Citadines Xi'An Central

... buried about a kilometer from his tomb would protect his soul from evil spirits. These soldiers are unique---no two are alike. There are foot soldiers, calvary soldiers, archers, and chariot drivers and drivers. After the Emperor Qin died, the peasants revolted and raided the tombs of the terra cotta soldiers and broke and destroyed many of them. Then in 1974, several farmers were digging a well and they unearthed pieces of the soldiers. We got to meet one ...

... any rails. Making it to the top in plenty of time to see the view and sunset.There were 2 other people<br>already there. We all climbed a little higher to the best viewing spot, which enabled you too see all of xingping and the mountains in the background. Yet again let down by the weather, the sky was to humid for us to see the sunset, it disappeared into the mist before setting properly behind the mountains.<br>

... Let's Go. But this was a normal map for normal people and it was still useless. It was even in Chinese. Seriously, I give up. Me and maps just don't seem to be meant for each other. Which I suspect means I am destined to spend an awful lot of my future being lost. I stayed in the hotel room long enough to Ooh and Ahh at the air conditioning (to be charitable, my air con in Jinan has had a little bit too much personality recently and my bedroom probably makes hell seem ...

Yesterday, I arrived in Xi'an. In Shanghai, it was quite heavily raining, and I was even happy to use my rain jacket and rain protection for the back pack. Otherwise, it would have been so useless taking them all the way to China. In fact, as always it seems, I took too many things with me. But that's another story. Xi'an is world ...

We saw something truly unique here. We saw large groups of Chinese citizens standing properly and calmly in line, or queue for our British friends. Sadly these were only clay statues, but still it was very impressive. For anyone who has ever been to Chinatown in SF, you know what we mean. I have seen more westerners in this country get upset when a local citizen moves in front of them and gets to the window first to get ...

... now that it wouldn't cost them anything. They still wouldn't, but said that I could use the phone in my room to call them which completely contradicted the sticker on the phone saying: "No outside calls"! The moron of a receptionist had no idea what what I was talking about when I asked for the number of the operator so I had to pay for the call anyway. After getting the helpdesk to call me back they told me that they had put a block on my card as there had been a lot of activity ...

... met. The cycle was pleasent, but unfortunately a thick mist made visability pretty poor and we didnt se much of the city. after the cycle we hit the city sights and markets. Xian is really small when compared to Beijing, but it has a lot of history to it as it was the capital of china for so long. Unfortunately time constraints meant we werent able able to see al that we wanted to, but for now its a flight to Chengdu!

... assist him to rule the after life. The tomb itself was made on a map of China and was (is) solid gold. The two great rivers of China (Yellow and Yangtze) were made of mercury. They have found the tomb site, but are afraid of excavating as they have found traces of mercury and are not sure what the effect of excavating will have on the mercury. So for now they have the site, but have not dug any deeper. We spent the day finding out how they made the ...