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Top Hotels in Xian
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Imperial Hong Kong
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Best Western Longmen Hotel Sha Shanghai
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Jinjiang Hotel Chengdu
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Courtyard Wuxi
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Holiday Inn Guiyang
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Sheraton Changsha Hotel
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Grand Soluxe Hotel & Resort Sanya
160 reviews
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Best Western Premier Ocean Hotel Xinjiang Uygur
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Helenbergh International Hotel Masion Guangzhou
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Sofitel Hotel Zhengzhou
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Eversunshine Hotel Shanghai
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The Westin Shanghai
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Gloria Plaza Hotel Dalian
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East Seaport Ningbo
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Nanyang King''s Gate Hotel Guangzhou
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Catic Hotel Zhuhai
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New Times Shenzhen
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Grand Lapa, Macau Macau Peninsula
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Best Western Premier Qingdao Kilin Crown Hotel
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Guangzhou Grand International H
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Xian
Travel Blogs from Xian, China
Xiantastic
This is a top pick! ... massive and imposing city gates, a reminder of its illustrious past when it served as the imperial capital of China for some eleven dynasties. Modern Xian is in many ways a typical Chinese city, characterised by demolition (most of which seems to be ...
Chinese Surprises (including a ride in a cop car!)
This is a top pick! ... has been restored after countless souvenir sellers and pushy touts trying to part us from our cash! Hopefully this will be a trend we see as we travel through the rest of China and beyond! (Although I doubt either of these things would happen in ...
Xian and the Terracotta Army
This is a top pick! ... is amiable and his wife cooks up good grub. We retire to bed feeling relaxed and happy. We take the bus out to China's hottest tourist attraction, the Terracotta Army. In 220BC Emperor Qin Shihuang manufactured an entire clay army to guard him in the ...
Ancient Capital
This is a top pick! ... was not really so bad since the previous flight to Xi'an was delayed for over 3 hours. Got a window seat on the Air China flight but only a tiny bag of nuts, barely bigger than a single peanut itself, and some kiwi juice to snack on. The Shuyuan ...
Nighttraining through Northern China
This is a top pick! ... has been under excavation ever since. If you've seen the warrior pictures before, I can advise you not to visit Xian on your China trip. Although impressive enough, I found the visit strangely bland. After the huge tourist circus around the site has you ...
Checking out the Terracotta Army
This is a top pick! ... lot (Chengdu - pandas, Leshan - standing Buddha and then a cruise down the Yangtze through the 3 Gorges) in before we leave China. Hopefully the weather will get better and we won't be too tired to appreciate it (am actually qute knackered from doing ...
Smile... we're leaving tomorrow
This is a top pick! ... Made in China' also. Even the book that Pat brought with him from Dublin, a book on India, is, you guessed it, made in China. · Bijo Pat tried bijo this evening, that potent (56%), liver killing stuff the Chinese seem to like. He didn't mind it ...
8th wonder of the world
This is a top pick! ... gruelling 13-hour journey by sleeper train... I did't get much sleep, but Rich snored contentedly in his bunk! Xi'an is China's most ancient capital, was founded by the first emperor of the very first unified dynasty, the Qing dynasty. It is of ...
Terracotta Warriors
This is a top pick! ... I'm happy. Went to much needed macas and internetted before returnign to the hotel. The taxis continue to be cheap here in China... as long as you have your destination in Chinese characters. John is definitely treating us to a wide array of Chinese ...
Xi'an - Warrior Country
This is a top pick! ... 2 chinese guys who were completely intrigued by us. They couldn't believe that Aishlings hair was natural and they explained the workings of China and talked about some of the sights in China and Ireland. All in Chinese. Lets just say it took a lot of ...
xian and terracota army
This is a top pick! ... on yet another overnight train checked into hotel and hopped on local bus to the Terracota army as must see when visiting china. Thousands of life size soldiers guarding a forgotten about emporer until a "peasant farmer" their words!! stumbled across one ...
Smog City
This is a top pick! ... .....skies completely darkened with dense smog and pollution. As we rose in the airplane (gods knows how he knew which direction he was going) we past above the clouds and got a view of the sun...the first in 3 days. This is polluted China at its ...
Now in Xian
This is a top pick! ... go from here. A Canberra Consular official kind of put my mind to ease by saying that a lot of Aussies lose their passport in China... but I dread the inconvenience and cost that I have to go through to get one back. It will be interesting to see how I ...
