Yongfeng Hotel Xi'an
No.86 South Section of Yanta North Road, Yanta District Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Rest and Recoup!
Ok so it is not raining this morning but it is due to this afternoon so we have taken that as a perfect excuse to do nothing.
We have been out and found a bookshop and thanks to Johns wonderful linguistic expertise, navigated our way to the English book section and bought a novel based on Sheffield.
We then spend an hour or two in a warren of underground shops and eateries ...
Muralleando
... ana siguiente, mi compañera se despertó un tanto activa y decidió ir a visitar el "Templo del Cielo", que viene siendo un parque enorme con un templo precioso y grande en medio, donde cientos y miles de chinos se reunen cada día para bailar, jugar y practicar yoga y ejercicios relajantes similares. Algunos se dedican a dar palmadas durante veinte o treinta minutos. Hay de todo, según pude comprobar por las fotos y videos que hizo Merel, ya que yo decidí que esa era una mañana ...
Day 11 Xi'an (Part 2)
... were built to defend against the enemy climbing the wall. Each rampart has a sentry building, which the soldiers could protect the entire wall without exposing themselves to the enemy. The distance between every two ramparts is just within the range of an arrow shot from either side, so that they could shoot anyone that wanted to attack the city, from the side. On the outer side of the Cty Wall, there are 5948 ...
Xi´an, caótica y maravillosa
... comenzamos por visitar las torres de la Campana y la del Tambor, edificaciones que se hacían sonar la primera, con el amanecer y la segunda con el atardecer, y que llevan en su sitio desde 1384, cuando el Emperador Zhu Yuanzhang la mando a construir, siendo uno de los edificios de madera mejor conservados de toda china.
Xi´an representa el modernismo intermedio de china, igual que en Beijing, aquí todo es nuevo o restaurado, ...
Point of Personal Growth
Those who know me know that I like to have things organized and to be efficient with my time. Some might even go so far as to say that I have control issues:). Days like yesterday force me to "just go with the flow" ---our group mantra!
Imagine my bliss when my mei-mei ( little sister) handed me a numbered list of what we were going to do yesterday. My first clue should have been when all of a sudden, it was time to go ...


