Wudang Mountain Draws Pilgrims and Selfie Sticks, Because the Sacred Has a View
China’s Wudang Mountains draw Taoist pilgrims, martial-arts devotees and tourists to a landscape where worship and sightseeing share the same steep path.
Famous people doing famous-people things, with the volume turned down and the eyebrow raised.
China’s Wudang Mountains draw Taoist pilgrims, martial-arts devotees and tourists to a landscape where worship and sightseeing share the same steep path.
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