Traveling through China's History

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June 25th 2006

Published: June 26th 2006

Hi all This week was dedicated to 2 things. The first was making our way from Kashgar in the south-west of china to Beijing in the north- east a total of over 5000 km! The second thing was learning about the history of China. Went to 2 good museums in Urumqi and Xian and we now know all the Chinese dynasties from 500BC to the last emperor in the 20th century by heart. we saw archeologi... Read Full Entry

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yaron and hagit

2012 - New Zealand, Vanuatu, Thailand 2011 - 2 and a half weeks in the Caribbean. not relaxing considering the children are 1 and 4. but very enjoyable 2010 - Ariel was born and all four of us took Hagit’s maternity leave for 2 months of travel in Europe 2009 - 3 of us traveling in different groups in Austria, Norway, England and a few business trips around the world 2008 - join us on an adventure with our 1 year-old baby to Turkey 2006 - On the road again this time with my lovely wife. if you are reading this then you are traveling with us on ou... full info

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Xian

Xian is a large city that manages to keep its old small town feeling combining the old with the ulta-new. this is the view from our hotel. the main square with the "bell-tower" in the middle

Xian

same place - diffrent hour

Xian - Terra Cotta Warriors

the main tourist attraction in Xian is the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses. these are life sized clay statues of soldiers, each diffrent dating from 200BC. they were found only in 1974. the site is huge as you can see (each figure is 1.8-2m high)

Xian - Terra Cotta Warriors

as you can see each figure is diffrent. about 6000 statues were found.

Xian - Terra Cotta Warriors

they were originaly housed in these trenches that were covered in a wood roof. the roof colapsed and the statues were barried and forgoten

Xian - Terra Cotta Warriors

a picture with us to prove we were there

Urumqi - museum

the terra-cotta warriors are the biggest of ther kind but in the museums we visited there were other kinds from diffrent times of chinese history

Xian - museum

one more example we liked

the food this week

in Xian we ate steemed dumplings with beef and a pita-bread stuffed with grilled beef

the food this week

in this stand we bought a sweet rice "BAKLAWA" with sweet walnut past inside covered with rose-water

the food this week

this stand was similar but the sweet-rice here was steamed and covered with candy and penuts

the food this week

Hagit enjoying after saying "AL HA'HAIM VE-AL HA'MAVET" (we say it every time we eat something new :) )

the food this week

this is beef and vegetable soup Yaron eat. the colors are not a mistake - the beef was purpul in the original

19th July 2006

Marg_London_uk
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Great Blos
Great blog, we are just about to leave for China (Fri 21/7/06) and have planned a 2 night stopover at Pingyao (from Beijing enroute to Xian); given we have a 13 year old son we think we will now definitely check out the Martial Arts museum (sounded a bit dull until we saw your photos) and the food stalls (felt a bit nervous). The info re purchasing supplies at supermarkets before 'boarding a train ' was invaluable. Many thanks!

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