However we decided there's something very right and fitting about NOT being able to see the Emperor's Clothes.
People were lovely anyway and lots of folks tried to help us but English is rare in NT so we ended up being directed to this Exhibition instead ...
... and since it was on the Sacred Caves up there in Dahtong in the northernmost reaches of Mainland China, and since I'm crazy about sacred caves, we didn't mind at all.
Btw, did you know that these sacred images aren't anything like the ones in Pak Ou, in Laos, where the sacred objects are carved in the limestone. That's what I thought I was going to see when we eventually get there, however in Dahtong Caves the statues are made out of clay and plaster and look like this:
74,000 of these up there in Dahtong, can you imagine? These caves are in a really obscure part of China and in an industrial, coal-mining part of the Mainland too, singularly unpretty apparently, and there's nothing else to do there, but no one I know who has visited has ever complained.
Maybe the Mighty Marg and I can visit sometime in the near future, which she wants to mainly because, I suspect, Madam Chang was little more than a child when she mapped those caves and Marg loves to discover new heroines for her Wall of Feminist Heroes.
And since you probably don't want to, like us, spend an entire afternoon wandering footsore and weary looking for THIS Exhibition, it's in the very easy locate-able spot of Chi Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill ...
An arial photo of Chi Lin Nunnery.
... in the wonderful little museum in the gardens ...
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