DAY TRIPS: Lucky Land in Houston takes you on a journey to China through an outdoor museum.
takes you on a journey to China through an outdoor museum. It's a fun garden of pandas, Buddhas, monster robot art, martial arts, and terra-cotta soldiers.
It was the terra-cotta soldiers that brought me to the park among the flea markets, auto shops, and Mexican restaurants in North Houston. The statues are the last vestiges of theKaty, a Hong Kong real estate investor who lived in Seattle, built the gardens as a showplace of Asian culture. Among the many symbols of China brought to the Texas Coastal Plains were 6,000 terra-cotta soldiers. Poon had the soldiers made at one-third scale to match the clay army unearthed in 1974 by farmers nearWhen the Texas Department of Transportation announced that it was building a highway through the 40-acre gardens, Poon gave up on his Texas hobby and auctioned off everything. The emperor's army of sand-colored soldiers was furloughed to backyards around Houston.
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