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By kirstent
August 9th 2008

The Flying Horse of Wuwei

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The Flying Horse of Wuwei

Well it was raining too hard on the night of the Opening ceremony so we didn't head down to the square. We just grabbed beers and watch the telecast in one of the hotel rooms. Luckily we had our Chinese Guide there as our interpretation of events didn't resemble the reality. It was a good night - very impressed with the drummers.... not so impressed with the puppets and the Australian's marching out outfit! We heard that someone was quite badly injured at the final rehearsal for the opening ... but couldn't really work out where that would have been (our [View Full Entry]

By BossManBing
July 9th 2008

China - Wuwei

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Scary statues
There's hundreds of these all over China

I stopped briefly at Wuwei to visit an Eastern Han tomb, dating from 100AD, where the region's most celbrated relic, a bornze Flying Horse was discovered. The symbol has since been adopted by the Chinese tourist board. The tomb is deep underground and very cool, compared to the 35+ degree heat outside, but all of the original statues and artifacts that were found in the tomb have been removed to be displayed in museums in larger cities. [View Full Entry]

By China 2006 2007
June 15th 2007

Bezoekjes in Wuwei en Lanzhou.

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Vraag het maar aan Berna. Als men voldoende mediteert in de Confuciustempel van Wuwei, overtreft men zichzelf en kan men zelfs gelijktijdig op drie plaatsen zijn!

Vrijdag 15 juni. Naar goede gewoonte waren we zeer vroeg in het busstation om de bus van 9u40 naar Wuwei te nemen. De bus van 8u50 stond er nog bijna leeg maar vertrekkensklaar zodat we maar probeerden om deze te nemen. De bediende aan de uitgang die de tickets controleerde, zei dat we op de volgende bus moesten wachten. We opperden dat we liever de tickets (die we uit voorzorg gisteren hadden gekocht) dan liever aan de balie zouden gaan wisselen. Uit ervaring wisten we dat dit geen probleem zou zijn indien er in deze bus nog plaatsen zouden zijn. [View Full Entry]

Hoog op de bergtop ziet men net nog een signaaltoren als onderdeel van het verdedigingssysteem tegen de barbaren.

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