Ming Tombs, Thursday afternoon:
After walking all over the Wall, we rode in the vans for about 90 minutes through the Chinese backcountry to get to the valley where the Ming emperors were buried. The one whose excavated tomb we got to walk through: Dingling. (I'm not making that up.)
The thing they don't tell you up front: They've taken pretty much everything out of the tomb, making it more or less just an underground room with fluorescent lighting. (Particularly disappointing after the grandeur of the Wall.) Here we are making our way out and on to his monument where they note his accomplishments. It was blank. No joke.
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