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China, Xi'an: Coffee Breaks with Terracotta Warriors
(May 24 '07)
"At times the crazy man was yelling, pointing his finger wildly and spitting on us as he spoke"
With a population of over 6 and a half million and a history spanning 2000 years, Xi'an was not a city easy ...
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Ancient Warriors of Xi'an
(Mar 17 '07)
"we left with an appreciation that the Chinese civilization is indeed an old civilization with a deep, rich and diverse history."
Terracotta Warriors and more
(Nov 14 '05)
Xi'an is mostly known for its proximity to the famed Terracotta Warriors, and is also quite a pleasant little city. We arrived in the late afternoon and had a poke around, checking out the Bell Tower ...
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Xian 西安
Xian is located at Shaanxi province. How much do you know about Xian?
For many know Xian is a place you can see Army of Terracotta ...
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Arrived in Xi'an on Saturday night at 9pm to rain and no one to pick us up. A suspect hawker took us to the hostel, making us walk the whole kilometre in the rain (hee hee). ...
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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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We got up on our last day in Beijing as we had booked an excursion to the Mutanyu section of the great wall. There was the usual spitting chorus to wake up to in the hotel. So i ...
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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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Recent Blogs for Xi'an
Next stop...Xian
Hello I seen and done alot since i last wrote. I didn't have time to write. Imagine me not even having time able to talk. hmmm
Beijing was very ...
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Wom ba dan
(Feb 20 '08)
Didn't think I was going to have to resort to using MySpace for my travel blog, alas realtravel appears to have been blocked in China (a country where they don't want their people to read anything ...
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Thousands of stone faces
(Nov 12 '07)
Arrived in Xi'an after another epic sleeper train, the taxi took us to the wrong hostel first but we did eventually find it. The good thing about the sleeper trains is you arrive in the morning so you ...
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