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Summer Postcards 2011

By Jessica C. Salley
What appears to be merely a shack is, in fact, the former gateway into the monastery. Until recently, the only way guests entered the complex was by scaling 300 meters up the cliffs or by being hauled up in a net. According to popular anecdote, when asked how often the nets were replaced, a monk quipped, "As often as the Good Lord lets them break."
What appears to be merely a shack is, in fact, the former gateway into the monastery. Until recently, the only way guests entered the complex was by scaling 300 meters up the cliffs or by being hauled up in a net. According to popular anecdote, when asked how often the nets were replaced, a monk quipped, "As often as the Good Lord lets them break."

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