Day 12/ 12.Den (14.02.2008)

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HAPPY VALENTINE
-yuck - you sad people.. but we love ya anyway

NOT THE BEST TRIP SO FAR
After managing it to get a new ticket and refund for the wrong one, off we go to see the famous Terracotta warriors.
How do we get there, OK there are 3 options, green terracotta bus, bus 306 or taxi. Where did you say you saw the green bus... OK... lets go... wondering around desperately trying to see the bus, haggle hard with taxi drivers determined to not get ripped of (400Y don't think so, 200Y still no thanks) where the hell is the bus 306 ahhhhh it is on the other site of the station, actually nop it is exactly next to the refund office, never mind off we are on the bus 306... the round way is the quicker way right...

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS / TOMB OF QIN SHI HUANG
Terracotta warriors was reason why we come to Xian and to make it more interesting we thought why not visit the tomb as Lonely planet speaks of it so highly.
Tomb
well we be just honest, disappointing... maybe it is just us being naive but we kind of thought we will actually see to tomb itself...nop.. we walked all the way to the top and around... this place can be only worth seeing if is summer and not covered in leftovers of snow...
Terracotta warriors
Being honest again and saying it from our personal point of view... what is this big fuss about.. we can appreciate the archaeological value, however we left the site bit disappointed, we personally thought it would be bigger, it was in big warehouse, no style... but we saw it... the exit route was disturbing especially for dog lovers... skins of German Shepperd can be purchased everywhere, beggars, people trying to sell you all sort of junk... we are very glad we can just pretend we do not speak or understand English, this has proved to work on so many occasions when trying to avoid being ripped off. And we even managed to practice our russian, while we were getting carried by the crowd on to the bus going back to or hostel and singing Czech song, we got asked by Russian teacher in russion were we from. We had little chat in russion, czech and english and he even gave us a sweetie. We know we should not take sweets from strangers, but beggars can't be choosers...






STASTNEHO VALENTYNA - fuj - vy chudaci - ale mame Vas rady

NE ZROVNA VYDARENY VYLET( kolem do okola blize)
Po uspesnem zajisteni listku ( kolem do okola je to blize), jedem na Terakotove vojaky.
Jak tam, mame 3 moznosti; zeleny terakotovy minibus, autobus 306 nebo taxik... Ok... kde ze si to videla ten minibus... OK ... jdeme ... bloudily jsme jako ztracene ovce, a hledaly minibus, Ja Romca jsem se dohadovala s taxikarem, a na konec jsme sedeli na autobuse 306... kolem do okola je to blize

TERAKOTOVI VOJACI/ HROBKA QIN SHI HUANGA
Tohle byl duvod proc jsme do Xianu vubec jely; a abychom si to zpestrily tak jsme si naplanovaly vylet do hrobky jak doporucuje Lonely Planet.
Hrobka
Uprimne, byly jsme zklamane... mozna jsme naivni, kdyz jsme si myslely, ze uvidime hrobku ze vnitr, bohuzel ne, tak jsme si vylezly na kopecek a taky jsme ho obesly... tady to muze stat za to pouze v lete, kdyz je to tu rozkvetle a ne zbytky snehu...
Vojaci
Zase uprimne, a to rikame z osobniho pohledu... proc je kolem toho takove halo... dokazeme ocenit ze archeologicky je to cenne, ale my jsme byly zklamane. Ocekavaly jsme neco vetsiho a stylovejsiho, ale videly jsme to. Celkove nam to pripadlo premodernizovane. Jo vychod stal taky za to, predevsim pro milacky pejsku, na ceste k autobusu si muzete koupit kuzi z vlcaka. Zebraci a vsetesnici, kteri se snazi z nas dostat co nejvice penez. Zlata cestina, jaka je to vyhoda kdyz se tvarime ze nerozumime. A dokonce na ceste zpet jsme mely moznost si "pagavarit pa rusky", protoze kdyz jsme se nechaly davem tlacit do autobusu a pritom si zpivaly "Zivot je jen nahoda, jednou si dole ..." tak se k nam ozval jeden pan z Ruska a dokonce nam dal i bombon. My vime, ze nemame brat bombonky od cizich lidi, ale kdyz je hlad....

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