Please Enlighten Me

My first thought upon seeing this picture was, "How?!? How was this even built?" If you look closely there appears to be a winding staircase leading down from the obviously massive carvings that disappears into the jungle below, giving the photo a sense of scale. Mind boggling.

It was labeled buddha at nguyen cha taktsang monastery bhutan, which led me on an internet search to get more information. All I came up with were a dozen or so pinterest "places I want to go" sites showing the exact same photo and a couple other sites about the monastery itself that make no mention of the carvings or provide any other photos of them.

You would think something of this immensity (at least 30 stories from the look of it) would have at least one other photo online, right?

At this point, I'm going to write this off as Photoshop unless someone can provide me with another explanation.

Followup: Yup, it's fake (thanks to reader Eric for the link).

4 Replies to “Please Enlighten Me”

  1. Definitely Photoshop. It is actually from the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, Zhangjiajie, China.

  2. I found the same – Tianzi Mountain. Disappointing. So wish it did exist

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