Xindu Hotel
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Sweet & sour pork with rainbow sprinkles
... cool, all the fountains and lights went in time to classical music they were playing over the loud speakers.
After the fountain show we headed back to the bar at the hostel where they had live music playing. The bar is quite popular with local chinese. There were a group of chinese opposite us who must have been celebrating a birthday. When they drink they don't mess around. In the space of ...
We hebben ze gevonden!
... piramide! De piramides in China zijn namelijk niet zoals wij het ons zouden voorstellen bij het woord 'piramide'. Het zijn inderdaad piramides (vierkant onder, driehoekige vorm), maar de bovenkant is redelijk vlak en vanaf een afstand ziet het eruit alsof het grote heuvels zijn. Deze verschijningen waren inderdaad graftombes voor de oude keizers, maar later door de Chinese overheid onherkenbaar gemaakt. Dit mysterie was voor ons een reden om het op te zoeken!
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The Arrival
We have arrived! We had a few "bumps" in our road (left phones, lost boarding passes, etc.) but nothing we were not able to take care of quickly and satisfactorily. Our first night in Beijing was spent at a 5-star hotel. We all wished we had longer to enjoy the luxurious surroundings, but Xi'an and our host families beckoned. A trek through ...
Woo! Check us out!
... with a tour group we can do whatever we bloody well please thank you very much! We head towards the movie theatre because why not? We can do what we like! The movie is quite good but is akin to those films you get in Disney World where you stand in a 360 degree room and there are about 12 screens showing the picture in surround view. After watching it I already know about 50 billion times more about the Terracotta Warriors than I did before, so it served ...
Towers and Walls
... of Chu (with their new King Huai II) in rebelling against the last Qin Emperor, Qin Er Shi. In 206 BC King Huai II stated that whoever got to Guanzhong (which contained the Qin capital, Xianyang) first would become King of Guanzhong. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang raced there, but Liu arrived first. The last Qin ruler, King Ziying surrendered to Liu Bang who was granted the title promised. However, Xiang Yu disagreed and claimed the title Hegemon King of Western Chu and split ...