Shaking Minaret - Esfahan
我们的‘导游’告诉我们说，Esfahan有个建筑物很特别，很多游客特地过来看它。它特别于，当右手边的柱子一摇晃， 左手边的那一块也跟着摇晃。心想：柱子会摇晃？那建筑物不是很危险？听起来很不巩固的样子。‘导游’只说，建筑物很巩固，只是柱子会摇晃而已，这更是它特别之处。
原来那建筑物叫做Shaking Minarets. 买了门票以后，等了差不多40分钟，负责人终于报告着请所有游客到空地去集合，因为摇晃柱子即将要表演了。仰头一看，怎么有个人在屋顶上。不一会儿，那人开始摇晃柱子，看了有种啼笑皆非的感觉。还以为，这建筑物会很神奇的自动摇晃，原来是靠人力。但，它确实有它的特别之处。当右边柱子被摇晃时，左边的也跟着摇动起来。但，建筑物却很扎实的敖立在原地。
差不多五分钟，表演就完毕了。等了将近四十分钟，就为了看那五分钟。。。？？但，还是值得的！
Shaking Minarets with Mongol style architecture, which located in Esfahan is one of the extraordinary monuments in Iran. The unique of the minaret is the fact that If someone climb up the very narrow stairway to the top of one of these two minarets and lean hard against the wall, it will sway back and forth the other minaret. Experts have explained the situation as something that has occurred gradually with the passage of time.
We decided to have a view on this impressive building as recommended by our ‘tour guide’. There were many tourists waited for the ‘shaking performance’. After 40 minutes, the person in charged invited all of us to gather in front of the building before the show started.
As our ‘tour guide’ explanation, I expected that, the minarets would shake by itself. In fact, there was someone climbed up to the stairway to shake the minaret. Amazingly, another minaret was shaking too. Yet, the building stood firmly, merely the minarets were shaking. It’s impressive!
I have to wait for almost 40 minutes to view a 5 minutes ‘shaking performance’….? Yet, it’s worthy…!