If you really want to retire from the world, live in a really inaccessable place! Dark Roasted Blend takes a pictorial tour of four monasteries built on top, clinging to the side of, or inside mountains. This one is Sigiriya, in Sri Lanka. Link
Been there! But it's an ancient palace, not a monastery.
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The Natural Rock Citadel of Uçhisar is awesome!
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Hmmm . . . looks like a dead ringer for Mount Muldoon in the anime El Hazard.
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