Weilong Hotel Xianyang
No.1 Weiyang West Road Xianyang, Shanxi, 712000, China
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On the Clouds
... walk over a glass floor over the pits there were beautifull mini warriors and all sorts of animals!! this place was so quiet and well woth the effort of getting on the right bus but going the wrong way!! woops we were the talk of the bus it was prety funny.1000s of intanct little people, you could see them slowly being excivated and we also say a crazy film like the film in jurasic park!! Happy Birthday Gen meal at hot pot place where a girl had writen the menu ...
Giant Panda Conservation??Really???!!
The 4 weeks have been completed in China and the opportunity to see the pandas and the other animals close up is still such a privilege. The red pandas were definitely my favourites but they are all such fantastic creatures and it is such a shame and heartbreak to see them in the living conditions they were kept in.
Although initially there was a fear that boredom would set in and did in the first few days with the lack of activity and information I'm so glad I had this much ...
Pandering to the Pandas!!
Last feeding day with the Red Pandas, or Cat Pandas as I like to call them, today so last time actually in the enclosure with them. After a week and a half they now know me as the Sacred Bringer of Food and Treats as I walk towards them with their bamboo and they climb over the top of the gate and peer out making that brilliant chittering noise.
In the wild hope that today I have raisins in my pocket 2 of the braver ones come to the fence and ...
Discovering China???
... and you just can't grasp the atmosphere of the place. There is one argument that most cities are like that in their touristic nature but Xi'an isn't touristic in the slightest ie barely any foreigners so this is all for the locals - there is nothing palpable to get that sense of who these people are. Barring the fact that they stare and gawk at foreigners (not in a friendly way), human excrement is on the streets and by the trees, and they have no sense of personal space or ...
Terracotta Army
... a fierce haggling war. 50¥ . Mark needs to learn to haggle.
We grab our bus back to Xian and start wandering. We walked around the old city and out to the Temple of the Immortals. The little Market place nearby was also a treat.
Back into the city and we grabbed some dinner. It was a traditional Shaanxi meal in Xian's oldest restaurant. The meal was sub par. A broth of meat and noodles and bread thrown together.
We headed to the ...



