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No.262 Fenghao East Road, Lianhu District Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710077, 29-8426-1888
My hour long flight into Xian went smoothly. If any of you ever travel to China, a couple of great web sites to use for researching and purchasing domestic air tickets are www.ctrip.com (click on the button in the upper right corner to change the site into English) and www.elong.net. The websites, as with virtually every place in China outside high-end hotels, do not accept international credit cards, so you can pick the ticket up at the airport and pay cash. After browsing the website you ha...
Xian, China bcc8Thursday August 7th Alison: We had a great sleep and then the kids and I headed up to have breakfast in the Executive Lounge before meeting Lily in the hotel foyer. We had met Lily in Shanghai near Wu Gardens and on chatting to her about where we were going she mentioned that she came from Xian. As she was so friendly and spoke good English, we asked whether she would like to guide us around Xian if we paid her train fare there and a retainer of about $50 per day. She explained that she wasn...
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China chalmersfamilyXIAN Llegamos a Xian, la ciudad de los guerreros de Terracota. Acá aprovechamos que había Sheraton y reservamos en el para seguir gozando de los privilegios que aprendimos a usar. Después de hacer Check In salimos de inmediato para el centro de la antigua ciudad de Xi'an, capital de 13 Dinastías del imperio Chino. Fuimos directo a la torre de la campana. Por hambre cometimos el error de entrar a McDonald's, ugh!!! Que feo!!!! Caminamos por las calles para encontrar los 3 mercados que tiene la...
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China rrositoDement!! C'est absolument dement ce que l'on a pu voir, entendre et sentir dans ce fabuleux pays, et on n'y est que depuis quelques jours!! Tout d'abord, on espere que chacun d'entre vous se portez bien. Nous, on va a merveille!! On a fini notre sejour a Beijing en beaute: visite de Palais d'Ete, du Temple du Ciel, etc, des classiques incontournables, mais pour cause. Avons pu passer tout pres des nouvelles installations olympiques et je vous jure que c'est du jamais vu. De fait, l'architectu...
Xi'an, China sergemichaelToday we docked in Changquin, the largest city in China, and went to the city zoo where we saw giant and red pandas, Siberian tigers and Tibetan bears. There are currently only 1,000 Giant Pandas alive in all of China and the government has moved most of them to preserves. Since pandas rarely procreate the government is doing all it can to ensure the safety of those that are still alive. Following the zoo we travel to the Stillwell Museum of the Flying Tigers and the living quarters of Genera...
Choncquing City, China shewolfWell, our dream of updating the travel blog while in China obviously didn't come true once we left Beijing. Given that most of our computers are made in China you would think they might have an internet cafe or two. Alas, no. For those who didn't check it out, I uploaded a bunch of photos taken with my iPhone to my blog at: http://bentusher.blogspot.com/. I haven't had a chance to upload all our regular photos to this blog yet, but there are some MUCH better shots taken with a real camera rea...
Xi'an, China teamollie
... just northwest from modern Xi'an. Before his death, Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the Terracotta Army and his mausoleum which is located in the modern city's suburb. The first stop was my hotel. I was delighted to find how nice it was. It wasn't an extravagant hotel, but ...
Xian, China exploreamerica... lights on and shouting down his mobile phone for 10 minutes. We were all woke up at 4.30 by the conductor, just enough time to brush teeth and make some tea before arriving in Xian. The walk from the train station to the hostel took about an hour but even though I was carrying my backpack I do like to see a city in the morning before it's awake. The hostel Dave was in was amazing. It's actually on the 12th floor of an office building but is all new and had ...
Xi'an, China simonmain1From Xian we took the train to Tianshui. We arrived so late to the train station that there where no seats (or beds) left. I then became worried since I didn't want to stand up for the 9 hours it should take. Knight Eric said not to worry and he arranged so that we could buy some beds from three ...
Xi'an, China svante... der Rest blieb in der kilometerlangen Schlange stehen... Wir auch. Aber aeh, wir muessen an Schalter 4 und standen ca. 1 Std. in Schlange 3. Naja, durch taktisches Geschick haben wir uns in Schlange 4 ruebergemogelt. Hat trotzdem zu lange gedauert, so dass wir uns irgendwann entschlossen haben einfach nach vorne zu marschieren und den Touristenbonus auszunutzen. Hat geklappt, wir wurden nicht niedergeboxt. Der Dame vom letzten Mal haben wir unsere Permit ...
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