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Whatta Lotta Terracotta
After successfully purchasing our first train tickets in China (via an "International Ticket Office, so our Chinese language skills weren't greatly challenged), we set off on a 12 hour overnight train journey to Xi'an. This was actually a more comfortable experience than we had imagined, after dealing with the initial stress of finding the correct …
Xi'an
We'd been given a recomendation by fellow traveller types to stay in a place called BackPax hostel in Xi'an. This proved to be a cracking choice, being the only hostel I've been in where the toilets were actually worthy of a photo. It turns out that the top floor of the Price hotel was once a high class spa. They were fleecing customers for …
Onto Xian
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 …
Jack D burger og stenkrigere i Xi'an
Det var første gang vi prøvede et sovetog og vi må indrømme at det er noget rarere end sovebus. Det bumler mindre, du har et toilet og man kan rent faktisk ligge udstrakt. På trods af at vi blev vækket 5:30 var vi forholdsvist udhvilede da vi ankom, så selvom det tog en 20 minutters tid at finde bussen, var det ikke så slemt. Hostelet var heldigvis …
Tang West Market
... he was bored, so he followed me round and told me the English names of some of the things which was quite sweet of him. He even let me take photos in the vaulted room that was the only part with a 'No Photos' sign prominently displayed. Guess I didn't look like too much of a security risk.
I also found a Buddhist temple which was quite small, and am probably in some film that was being shot as background! I then managed to ...
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