WHAT IF I ASKED WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACE TO VISIT IN CHINA?

What if I asked you... What is the most important place to visit in China? Would you say the Great Wall? Seeing an opera? The mountains of Xinjiang? Or bamboo rafting in Yangshuo? No, most people would probably say you have to see the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an. A 2200 year old mausoleum depicting the real life army of the first Emperor of China. 8,000 thousand life size soldiers frozen in time for over two thousand years. Now the cool part is they each have a different face, a different body, a different pose. And they were colored before they were dug out of the ground. Qin Shi Huang believed that after he died, his empire should continue with him in the afterlife. So he built this army to protect him. And while it is very, very cool, you can actually only see part of it because there's somewhere that we can't go here, and that is his tomb. His tomb has never been opened. It is literally just a big hill in the middle of nowhere nearby. Ancient records describe his tomb with rivers of flowing mercury, pearls and gems arranged as stars on the ceilings. But because of this, the tomb has never been opened. Modern soil tests around the site have found dangerously high mercury levels. It's said that there are booby traps and they are worried that it could release toxic gases. So basically, everyone's afraid to open it. But for now, you can see the soldiers in all their glory by buying your ticket ahead of time on the Trip.com app. Believe me, you're going to want to see this.