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Strange things I have noticed so far...
... for the military who are all men.
Everywhere you go people are spitting. I use the word spitting lightly. More like horking on every corner and shooting snot out of their nose.
I witnessed my first child going to the washroom in a drain in the middle of a major underpass. Also under a certain age the pants are open so they can just squat and go.
Drivers are crazy. There ...
Beijing to Xi'an
We woke up early and had breakfast at 5:30 to leave for our flight for Xi'an. It was a massive Airbus plane that was absolutely packed with people. I thought it would be a small puddle-jumper, but we have to keep in mind the scale of these cities. Beijing has 22 million people and Xi’an, a small city by Chinese standards, has 6 million people. While I would imagine a large portion of the population have never flown, the scale is ...
No Place Like Home
... did. However, living here is quite different from how I lived in America. And I believe that since I grew up in a different country, I am more accustomed to that lifestyle. I enjoy traveling and expanding my knowledge, but I think two months is a bit to long for me if the lifestyle is different. Other than that I enjoyed myself, and I'm extremely happy and thankful that I had the chance to come.
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The Warrior City
... but no monks are living there now. We saw the monks graveyard and there was a huge bell and drum. The grounds were very shady and had a peaceful feel to them. Inside the monks temple there is now a calligraphy shop where they wrote our names for us in Chinese. This surprisingly was for free. After we left the pagoda we went to the Xian museum. The most impressive artefacts were the terracotta soldiers ...
Xian
... amazing. i couldnt get my head around the fact that they had been built over 2000 years ago and were only found in 1974 and still more to be found.
next day phil manu and alex got a haircut, and we witnessed a child, i would say about 4 or 5 pull his trousers down in the staright and have a big fat dump!! so when u see poo in the streets in china, its not dog poo its human poo.lovely.
We got another sleeper train that night. We have never ...
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