Western Xia mausoleums — Attraction in Yinchuan City

Although these recently UNESCO world heritage inscripted monuments are quite interesting, it is difficult to visit for non-Chinese speakers, as there appears to be no-one who can speak any English there, so you had to follow the 'not so great English signage' as best as you could, trying the QR code ticket I got via trip.com in various places, some successfully, some not - overall I could get the gist of things in the exhibition halls before the transfer buses to the monuments, although to try to work out which buses and which numbered tombs I could get to was a challenge - I managed to get to tomb 3 which seems to be the most important one and I could see some of the others...

Western Xia Imperial Tombs are a group of tombs of imperial emperors in once a powerful kingdom called Western Xia (1038~1227). Western Xia Mausoleum combined Han culture, Buddhist culture and Dangxiang culture, into a unique form of Chinese cemetery architecture. Due to the unusual shape of the mausoleum pagodas, many have named them the pyramids of China. Only 3 of the 9 imperial tombs are open to the public. There is a museum within the grounds providing good explanation and history of the tombs. Mesmerizing structure...

You won’t see much relics there, but this place is very significant in history. Because the great Genghis Khan of Mongolia died fighting against Western Xia. So the Mongolians destroyed everything of the western Xia in vicious revenge including digging out the tombs of their ancestors. You can see those holes still 10-20 meters deep after...