Orient Hotel Xi'an
No.393 Zhuque Road Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, China
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First Day in Xi'an
... watercolours, on paper. Chinese paintings are mostly either landscape, or animal, flower, some depict the Dynastys events and others religious. We all bought lovely hand painted prints, our names were written in Chinese and dated, the painter also gave us the meanings of our names.
Other handcrafts we were briefed on were the snuff bottles - painted inside, silk rug making, and leather made hand puppets.
We were also introduced to ...
Buddhas, Banks and An Immobile Army
... but nothing kicked off again. Although I did have the equally strange experience of meeting two Chinese architecture students (I didn’t envy their task of having to survey the local buildings, much more fun just to look and wander through them).
The peculiarities and chilled out atmosphere made it one of the finest stops I’ve been through on this trip, but I must move on. The final destination of this blog is Xi’an, right at the centre ...
Lions and Tigers and BEARS!! oh my
... to be active and fully involved otherwise get bored! Will make sure I update at least the photos of which there are many again!.
More on Nambo later and am finding out about the history of the other pandas and the other animals here some of which have been rescued from zoos and some found injured in the mountains like the birds. Vultures by the way I’ve always thought were magnificent and they are living side by side with a Golden ...
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... of stone tablets depicting famous writings from Chinese past (the guys with the long beards such as Confucius and what not). It's a little bit like going into a library where you can't read anything and some clever spark has decided that a book is't good enough and what you really need is to take a book and put it into handy stone tablet form. A kindle would have blown poor old Confucius's mind.
We popped into the 'Small Goose ...
Take chances, make mistakes, get messy
... there was more crayon between teeth and on the floor than on the white paper.
I was a bit surprised to see the lack of fine motor skills in these little guys. They had no problem grasping the crayons, but had trouble making marks on paper. The closest we got was hitting the crayon tip to the paper. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll try the big dot markers; they will probably be better at handling those except I’m worried about the markers getting ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Xi An Orient Hotel



