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Gao Temple, Zhongwei 中卫高庙Zhōngwèi Gāo Miào
National heritage site · Zhongwei, Ningxia
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Zhongwei
- Region
- Ningxia
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Gao Temple, Zhongwei
A temple complex in central Zhongwei that brings Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian halls together on terraces rising from the gate to a three-storey main tower 29 m high. Rebuilt several times after earthquakes and a fire in 1942, it reopened as a Buddhist site in 1982; the main tower has halls for the Jade Emperor, Confucius and other figures, and a tunnel linking two ponds is called the 'cave of hell and reincarnation'.
How to get to Gao Temple, Zhongwei
In central Zhongwei (Shapotou District), about 20 km east of the Shapotou scenic area.
Nearby
- Shapotou 沙坡头 20 km
Where the dunes of the Tengger Desert tumble down to the Yellow River
Also within 20 km: Tengger Desert Wetland – Jinsha Island 腾格里沙漠湿地·金沙岛 (under 10 km).
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