A little anticlimactic after seeing the Terracotta Warriors. We hired a elongated golf cart to forgo all the walking in the freezing cold. The big mound of dirt is suppose to be where the emperor is burried. It is said that The First Emperor was buried with palaces, scenic towers, officials, valuable utensils and "wonderful objects," with 100 rivers fashioned in mercury and above this heavenly bodies below which he wrote were "the features of the earth." The tomb remains unopened, in the hope that it will remain intact. Archeologists are afraid that if they do excavate the tomb, they might damage some of the valuables buried with emperor Qin Shi Huang.
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