Golden Throne Hotel Xi'an
No.78 Yanta North Road, Beilin District Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054, China
Travel Blogs Nearby
Johnny and the Terracotta Army
... it would be another 20 odd years till all the restoration was complete. Currently a team works at night when the tourists go home, to restore the soldiers. Just imagine humpty dumpty times maybe 7000 or so, and you get an idea of the task these guys have.
As we arrived to pit 1, and stood up on the platform with the army facing you, you really marvel at the amount of work that was put in to make each soldier extremely detailed and unique (no two ...
Cycling
We got up early, having had very little sleep after the karaoke, and Anne, Brent, Bec and I hired bikes to cycle round the walls of Xi'an... it's about 14km round, and was such a lovely morning. I was absolutely loving it, wind rushing through hair, pushing any kind of left over beer headache out the window... until my back tyre got a puncture. And then Becca's pedal fell off. Top quality bikes you understand.
Still, we managed ...
Funerary Art, Folk Art and the Art of Living
... the building of Pit 1, Olivia our guide outlined the plan - we would go to Pit 1 to get an overview, go to see a movie, and then return for a walk around the entire pit. We followed her suggestion and gave up our viewing experience with few people to see the movie in another building. The movie really was quite interesting, dramatizing some of the time period and how the warriors were constructed. To exit from the movie, we ...
War on Terra
If it wasn't for the Terracota Army I'd say Xi'an was a little lame. Maybe that's a bit harsh but we're not blown away by the city itself. Nothing wrong with it but there isn't that much on offer here other than trips to other places as far as we could tell - and I guess I just prefer the mountains. That said though the Army is here and that truely is a world wonder.
Thousands upon thousands of individual and unique lifesize model soldiers can't fail to impress - on ...
Traveller Feet
... nights we get, no matter how many cat-naps we have, we still have an exhausted feeling that pulls across our chests. I think after nearly a year of living out of our backpacks and moving homes every few days our bodies want to have a proper rest now. It is a very strange feeling though because mentally, I at least, feel like I could keep traveling for another year… but I don’t know how long my body could put up with that!
The next day we decided to go and ...


