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Xi'an Slideshow
Xi'an
Travel Blogs from Xi'an, China
Terracotta Warriors
... like walking on eggshells in our tiny cabin when we wanted to move. We cleaned our teeth and ate noodles for breakfast before w e arrived at Xi'an station at 9am. Our guide was ready on the platform, with a "Fisher" sign. He was the only guide to come ...
Big Mac Meal & 5 Chicken Burgers please
... and qigong class its just the best possible outcome and im so happy. anyway sorry so we got the night train from beijing to xi'an on monday night - 3-tiered hard sleepers but they were so nice and clean and stacked really high so youd loads of room so ...
CHENG DU where are you??
... using English as their second language but then as the ‘common’ language for the purposes of communication whilst here in China. Imagine this if you will. There are a group of people at the hotel and they are all from different ...
A Day Jam-Packed Full of Fun
... Hot Springs at the base of the mountain. This was a surprise stop no one knew about but it was pretty cool. An emperor during the Tang Dynasty built a palace at the site of the hot springs at the base of the mountain where he often took ...
Big Kind Bears
... get so up close and personal with them - the pictures are nothing short of brilliant and funny. Only a few days left here in Xi'an now, must do some more bargaining at the Muslim markets before we go - just today I knocked the price of a genuine ...
Warrior watch
... for dinnner, it turned out to be a good choice as the food was great, especially my shredded pork pancakes! Wednesday 9th September - Xi'an After such a busy day yesterday we made sure today was a bit more relaxed. In the morning we headed up into town ...
Xian i okolice
Wieczorem zapakowalismy sie na 15 godzin do pociagu do Xian, a ze nie bylo co w nim robic to zanotowalem sobie kilka spostrzezen :). Oto one: 1. roznice miedzy Tajami a Chinczykami: - rozmowa przez telefon: Tajowie mowia cicho zakrywajac sobie przy tym ...
Wonder of the World - Terracotta Army
... very well informed about Xi'an and all the sights. It was a lot of work to keep up with her. First stop in Xi'an was the Terracotta Warriors. I've already been to the exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA - but was very excited ...
Towers and Walls
... Pi seized power, deposing Xian in 220 and beginning the Three Kingdoms Period. Xian became a Duke and died a natural death. Train Xi'an - Horn; sleeper, French group - Wake up to Yellow ...
xi'an
... into open doorways and courtyards, dodging bicycles and the electric golf buggies wizzing around. Right now, we're in the city of Xi'an- the old finishing point for the Silk Road and home of the Terracotta Warriors. We've got blue skies at last, ...
Doing another great wall, this time on bikes :)
... the blue sky above. Of course, there was also the inevitable pollution in the middle that seems to hang around the cities of China, making even the sunniest days seem foggy and brown. Nevertheless, it was beautiful and a great way to spend the afternoon. ...
The travelling senior center
... together, but it is still impressive. They are over 2000 years old but still in pretty good shape! Other impressions of China so far- the congestion and the smog are overwhelming. Everywhere in the city, it smells like leaded gas/diesel fuel/some ...
Spring Travel spots
While in Xi'an, we wondered around the city, visited the Mosque and the Muslim Quarter, ate Chinese fast food, saw the new Starbucks-got my mug and a free coffee, went to the Terracotta Warriors, and bought some great ...
Qin and Tang
... Hotel (nice looking- shame about the toilets). Our guide found us and we collected another 6 people then set off straight out of Xi'an. Not as busy as Beijing but still quite a traffic nightmare. Apparently the metro (N-S) is nearly ready and the W-E one ...
Surprising, Spectacular Xi'an
... broke away from the vehicles to explore the hectic Muslim Quarter on foot. It’s easy for an American like me to forget that China has a significant and unique Islamic population, represented by the ethnically Asian Hui community. The ...
Ancient warriors, how a rickshaw nearly killed us
... seen them in a previous season. Well, it is worth the trip. In the Spring of 1974, a number of farmers near Xi'an discovered some ancient bronze weapons and pieces of broken terra-cotta armoured warriors while sinking a well. This turned out to be ...
An Army of Clay
... I'm not so sure I believe Bruce (to his disappointment), it did provide entertainment and distraction from the long, bumpy bus ride back to Xi'an. I hope I get a chance in 20 or 30 years to return to this site and see the changes that have taken place. ...
Biking around the wall of Xi'an
... nearly 10 USD. There was a few of my group sitting waiting. They asked me if I wanted to go to the wall that surrounds the city of Xi'an. I told them I wanted to use skype. After I spoke to my wife I went with them. We walked on top of the wall. We came ...
Last day in Xi'an and the train ride
... for lunch. After lunch we went to the store to pick up water and soda. I went to the ATM. I used the Construction bank of China. It has a relationship with Bank of America. There are no fees for using the ATM. Jim wanted to go to one of the markets. ...
Terracotta warriors
... at karaoke. Today was kinda relaxed compared to the last few days. Got my 1st mossy bite today, its not bad after 8 days in china. I'm still as white as the day i left :( WE went for an amazing Chinese with the group, had garlic broccoli, sweet ...
Excavation Xi'ty
... rest of the evening hoping not to see them again, for fear of a finger wagging or worse. We finished off our time in Xi'an having meat skewers and beer on the side streets, followed by more beer and wine at the hostel with some very friendly locals. ...
The good, the bad, and the unfortunate
Following the public holiday in China, transport systems were on overdrive with an estimated 20 million Chinese citizens traveling at any given time on the train services alone. Thus, in addition to dealing with the standard language barriers we were ...
Of teaching, mountains and pagodas
... we went to the disco I mentioned in the last posting. The disco turned out to be a nighclub - and the most famous one in Xi'an at that - which was good, and would have been more so had I not been extremely tired. It was packed (but then where isn't ...
Half-way house
... . Last Saturday I went to the Banpo Neolithic Village with one of the other teacher volunteers. Oficially rated as the second tourist attraction in Xi'an, I have to say that it is the worst I have ever been to (in my life). The first thing we saw was ...
City Wall
... bags, ready to check-out. We were lucky enough to have been visited by the Easter Bunny. He found us all the way in China! We had an egg hunt in Dad's room, where we crowned Liam the chief egg-finder. He was rewarded with some bunny ears and he had ...
Terracotta Armee
8:00 Tagwache, ab zum Bahnhof um erstens ein Zug-Ticket zurueck nach Beijing und zweitens mit dem oeffentlichen Bus zur Terracotta Armee zu fahren. Zug-Ticket hab ich jetzt einen Soft-Seater. Hard-Sleeper gabs keinen mehr und der doppelt so teuere ...
Xi'an
Here we are again in a big ancient city. The weather is terribly humid-hot, as in Shanghai. Going out it's really hard and we preferred to relax a bit in the hostel, avoiding the hot hours. The trip is going really well, quite smooth except for the ...
Fu Rao Yuen (Tang's Garden)
A huge garden and lake with landscape from the Tang dynasty. There is a open air laser and lights show in the evening, but I think they have to improve the sitting and sound qualities. You can't heard the commentaries clearly and you just sits ...