{"id":46667,"date":"2024-07-21T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=46667"},"modified":"2024-07-19T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:11:41","slug":"pilgrimage-through-the-stone-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/pilgrimage-through-the-stone-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage through the stone desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kazakh pilgrims and tourists of all ages endure a lot of hardship to climb down from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ustyurt_Plateau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ustyurt plateau<\/a> along narrow paths and countless steps to the underground mosque of the Sufi Beket-Ata. In the chalk and limestone desert of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mangystau_Region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mangystau region<\/a> with its impressive rock formations, the sun shines in April against an almost cloudless sky and daytime temperatures often reach over 30 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shymkent.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Balzhan &amp; Axel Monse<\/a><\/strong> (Germany)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakh pilgrims and tourists of all ages endure a lot of hardship to climb down from the Ustyurt plateau along narrow paths and countless steps to the underground mosque of the Sufi Beket-Ata. In the chalk and limestone desert of the Mangystau region with its impressive rock formations, the sun shines in April against an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":46669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4087,470,4394,4025,4117,4002,4768,4230],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-46667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-central-asia","tag-kazakhstan","tag-mangystau","tag-mausoleum","tag-mosque","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-pilgrimage","tag-ustyurt-plateau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46670,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46667\/revisions\/46670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}