Xi'an Travel Blogs - Page 5

Photos and stories from my travels around the world.

From Shanghai we caught a lunch time flight to the original capital of China, Xian, home of the Terracotta Warriors. A highlight of any trip to China is the Terracotta Warrior Museum . The Terracotta Army was discovered in March 1974 by a local farmer drilling a water well to the east of Mount Lis…

Although our train journey was good we were still a little bit frayed at having been awake at 6 O'clock in the morning. Us unemployed folk don't like waking up in the dark. We decided that we'd take it easy first day and chill out do a bit of catching up, laundry at the hostel, stroll around the ne…

As the "Bible" has been a little of a let down lately concerning prices and accomodation I decided to change my tactics and go with the touts waiting outside the train station. Well the first tout brought me to the recommended place in the Lonely Planet, so far for not using the "Bible"... I booke…

When we arrived at Bob's guesthouse we found that we were in the room next door to our friends Becky and Matt.  The hostel was run by friendly staff and was quiet and relaxing.  Our first day was spent in the Muslim quarter where we tried lots of street food snacks and visited the …

Starting in Beijing and going to the south until...Who knows!!

Beijing- Xi'an-Tibet- Shanghai- Sanya- Hong Kong

After we dropped off my bag, we headed to a nearby, very crowded restaurant.  Tom and Chen picked out foods they thought I would like.  We ended up with sweet and sour pork, green beans and garlic, and a vegetable Tom called "purple" that looked suspiciously like eggplant. We then caught…

spent a couple of days in Shangahi before we headed to Xi'An to see the terracotta warriors...all during holiday week....!!!

Blog for my around the world trip, beginning September 24th and ending in May.

Royal Gardens & Huaqing Palace The royal gardens and hot springs were next to the Warriors so we stopped to walk around the garden. There are a few buildings that the emperors used as a place to relax and getaway. The Chinese used the hot springs and created indoor bathhouses 3000 years ago. I…

Imagine, if you will, row after row of terracotta warrior statues, over 6000 of them, with possibly many more still in the ground. Even more impressive, they were made two millennia ago. And the most impressive. . . each of them has a different face, both in features and expression; no mass product…

Rondreis in China & Tibet

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  Train arrive at 20:14 http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/index.htm   Train# Dep Arr From To Hard sleeper Soft sleeper Soft seat 1486 16:31 02:45 Chengdu Taiyuan $11 $16 $9 1676 1673 14:32 23:18 …