Jianguo Hotel Xi An Xi'an

... China. The smog is thick due to a ton of development, the streets aren't clean, and so many people are just letting their kids go number 2 on the street, its disgusting. One lady brought her kid over to where we were waiting for a bus at one point and had it do its business next to us (what a ***** right). I guess she thought the "western barbarians" deserved it. No one has diapers here, kids just have pant with a slit in it and ...

... of the five Taoists holy peaks is also reachable from Xian with a couple of hours&#8217; drive.<br><br>We had three days in Xian, spending two of them in the massive tourist attractions of the Terracotta Army and Hua Shan. The first day we went to see the Warriors right after our arrival. There were some thousands of statues of soldiers in three different pits under ground. So it&#8217;s statues of warriors inside warehouses, but what makes it ...

... hair care". Pak wat en vraag aan een willekeurige shopbezoeker: "Shampoo?". Ondertussen wijs je naar de verpakking. 4 van de 5 mensen kijken je aan of je debiel bent (kan me voorstellen dat het er ok zo uit ziet). De 5e neemt de zaak serieus en oefent haar volledige Engelse vocabulair op jou: "What kind of hair?" "Real cullllls or my culllls?" (veel chinezen hebben permanent, bij voorkeur over de gehele haardos behalve de pony). "Shampoo step 1 or ...

... kage, og Esbern bestilte en sandwich, som desværre viste sig at være sukkerglaseret. Så prøvede han et pølsebrød, og det var også sukkerglaseret. I løbet af weekenden prøvede vi flere steder at finde sandwich, men tilsyneladende sukkerglaserer man alting i Xi'an, og det virker altså lidt underligt at spise en skinke/ost- eller kyllingesandwich med et tykt lag sukker på. Jeg foreslog derfor Esbern at holde sig til kage, og til sidst gav han vist efter. Det blev en travl ...

This is what I wrote and saved on 15th April: Hellooo all my friends and family in England! As I mentioned on my Beijing travelpod..(which now has photos on it)! we had to go to the Terracotta Warriors a day early, so although we were sooo tired, a can of redbull later...I had perked up considerably!.It is an amazing sight..not as professional an exhibition as when we went in London Glyn..but much bigger(obviously)! and fantastic to say we have seen them in ...

Sunday evening through Tuesday, September 23rd through the 25th After a hotpot dinner Sunday evening in Beijing (think fondue with more varied and more exotic foods, and a spicy oil and a less-spicy bouillon to cook in), we hopped the night train to Xi'an, home of the world-famous terra cotta soldiers that I'd never heard of until I started planning this trip. For the uninitiated, in the mid-1970s, some guys digging a well outside of Xi'an thunked into something with a ...

Okay, haven't had much chance to post since Xi'an, so I have a lot to talk about in today's entry. We left Xi'an and saw the Terracotta Warriors on our last morning there. They are located in a complex about half an hour east of the city. Like most major attractions in China, they have overhauled the facilities greatly in the past few years, so you now drive up close in a nice parking lot, have "sightseeing carts" to take you up close to the action (for a fee, of course), and then get ...

Just a super-quick entry... had an overnight sleeper last night (soft class, thankfully) from Xi'an to Pingyao, arriving at the bright 'n' shiny hour of 5:50 am, local. Fortunately we had "sightseeing carts" to take us to the hotel - after 8am, they gate off the city center and you have to trek in on foot. There's a lot to say about Pingyao's history, but to sum up: it's the city that basically established banking in ...

It was a rainy day and we first hesitated to go to visit the walls that there are all around the city center. Xi An is one of the last city where the original walls remains: the bad sections have been restored and by now, you can go all around the city center (14km) walking or cycling. After few negative answers from to rent a bike due to the slippery floor, we finally succeed to get one but after few km I broke my bike... Kind ...