Happy New Year
This is a top pick! We spent the morning catching up on sleep (you wouldn't believe how tiring this traveling thing is) then booked a train ticket to Beijing with the help of our hotel manager, Jim Beam. He wrote out exactly what we wanted in Chinese which made it way ...
We collected our bags from luggage storage ...
This is a top pick! ... one told us that - it would have saved us worrying. The Terracotta Warriors cost 65 yuan each to enter ($8.50), really expensive for China, but it was definitely worthwhile. We saw pits #2 and #3 before pit #1 which was the right thing to do, since ...
Xi'an
This is a top pick! ... , in my previous entry, I said that Pingyao had the only completely intact city wall in all of the China. Yeah, well, that's not entirely true. It seems that Xian also has one (any complaints should be taken up with Lonely Planet and not me). You can ...
On the Way to Lhasa
This is a top pick! It occurred to me after boarding the 48 hour train to Lhasa, Tibet that many might not have fully understood the "point and shoot" photo that I sent from our last stop in Beijing. Ellen was even a little bit confused by the photo at first. For those who ...
Ancient History, What Dynasty?
This is a top pick! ... minutes, he gave us our bags and we got to the station with five minutes to spare, for the 9 hour ride to Xian. The big problem in China with the trains is that you can't buy your forwarding tickets before you arrive at your destination. You have to ...
Xi'an Warriors
This is a top pick! ... to buy jade in the future. Onwards we first went to the a museum where we saw various artifacts from the different feudal China dynasties. We also rubbed the nose of the guarding dragons for good luck, then moved onto the Huaqing Pools at the foot of ...
Going Potty in Xi'an
This is a top pick! ... Qin Shi Huang around 2200 years ago. He had been a very successful (read bloodthirsty and bellicose) emporer that had united all of China. These warriors were built over many years, when he finally popped his clogs his tomb was decorated as he'd desired. ...
Xi'an - Home to the 8th wonder of the world
This is a top pick! I finally managed to get some sleep on the train! A a top-bunk sleeper (there are three tiers in 'hard sleeper') so I could stick my feet out the end of the bed! Whoa! 12 hours later and I'm in Xi'an, happy days, all for the bargain price of less than a ...
Teracotta Warriors
This is a top pick! ... was pretty simple. I jumped on another night train and 15 hours later I was in the middle of China. The only reason to come to Xian is to see the Terracotta Warriors. Just like everyone else I had heard about this massive tomb since ...
Once in, hard to get out.
This is a top pick! After all the endless sights and sounds of Beijing, including the Forbidden City, we boarded our train for Xi'An. Saw Terracotta Army yesterday which was fabulous. Leaving here tomorrow, trying to get trains is like golddust, managed and we are heading ...
Adios Huangdao, hola backpacking!
This is a top pick! ... so M & I shared a lovely 200km trip on a shitty little broken fold out seat. By the way, did you know Xian has the worst roads in China? Taking a bus in town is almost deafening with all the rattling, and it turns out most of the country roads aren't much ...
Christmas isn't Christmas........in Xi'an
I have just been out walking the streets of Xi'an with the other volunteers taking in Christmas Eve in China. This was our observation: Christmas in China is Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day, Halloween, and New Years all rolled into one and ...
2nd Halt - Xian
... The earliest evidence of human habitation dates back more than 6,000 years to the villages of primitive Chinese tribes. Xi'an was China's capital during several dynasties. Over 2,000 years ago, Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first ruler to unify China, built ...
Xian
... it was on to the Muslim quarter and the great mosque. There is a surprisingly large Muslim community living in Xian. The mosque a mixture of traditional Chinese and tradition Muslim architecture lead to interesting surroundings. Still wanting to fit a ...
Terracotta Warriors
... hotel had managed to book us our train tickets to shanghai so that was one weight off our minds. We walked down through Xian to the internet place to book accommodation for Shanghai. Street performers as young as 3 were doing acrobatic tricks, which was ...
Loose Ends
... it was a long road. They got one and hurried back piled our bags in to the back and we were off. The concrete jungle of Xian station beckoned us once more we were soon in a massive queue just to get in. The queues continued inside and all bags had to ...
Terracotta Army
... around we finally found the bus to the Terracotta army. A short 17km journey takes us an hour. Seems to be the norm across China. We arrive and I finally get to try out my student ID. Half price tickets. And it works. It does get checked at ...