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There are historic sites aplenty to be seen in Lu Shan and, unlike many of China’s mountainous holiday destinations, they do not all comprise seemingly identical Buddhist temples with a huge bucket of incense burning outside. They do, however, have typically grandiose names such as Dragon Head Precipice, Lion Mouth Rock, and the Grand [and Small] Heavenly Lake, all within easy walking distance of each other.

Immortal Cave

And of course, if you love nothing better than visiting Buddhist temples with a huge bucket of incense burning outside, fear not for Lu Shan caters for you too. The Immortal Cave offers an interesting twist on this, being set in a small cave where the leader of the Eight Immortals of Chinese mythology is said to have hung out, probably being all mystical and stuff.

Nuona Pagoda

Nowhere of interest is complete without a pagoda or seventeen, but at least this one is of a quite different style from the usual square, tiered variety—a sign said it was based on “Indian style” but it is apparently in honour of the tulku [current incarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist lama] of the now-defunct region of Tibet known as Xikang.

Lu Shan cinema

One of the less-historic claims-to-fame of the area is the cinema that has shown the same one film [the tautologically-translated “Romance on Lu Shan Mountain”] every day since it premiered here in 1980, making it the Guinness World Record holder for “Longest First-Run of a Film in One Cinema”. We hung around outside for a while just on the off-chance that one of the staff would come tearing out of the building screaming, “I can’t take it anymore! Every … day, the same … film, over … and over! Raaarrrggghghhhghggghhhhhhhgggurgle…” but we must have missed them.

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martyn | 2009 / 02 / 10 – 16:31

tasty cloud action in nuoana pagoda shot dude! nice comp too :)

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David | 2009 / 02 / 10 – 16:59

Re #1: Thanks, it took a while to whittle it down to that one from the dozens that I took of the pagoda that day. :)

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