Hua Ching and Li Shan

Trip Start Jul 24, 2005
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Trip End Aug 20, 2005


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Friday, July 29, 2005

We took the 306 bus halfway back to the Terracotta Warriors to have a look at the Hua Qing Hot Springs and Li Shan. The best part was walking around the town when we arrived. We found a wonderful market street where we bought fresh fruit, various delicious bread concoctions made on the spot and some Muslim-style cakes much better than the ones we got in Xi'an's Muslim area.

The Hot Springs themselves were, I thought, barely worth the expensive entrance ticket, but it was pleasant enough and the ancient baths were interesting. To actually touch the hot spring water cost an extra fifty cents, which seemed a bit mean. In the afternoon we took a cable car most of the way up Li Shan and then climbed up the rest of the way to a pagoda at the top.

We took a mini-bus back to town, which was a bit of a mistake as it took the back roads rather than the expressway, which made the trip home about an hour (for 30 km.) In the evening we went to a little restaurant around the corner and met up with a West Indian couple, who joined us for dinner. Yoong was not very successful in ordering, as the man was vegetarian and two of the four dishes turned out to be meat-based. The food was rather oily, though tasty, but the company was good. Yoong insisted on going for a bowl of pull-noodles afterwards, as it was much more to her taste.

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