{"id":2954,"date":"2014-06-08T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setcourseforchina.wordpress.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2014-06-08T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T02:42:18","slug":"day-ten-old-ruins-and-the-kizil-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Day ten- Old Ruins and the Kizil Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1403.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2956\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1403.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are 1st century ruins located in the middle of nowhere, Kuqa.\u00a0 It was an amazing site to see pulling off a lonely highway and exploring the ruins.\u00a0 However, the day we visited was windy.\u00a0 Extremely windy.\u00a0 I think like &#8216;a massive sandstorm is coming right now&#8217; windy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1409.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2960\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1409.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1415.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2962\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1415.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Justine and I were freezing but we huddled together to stay warm!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1411.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2964\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1411.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all ran into the bus to escape the wind and anxiously awaited our arrival at Kizil Caves.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take any pictures inside of the caves but here is what they look like from the outside.\u00a0 Many Buddhist monks would paint the cave walls and build sculptures depicting Buddha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2967\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1431.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/2014\/06\/img_1433.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2970\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_1433.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are 1st century ruins located in the middle of nowhere, Kuqa.\u00a0 It was an amazing site to see pulling off a lonely highway and exploring the ruins.\u00a0 However, the day we visited was windy.\u00a0 Extremely windy.\u00a0 I think like &#8216;a massive sandstorm is coming right now&#8217; windy! My friend Justine and I were freezing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evacohnchina.summitbiztech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}