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This is actually the Burana Tower, which is the bottom half of the giant minaret of the now-vanished giant mosque of the now-vanished late-ninth-century Karakhanid city of Balasagan. The Karakhanids have also now vanished.

You can climb it by a spectacularly claustrophobic staircase

Date: 2014-09-09 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huskyteer.livejournal.com
Hahaha! (And 'yikes' to those stairs.)

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