Xi'an Travel Blogs - Page 8

When we had reserved the tour, we were told that pick-up would be between 9-9:30.  So as we were going down to breakfast at 8:35, I was surprised to hear my phone ring.  It was our tourguide telling us that she was downstairs.  Well, we'd paid for breakfast and we were getting breakf…

Round trip in China, including a week in Tibet. City's visited: Beijing, Xian, Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse, Chengdu, Lijiang, Dali, Kunming, Yangshuo, Hong Kong.

It started in Beijing. From there by train to Xian. From there by plane to Chengdu and furter down to Lijiang. Then by bus to Dali and later Kunming. From Kunming we took the nighttrain to Guilin where a bus was waiting to take us to Yangshuo. From there to Guangzhou where we took the boot to HongKong. And that al in one day, uhum, 3½ weeks I mean :)

Once we arrived in Xi'an we booked a flight to Chengdu. Then we got on the airport shuttle to get into town.  We easily found the hostel we wanted and got a room.  It was decent for one night and the staff was pretty helpful.  After getting settled, we tried to go to the Terracot…

Xi'an seems like the typical chinese metropolitan without any Olympic makeup.  it is noisy, crowded and dirty. walking a 100 meters in  the muslim quarter will give you 5 butcher shops and 20 different smells, which include things like roasted wallnuts from a vendor, sesame oil from a ses…

Inga and I arrived in Xi’an around 8pm and our made our way to our hostel.  Luckily we’d been recommended the Shuyuan by Simon and BBC , who’d stayed there during Golden Week, so we knew it would be clean!  It was also a convenient location just inside the South gate of the city wal…

Woke up at 6:30 when the lights were turned on!  Arrived in Xi'an at 7:00 and met our guide, Maggie, on the bus that took us to the hotel.  Hotel was actually very nice.  I had a room to myself, so I spread all my stuff out and just relaxed.  Had a shower and changed into f…

Another sleeper train, over to Xi'an, home of the Terracotta Army.Once again we ran into difficulties with finding our hostel. We were expecting a pick up from the station, and trusting this, did not have the number or address of the hostel on us. Unfortunatly we came out of a different exit to the…

De reis van 2008. Van het gesloten Noord-Korea naar China (inclusief eclips), Tibet en Nepal!

reis door China van januari-april 2000

This is an itinerary of our trip around the world and does not include any journal entries.

Today was going to be a big day in Xian. We decided to go down town and checkout a few of the sights.  Xian has an old city part that is completely walled in. This is where most of the historical areas are. We first went to the main square and checked out both the bell tower and drum towe…

The plane journey from Chongqing was only an hour, and when we landed it was already raining. Xian is said to be in the entral of China, and China is said to be shaped like a turkey, so we were in the heart of China. We met our tour guide, Susan who was friendly and nice and travelled almost over a…

I'm sorry that i've discovered this site only now, so it's difficult create a log book of my past travels. Here i wanna show some amazing places and some funny shots of the world i've been before alone and with my friends. Some of them met around the world. Enjoy!

I have been teaching in China for 2 months, then I will spend 2 weeks traveling. Here will hold the pictures.