Xian - Big Goose Pagoda
The bright lights and classical music were all in sync with the squirting fountains
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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]
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] Blog: The line up
Date: November 9th 2006
Arrived in Xian in the morning to find it was actually a little colder than Kunming - ah yes now that we're hitting the Northern hemisphere it's Winter right... Anyway - after acclimatising we jumped on the airport shuttle into the madness of central Xi An and hopped a public bus with our rucksacks and accumulation of crap. I was even offered a seat by an old man...! After some aimless wan ... read more
Date: November 9th 2006
Arrived in Xian in the morning to find it was actually a little colder than Kunming - ah yes now that we're hitting the Northern hemisphere it's Winter right... Anyway - after acclimatising we jumped on the airport shuttle into the madness of central Xi An and hopped a public bus with our rucksacks and accumulation of crap. I was even offered a seat by an old man...! After some aimless wan ... read more
