Shangri La Hotel Xian Xi'an

... Dien avec qui je me suis amusee. Nous y avons rencontre un voyageur Kenien et j'ai pu pratiquer mon swahili et ma petite chanson.<br><br>Je ne suis pas la seule a connaitre le chinois, vous demanderez a Pops de vous ecrire les caracteres chinois pour "Exit" ou "Sortie"...<br><br>Le 2e jour a Xi'an, nous avons visite le Musee Historique de Shanxi, la Pagode de la Grande Oie Sauvage, la Grande Mosquee et les souks du quartier musulman ...

... roadworks... This kind of experience at least made us begin to think less harshly about the locals' lack of friendliness - as we'd probably be a bit bristly living in a construction site too.<br> <br> <br>The Terracotta Warriors were a definite highlight of China for us - huge scale, impressive craftsmanship, exceptional archeological expertise and a very professional tourist experience. They also had KFC! The sight itself is what ...

... coke, pepsi, iced tea with sugar and some other unknown beverages. <br> <br>I tried eating some of the jerky we bought in Lijiang, but dumped it on the floor. I said a four letter word that meant something like Dang in front of a young English girl (oops, sorry!)! I ate some pistachios instead while Bill slurped down a Coke. <br> <br>I ended up buying some expensive yak jerky (50 yuan, $8.50), I hope it is good. I ate some of my crackers for a snack and will try ...

... ethnic minority groups of the area, and in typical Zhang Yimou fashion utilized large numbers of people (over 700 actors in all) and props to give off an impressive yet slightly intimidating feeling. I had seen another one of Zhang Yimou's similar productions set in Hangzhou the first week I arrived in China (there are 3 in all, one more in Lijiang, Yunnan province), and had been wanting to see this one since I arrived. Everyone seemed quite pleased with the ...

... managed to squeeze them in on my last day. I was actually a bit underwhelmed by the warriors, although perhaps i was expecting too much. You can't get that close to them, and i never quite got a sense of awe about how old they are or what they mean. That evening it was another night train to Chengdu where i had arranged to meet Dan and Karin as we wanted to do a similar route through western sichuan.

... seis ingleses. Guet House é sem duvida uma ótima dica para quem vai à Xian. Fomos à programação obrigatória dos Guerreiros de Terracota, que foi outra sandice megalomaníaca de outro imperador chinês, mas que assim como as outras:impressiona! Conhecemos o Allan, brasileiro que estava viajando com sua amiga polaca. Foi bom trocar uma idéia em ¨brasileiro¨ após 5 meses de estrada. Filed under: amigos by juliana

... the Tang Dynasty show which was a recreation of the shows they did in the Tang Dynasty over 1000 years ago. The costumes and outfits were great and there was excellent Chinese instrumental music (most of which was played on instruments used then but not used anymore). I arrived back to my hotel at 10PM to a comfortable bed.

... the train the whole trip). They had a really interesting story; they had been visiting a village on behalf of the government that was about to be flooded by a dam and had quite obviously been stuck by how horrible this was for the villagers. Again, they were willing to talk politics concerning the price of progress and how backward the countryside was. This was totally different to my last visit to china 10 years ago when people didn't want to talk at all about ...

The night train arrived in Xi'an the next morning and we saw another 10 million city of China, although it felt much cosier and laid back than Beijing. When arriving to the hotel we saw the morning tai chi parade at a square and directly took off through our strolls through the city. By now it was a group of 4 most of the time doing the discoveries together: Matt, Gareth from ...

... die gesamte Nacht!), einen andraengelten und die einfachsten Atemzuege schwer machten. Vom Gang zur Toilette ganz zu Schweigen. Das Licht brennt die ganze Nacht, es ist laut wie auf dem Rummelplatz und der Essenswagen kommt jede Stunde. Aber das Buch war gut. Fuer mich war die Nacht etwas angenehmer, Fensterplatz!!!! Mit dem Kopf auf dem Tisch habe ich die eine oder andere Sekunde (vielleicht auch Minute) Schlaf bekommen, nicht zuletzt, weil Julia alle ...