I saw this picture in one of those collections online like “10 amazing places you won’t believe” or something like that.
It was a giant stone archway. There were stairs carved into the rock leading up to it and going up into the center of it. The archway seemed carved, it was too round to be natural. I think the stone was like dark colored, gray or blue-ish. Beyond the archway I don’t really remember what it was. It could have been that the camera took the picture at a slight incline, so you can’t see the ground behind it, or maybe it was a large body of water, I don’t remember.
I’ve been typing into Google all manners of different keywords but I can’t find it. I remembered back when I saw it a few months ago I tried tineye.com but still couldn’t really find out anything about it. I don’t think it was on wiki either, but that may be just due to me not knowing the name of the place
Anyways, the picture was spectacular. I wanted a giant version of it to use as a desktop, or at least know where it is and find out what the deal is with that thing.
Sorry, its none of those. The archy was distinctively more man-made. I don’t know whether or not it was, but it was very oval and not jagged or rocky in any sense. It was also many scales larger than the last link. It looked like cars could fit through it
Ok, I’ve drawn a picture of what the photo is supposed to look like
The arch is very big, bigger than that, and the picture seems to have been taken further away. The background is blue or something, hence the words. I guess I should have typed it. In the picture I remember I think there was a guy on the stairs. I’m not sure, but I got the impression that the place was Asian in origin. There may or may not be some buildings in the scribbles on the foreground.
You’re awesome! It is the Tiananmen Arch! Once again the Dope comes through!
The picture I saw was probably this one. Close enough to the drawing I guess, I kind of missed the scale of it though. Wow, that place is just stunning, hard to believe something like that exists. Anyone been there? Even sven? China Guy? Are the stairs are brutal as it looks? Even the surrounding area seems like something out of a historical Chinese fiction, and the winding road looks like something from a manga. I soooooooo wanna go there now…!
Cool. Looks like a supersized version of the Aiguille Percée in the French Alps. (I’ve got a cool photo of me standing in the base of that one in ski gear.)
If I ever go there, you’ll be the first person I invite, how’s that?
The thing that strikes me most is how perfectly oval the thing is, it makes me wonder if the Chinese government did some remodeling, kinda like how apparently vagina cosmetic surgery is a real thing now. There’s a [-Heaven-Gate-Mountain&highlight=Heaven’s%20Gate"]link](http://www.photokaki.com/forum/showthread.php?16115-[China|Hunan) in that website to a series of pictures showing you just what exactly you have to expect when you try to get there. A 7.5km tram ride along with a snaking mountain road car ride, to the foot of the hole where you go up 2 levels of steepness and 999 steps.
What I’m wondering now is, where does that hole lead to? Is the other side just a steep drop? I’m trying to find pictures of the other side of the hole but no luck so far.
Looking at the Google Maps for it (in the link) it didn’t seem to be a steep drop. There are other obvious steep drops within a couple thousand feet of it but not directly on the “green arrow”. Pity though that Google’s Terrain option doesn’t work there so I can’t be sure (cause for all I know it might just be a really steep yet completely forested cliff :))
You’re right, I totally want to go there now, too.
