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No.132 East Street Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 029-87480388
Being that our tour was to begin at 8 a.m. we decided to try the buffet in the hotel. Oh, my God! It was all Chinese style food, of course, after all where are we! We took a hard boiled egg and some sweet cakes and warm orange juice. The oj and milk were in those large machines like a slurpie, but they were warm, quite a shock when you are not expecting it. There was rice, vegetables, noodles, dumplings with meat inside, rice soup, lots of cakes and sweet breads and cakes. The hard boiled egg...
XI'an, China dancejillToday we slept in and relaxed getting ready for the day. First we got our tickets for tonights train to Beijing. We then caught a taxi and went to McDonald's for breakfast. It is down in the area of the Bell Tower and Drum Tower. The Bell Tower is a wooden tower, which is the largest and best-preserved of its kind in China, 36 meters (118 feet) high. It stands on a brick base 35.5 meters (116.4 feet) long and 8.6 meters (28.2 feet) high on each side. During the Ming Dynasty, Xian was an impor...
XI'an, China dancejillWhooo! Today was a day. I told Michael we were gonna hit it hard in Xi'an & we're off to a good start- First things first, I think it's important that you know to always say no to a 'Western Breakfast' in China. We signed up for it with our Canaan International Hotel....as it is true that fried rice and surprise dumplings do get old at 730 am. But the egg is only semi cooked. The sausage is strange in flavor, color, and texture- not to mention the odd habit of cutting the sausage into som...
Xi'an, China moberts
... terre cuite. C'est plutot une ville jeune et trepidente de 8 millions d'habitants qui est encore plus polluee que Beijing. L'auberge y est aussi jeune et bruyante et le bar a beau fermer vers 11h30, le party continue toute la nuit.
Nous avons donc visite les "Terra-cotta Warriors", le highlight de mon voyage jusqu'a maintenant. Cet empereur voulait se garantir une vie eternelle et a fait reproduire son armee de 6000 soldats (tous ...
... are friendly, running to the bottom of the garden just to wave to say hello. This was a welcome change to city life where everyone stares at you and never says a
word. The tracked narrowed, then narrowed some more, we were now in farmers fields full of orange trees, so we picked a few and charged our sugar levels a little. soon we were riding through the bushes as the track disappeared all together ...
... a model for almost every other country until the 18th century. He was the world's most powerful person in the world's most powerful country. There was no challenger. He considered his rule superior to any in Chinese history with perfectly good justification. He quickly became obsessed with the longevity of himself and his dynasty. Threats to his reign were savagely quashed. Books were banned, then burned ...
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China nietsreuef... help) and you can walk or ride bikes all the way around it. We did not have time for that, but we did have time for an informative little talk about feng shwei (sp?) which I really enjoyed by the way, but I didn't enjoy the sales pitches at the end for buying trinkets. The hawkers are everywhere here. It makes me wonder if it is the same in the US and I just don't notice it. Then it was time to head to the airport, but with an unexpected stop. Originally I had asked our guide if ...
Xi'an, China jbdsalem... they came about and why the warriors are damaged. Site 3, the smallest, had the Generals and high ranking officers in it along with some horses. This site had been badly damaged during the raids and consequently only had a few complete statues. Site 2 is still largely being excavated, and doesn't contain any complete warriors. There are however some complete warriors on the side depicting archers, generals, and infantry ...
Xi'an, China weebleandbob... poznej 10 rozdílů"). Dál vede romanticky zaprásená cesta poli az k hlavní silnici. Na oběd kotvíme v zapadlé restauraci, kde si dáváme knedlíčky plněné masem. Jako první věc servírka polozila na stůl s hůlkami i toaleťák, coz v nás vzbudilo mírné obavy;). Maso se nakonec ukázalo býti něčím jako petrzelí. Chutné to moc nebylo, toaleťák vsak třeba nebyl. S Kamilem pak jestě nechtěně objízdíme cel ...
Xi'an, China mys... considered. In the morning, we had two hours to walk along and appreciate the beauty of the lake before heading off for Lhasa.
En route we noticed a local festival thing going on so stopped to investigate. It turned out to be some Tibetan horsemen, dressed in traditional costume performing stunts from their horses. The only stunt we got to see was where they ride as fast as they could down the sand track, bending to the side ...

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