This World Heritage Site Is Closed To Visitors, But Now You Can Take A Virtual Reality Tour

Adele Peters, Fast Company
Mon, 03/02/2015 - 8:17am

More and more closed-off places—like the fragile Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in the Gobi Desert—will become accessible as the technology improves.Carved into cliffs in the Gobi Desert, 700 ancient grottos called the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas hold paintings and sculptures that date as far back as the second century.

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