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THINGS TO DO
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Gearing up for Chinese New Year
(Feb 14 '07)
So we have now been in Xi'an for 4 days now and are liking the city more and more each day. We can even say that we are finding our way around much better than the first day and have an idea where we ...
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Cycling on the Xi'an City Wall
(Aug 06 '07)
"Cycling the Xi'an City Wall is a great way to spend an evening."
Today's highlight was a leisurely late afternoon cycle on the Xi'an city wall; a distance of 13.74km. The wall, an ancient fortification ...
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Xi'an
(Apr 17 '07)
Our next stop on our China tour was the historical city of Xi'an in central China. The city used to be an ancient capital of the empire and stands at the end of the silk road, that lead all the way ...
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We arrived early in Xi'an on the overnight train from Pingyao. We haggled a bit with the touts at the station and blagged a double ensuite room at a hostel for ...
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Xi'an and the Terracotta Army
(Mar 21 '07)
Our flight into Xi'an was easy enough, arriving about 30 minutes late. It was quite late in the evening when we got to our hostel, so the only thing we did on our first night was to book a tour for ...
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Army of the Terracotta Warriors
(Apr 21 '07)
Even with the help of our host Wei and the previous efforts of our Korean friend, we weren't able to secure tickets for a sleeper car on the train to Xi'an. Horrified by the thought of sitting for 30 ...
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Spitting & Soldiers
(Aug 09 '07)
We took an overnight train from Pingyao to Xi'an which was hardly the best nights sleep as spitting seems to be a national pastime here. If spitting was an Olympic event in Beijing next year the ...
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Another early morning, which I have to say, was my fault as we had arranged with our new Israeli friend to meet for breakfast at 0800. ...
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Xi'an: Days 4 & 5
(Sep 22 '07)
"Called "The Land of Kings and Flowers", Xian was home to eleven of China's great dynasties spanning 4000 years..."
"Terracotta Warrior Territory"
(Jul 16 '07)
"It's crazy to think that they lay there undiscovered for over 2,000 years...some more recent burials of family members had been done in the walls of the pits without the people digging even knowing what was underneath!"
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