Xi'an Inns - Comments and Reviews

Day 5 (I think.. I get confused on what day it is) Well we wok up on the train and then off to find our way to the Terra Cotta Soldiers. Some guy was going to give us a ride to the site but we didn't feel very comfortable so we told him no. There are a lot of scams. We found a place to check our bags for the day and off to grab breakfast. Where ...

So today went from insanely boring to insanely crazy. First we got off the train and checked into the hotel. We were given an hour to clean up. After that we went to see the Terracotta Army. This time it was a lot duller to see than is was last time. It was impressive but less cool because I already had seen it. After that we went to a buffet lu...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya So it begins mate! So it begins! Thats all....now get back to work...quickly, the boss is looking! Ha Ha...quick update, I arrived safely, Luo Wei's birthday was a beauty...as usual I've been walking for endless hours each day...today (9th) I went to get my ticket west to Urumqi but ALL sleepers have been sold out fo...

The train between Luoyang and Xi'an was pretty uneventful: 4-1/2 hours of passing through what was mostly farmlands, the fall harvest of corn being brought in. It was interesting landscapes, gullies regularly punching their way through the sandy soils, and neat rows of corn and crops sprouting from seemingly impossible plots of land. One can onl...

Unfortunately we had ended up on the slow train, so we didn't reach Xi'an until early afternoon the following day. We had been told to expect hot, dry weather - "It never rains!" they said. As you can see from the photos, it poured the day we arrived and continued to rain on and off all the time we were there. Xi'an was the capital of China for ...

Well as crazy at it may sound it has already been over 3 years since I experienced my first breath of unsupervised foreign air and the beginning of the traveling circus that has now become my life! January 21, 2007 was the 3 year anniversary of the "Johnny Nomad Experiment." When I first set sail just over 3 years ago I had no plans for "the Nom...

Xi'an was actually not on my list of cities I wanted to go to. The terracotta warriors have never interested me much but of course when I ended up in Xi'an I did go see them. You can't go to Xi'an without seeing the army. Maybe it was my lack of interest or maybe it was the heat combines with tons of tourists but I wasn't that impressed. I did r...

Xi'an, capital of dynastic China for more than two millenni. Over a dozen dynasties rose and fell here and it is one of China's major tourist attractions. It is also a drab hole full of characterless offices and government buildings, expensive shopping centres and yet more banks. We walked into the centre of the city and were dismayed by the lac...