Xi'an Museum & Small Goose Pagoda (Xiaoyanta)

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 …

When I developed my itinerary before I left, my plan for today was to visit a place called Hua Shan Mountain, one of the five sacred peaks of Taoism, offering some of the most dangerous hiking and sublime views in the world. You can imagine my disappointment when I realized that even if I could've made the summit today, I would be facing subzero …

So Xi'an has been really fun. My time here was pretty much a combination of seeing the city and forming more of a base for the eventual research (the three weeks of
life-is-nothing-but-research-and-sleep starts after the Xi'an-China introduction). Well, here is a
recap of the days in Xi'an. Didn't do too much when we first got
here …

note: this blog is between 26/12/2011 to 29/12/2011


Arriving at Xi’an Xian Yang international airport was probably one of the most eeriest moments I my life =S simply because it was the country side of china (which I’ve never really been to cause shanghai mainly city => very very little country life =.= )
whilst …

Today we got to have a sleep in cause of the plan change yesterday with how we were gonna see the terracotta warriors. So Renee and I got to be in control of our lives for the morning we decieded to go see some stuff.

Before our adventure started we got ourselves some tasty breakfast, I steered clear of the congee, but I ate I think... or …

With a very wet start to the morning things weren't off to a great start. As we were about to leave for our day of adventure we took one look outside then decided to retreat back to the hostel for some hot breakfast. It was absolutely hammering it down. We didn’t fancy traipsing around for hours in the pouring rain so we came to a decision …