Xi'an Government Resorts - Comments and Reviews

To Xian Well I thought Dali was over when I posted the last blog entry but it the best night was yet to come...I just went to do my emails and have some tea and dropped Sami and Nicola a txt to say I was in the Tibetan café. They came and joined and I had some nice stew and a couple of beers. Within an hour we were having a laugh with a local ex...

HE SAID: We woke up earlier than normal to have time for some breakfast and to make our flight to Guilin. I think that our taxi driver (of whom was cheaper than the others) probably took the long route to the airport thereby saving the tolls that probably exist on the faster route. We hit a ton of traffic on the side roads and as a result, we we...

Arrived at the home of the first Chinese emporer, Qin, the dude in Hero. He basically united China by killing off the leaders of the other states, then built the Great Wall. Kind of like Stalin on steroids, his final act was to order artisans to create the terracotta armies, and by way of thanks, have them buried alive. Nice chap! Still, he had ...

The fantastic soft sleeper made all the difference for our arrival in Xian. There were four bunks in our cabin - the top two were occupied by a french couple. We all had flat screen TV's and a European toilet to share! It was a smooth ride so we woke up feeling very enthusiastic - until we put on our back packs. It was raining again so on went t...

In the morning I went to the Forest of Stone Tablets, a museum with the heaviest collection of books in the world being that they're all made of gigantic stone tablets, some ten feet high, and there are 2300 of them! Then I got in trouble for taking pictures which to be honest they signs say not to do, but I was taking video not photos so I thou...