{"id":48462,"date":"2026-04-30T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48462"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:23:18","slug":"the-open-air-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-open-air-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"The open-air temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A little further along the road, you will come across the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamgaly-Tas_Petroglyphs_(Ili_Kapshagai)\">Tamgaly-Tas petroglyphs<\/a><\/strong>. Situated on the banks of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ili_River\">Ili River<\/a><\/strong>, on the edge of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altyn-Emel_National_Park\">Altyn-Emel National Park<\/a><\/strong>, 120 km north of Almaty, these petroglyphs were carved by Tibetan monks in the 17th century, at a time when this region of Kazakhstan was ruled by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dzungar_people\">Dzungars<\/a><\/strong>. Tamgaly-Tas is the name given to the site by the Kazakhs following the expulsion of the Dzungar Khanate from Kazakh lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Ana Mu\u00f1oz Mac\u00edas<\/strong> <\/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>A little further along the road, you will come across the Tamgaly-Tas petroglyphs. Situated on the banks of the Ili River, on the edge of Altyn-Emel National Park, 120 km north of Almaty, these petroglyphs were carved by Tibetan monks in the 17th century, at a time when this region of Kazakhstan was ruled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4583,2952,470,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-almaty-region","tag-altyn-emel","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462","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=48462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48464,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462\/revisions\/48464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48462"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}