Monday started off with the usual crummy breakfast at the hotel, but we got a bonus fifty percent off today because Somchai found a big hair in his congee. Then we drove about an hour and a half north of Beijing to the Ming Emperors Tombs. It's a big valley encircled with mountains, important for the usual Feng Shui reasons. The thirteen Ming emperors from 1400 to mid 1600's are all buried here, each in his own palace mausoleum underneath his own mountain. The whole place is surrounded by a 40 km wall, but since the emperors needed their elbow room, even in death, it's very spread out and hard to get around. The main attraction is actually the Sacred Way, a seven kilometer walkway in the center of the area that connects all the farflung tombs.