Top of Pagoda

Small Wild Goose Pagoda

---

November 26th 2008
This is the Small Goose Pagoda which is outside the city walls of Xian in a small private Park it was built in 707AD by Budist Monks...you can climb to the top which is 13 storys high. It gives quite nice views of the south of the city, there is also a museum of the history of Xian which has some interesting information and models about how the city was planned and built. ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

---

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more