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Monastery Beneath Rocky Cliff Grottoes

A mud-brick monastery with a multi-story timber facade sits at the base of a rocky cliff featuring numerous grottoes, surrounded by yellowing poplar trees under soft morning light.

A desert monastery below the Mogao cliffs at first light, mud-brick walls and a tall timber facade warming to ochre, grottoes dark in the rock face, poplar leaves yellow, cold shadow on the gravel, 50mm See more

#Deserts of the west

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