Terracotta warriors hoax

04.04.2015

I had to go to the terracotta warriors alone because Carl thought the line would be too long. It was a big mess and lots of people were cutting in, so I just cut in too. He didn't like it so he left.

I got there and I just thought everything was so fake looking and inauthentic. They left some artifacts in the ground in a "haphazard" style. Like "oh look at how rugged this is, we just left these pieces here for you to look at, we didn't dig them out yet". Except they've been that way for forty years? I don't think so. The whole thing just stunk to me.

I read some things about it when I got back home, for example, China has always refused to let other countries' archaeologists examine the artifacts. Even UNESCO didn't push them to make them allow other scientists look at the statues and they still got heritage status! Hmmm, interesting... I'm no expert, but I've been to a lot of museums and I've seen a lot of old stuff. These things REALLY didn't look that old to me. Nevertheless, it was still an interesting thing to see, and it was nice to sort of fantasize about a crazy emperor that could have demanded such a fantastic burial ground. Who knows?

After spending $30 on that, I went back to the city to see the Muslim quarter, where I got pushed around in a giant crowd for a few hours and had some soup with bread in it. This, evidently, was the promised soup from yesterday. It was pretty good. The children serving it were entertaining. They gave you a number and when your soup was ready they yelled it out to anyone listening. I had to listen really hard because I am still not so good at numbers. I got my soup eventually.

I went home to the hotel and not 15 minutes after I had gotten there, Carl's friends came to check on me to see if I was OK. They said Carl was really worried. I didn't ask where Carl was. I just said thank you, yes I'm fine, and went to bed.

In the morning, I got the bus home, it took about 10 hours.

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