Emperor's tomb
Germany sent over archeologists to help locals restore this gateway to the emperor's tomb.
Boom needed a break from this tourism-intense day, playing in the mud with a stick.
Griffin, just a little shorter than Emperor Duc
In fact, all the statues had to be a bit shorter than the infamously short Emperor Duc.
Two out of 5 of us would have towered over Emperor Duc.
The emperor liked to ride elephants and horses.January 4, 2011
Hard to believe that we also saw Tuc's tomb in this tourism-loaded day, and it wasn't even lunchtime yet! You can see that Boom took a break, playing in the rain and mud with his stick. We left him behind, although in sight, and another guide took him by the hand to take him to catch up with us, until I gave him the signal it was okay to leave Boom in the mud.
Duc's tomb was a real sanctuary, as if designed for a peaceful resting spot for the living. It turns out that this incredibly short, melancholy, self-critical, poetry-writing emperor was so pessimistic that he built his tomb and resting spot years before he died. Duc would come and roam the tomb grounds, writing poetry. He wrote a treatise criticizing himself as an ineffective emperor who let the people down and he had it written in stone, placing it at his tomb to be read by everyone who visited.
This was one dark little emperor. And, did I say he was small? So small, Griffin was almost as tall as him. He decreed that no statues at his tomb could be taller than him, so the statues are all mighty short. We all compared our height to his, standing next to the statues that were a smidgen shorter than him.
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