuminating the slippery rockface? I climbed through that on to the top of the mountain NO BIG DEAL.
