OK, time for the next China installment! I don't know what I was expecting Xi'an to be like, but certainly not the hugely busy place it was. Unfortunately we arrived at the start of Golden Week, a Chinese holiday, so everyone was out of work and thus wandering around, making the pavements very congested. Olive (my tour leader), took us on an orientation walk, showing us the centre of inner Xi'an (inside the city wall), marked by a bell tower and a drum tower. From there we went to the Muslim quarter of Xi'an, where there were lots of bustling streets, full of shops and places selling an amazing range of food. After that it was up to us what we wanted to do. Some of us decided to go to the city wall, hire a
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