Forest of Stone Steles Museum Xi'an

Desde Beijing, tomamos el tren nocturno hacia Xian, la tierra de los guerreros de terracota. El tren estuvo bien, ya que nos esperábamos algo menos moderno, pero nos sorprendió. La estación de tren era gigantesca, como casi todas las construcciones y la sala de espera...aún mayor...Afortunadamente la persona que nos vendió los tickets nos explicó …

As the weather in China began to chill and my last semester of college was beginning to wind down, our trip to Xi'an finally began. Xi'an is one of those places that are semi-well known all over the world. If you can't recall the city you may very well be able to identify why the city has become famous to the outside world in the past few decades.< …

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This is our first of seven domestic flights. We wake up at 5 AM. Yikes! Gerry meets us in the lobby and we exchange gifts. We give him a tip that is not obligatory, but we feel he deserves. He gives us a paper cutting (see photo) that he explains is practiced as a form of meditation. I am intrigued.

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... I was willing to pay. Tuesday was another day of this 'n' that. We started with a visit to the Forest of Stone Steles Museum, a museum of stone tablets that were engraved with Chinese text and were gathered in 1100 AD. They were ...

... bell, a much smaller one weighing only 5 tons, was cast. The original Jingyun Bell can now be seen in Forest of Stone Steles Museum.   The engravings on the doors of the Tower reflect the decorative fashion of Ming and Qing Dynasties, recounting ...

... 20:30 update. Had a great day in Xian today. First of all, we took a (very cheap!) taxi to the Forest of Stone Steles museum, which has the largest collection of steles cut in 837 A.D., the oldest existing texts of the Confucian classics, and more than ...