Sheraton Xian Hotel

... you have to call them to make a booking (since they don't take CCs), but their operators spoke good English. I stayed at the Sheraton Xian (using my Starwood points).  It is nothing to write home about, but it was clean and free! Although it was ...

... must find his bride's shoes before he can take her away. It was quite the adrenaline rush this tradition!! We then went to the Sheraton Xi'an (this was no ordinary wedding in one respect - the groom was VERY well off) and indulged in an amazing lunch ...

... , nous accompagnant et nous guidant. Nous avons meme pris le dejeuner avec eux (en fait a trois endroits differents). Fascinant! Maintenant Xian. Le plus connu: l'armee de terre cuite. Il ne sert a rien de vous la decrire. Suffit de mentionnner que ...

... . Nos han ofrecido ya viaje para los Guerreros, pero decidimos más bien contratar el carro del hotel, solo son 50 Yuanes de diferencia y el carro del Sheraton esta mil veces mejor. Al día siguiente salimos para los guerreros, y llegamos a un complejo ...

... and palaces which were lovely to look at, but again in the heat we didn't spend too long there. When we got back to our hotel in Xian we rested for an hour or so and had a swim in the pool to cool ourselves down before meeting Lily again.   This ...

... mug. The flight to Xi'an was about 2 hours on good ol' Air China. Once we got to Xi'an we checked into the Sheraton, which again was beautiful and 5 stars. Dinner tonight was at the hotel - Italian night! Seriously, it was one of the best meals we ...

... home from the wall we found the same problem as the night before - none would stop or if they did wouldn't take us to the Sheraton (we had a map and the destination written in Chinese). After 15 minutes we got one that had just dropped and he was fine. We ...

... an air defense against the Japanese during WWII. Next, we flew to the ancient city of Xi'an and checked into a very nice Sheraton. The plan is to have Chinese food together tonight, as a group but Matthew and I cannot face another Chinese dinner so we ...

... the city as the background for the 20 RMB bill and that many Chinese landscape painters are from Guilin. I stayed at the Sheraton in Guilin. A nice Western hotel with good service. At $62 per night, it was one of the most expensive hotels in the area. ...

... count 178 cranes and am sure there were another 100 I missed.  There is no doubt China is growing.   Our hotel, the Sheraton Nanjing, stands 41 stories tall and was absolutely spectacular.  Just when I think our hotels can get no better, ...

... to our own devices. Finally our plane to Xian left, a tiny little one only holding about 20 passengers, but it got us safely to Xian Airport, from where we caught a taxi to the Sheraton Hotel and had dinner there before collapsing into bed, ...

... see the runway from the airplane.  We landed in Chengdu a little over an hour later and went straight to the Chengdu Sheraton hotel after meeting up with our tour guide, Shelley.  On our bus ride to the hotel, she explained to us background ...

After Beijing, we made a quick trip to Xi'an.  There's really only one reason people come here: the Terracotta Army.  Xi'an was the capital of China a  few thousand years ago.  Apparently, the first emperor, like many emperors, felt ...

  We were only in Xi'an for two nights, primarily to see the terracotta army, which is quite a spectacle.  In 1974 these Chinese farmers came across an army of life-sized terracotta generals, officers, warriors, and archers. ...

Xi'an is the jumping off point for the short drive to the Terra Cotta Warriors and so having a second day here after having been there was a little bit 'now what’.   We started the morning off with a calligraphy class at a local art museum ...

In 1974, a poor farmer in the countryside near Xi'an was digging a new well when he found fragments of clay pottery that appeared to be a soldier’s helmet. Not knowing at first what he’d found, and fearing he’d done something wrong for ...

Drive by blogging - internet sketchy here. HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! !  Emperors Summer Palace then off to the airport yesterday.  More to ...

I used my Grand Canyon analogy before.  It works for the dig site of the Terra Cotta Warriors.  To date, by sheer numbers, 'Site One’ is the more significant of what is currently four individual excavations.  It encompassess the ...