Ming Graves?

You may ask me: why with an interrogation?

Something that really deceived me was this, because I didn’t see any “grave”! haha

When we were at the hotel, we contacted with the girl in charge of helping the guests, preparing the trips, doubts, general information about Beijing, and what we really wanted to see was “The Great Wall”, and she told us that trip included a smaller one, to “the Ming Graves”, and firstly I liked that possibility, because I thought it could be interesting, since they’re quite far from the city centre, and the public transport would be something really tedious and long, so we decided sign in the trip, which besides was led by a Chinese tourist guide who spoke very good English.

So the following day we went straight to the graves, and on the way he was explaining us any building or monument we saw, and finally we got to the graves. Just at the entry there’s a kind of map what shows you all you can visit, and the tourist guide told us we could only see a part, because the rest of the monument was under restoration, so we only saw some temples, typical traditional Chinese buildings, but no graves, so can I say I visited Ming Graves? or should I include it in my non-visited-places list?

Honestly, I was very disappointed, because it was some of my planned places to visit, but it was possible, and I don’t know if I’ll have that possibility again, but that wouldn’t be a great reason to come back to China. I suppose next time I come back to China I’ll go and visit other cities.