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If you enjoyed those cliff houses, you might like Cappadocia in Turkey which has a lot of similar dwellings, and even an underground town of sorts. A few of the

• aasasd 6y ago
  There are also massive temples cut from rock. E.g., from a quick search: - Kailasa temple https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/kailasa-temple-how-was-massive-hindu-temple-carved-out-single-rock-008249 https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/kailasa-... and http://www.indiagk.net/2014/06/kailash-temple-ellora-cave-temple.html?m=1 http://www.indiagk.net/2014/06/kailash-temple-ellora-cave-te... - https://www.easemytrip.com/blog/rock-cut-temples-and-architectures-india https://www.easemytrip.com/blog/rock-cut-temples-and-archite... - Masroor temples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masrur_Temples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masrur_Temples - https://photoscaping.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/celestial-rock-temple/ https://photoscaping.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/celestial-rock... My favorite is Petra city that has multiple large buildings carved right in the face of rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra
  • prawn 6y ago
    That's true, but what connects Bandolier and Cappadocia are that they are carved out of a softer material which was created as a thick layer of volcanic ash. Visiting both, you notice similarities. More for your list, that I visited back in the 1990s, are the Yungang Grottoes in Northern China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungang_Grottoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungang_Grottoes