Blogs from Xingping, Shaanxi, China, Asia

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xingping June 3rd 2014

2.6.14 CHANGWU: Distance: 84 Kms SubT. 1,775 Kms Bal 10,720 Kms Road Condition: Good Weather: blue sky, then thick smog, coal dust, high humidity, 34C Time in Saddle: 4.5 hrs Av Speed: av. 22 kph. Av Cadence. Rpm Elevation: e 1500 m up; 1000m down multiple times Calories burned : Thousands ...... Just discovered total distance is 12,650, NOT 12,150 I thought. So have added on 500 km to balance, damnit! Endeavour to upload photos with most blogs, but often internet is to weak to sustain upload. PLEASE NOTE NAME OF PLACE IN FORMAL BLOG TITLE MAY NOT RESEMBLE ANYTHING CLOSE TO THIS TOWN NAMED ABOVE. I DO NOT KNOW THE NAME OF THIS TOWN'S PROVINCE, AND THE SITE WONT OPEN UNLESS I PUT SOMETHING IN THE BOX. THIS WILL LIKELY BE THE FUTURE!!! NB. Apple ... read more

Tiananman, the Forbidden city & the Terracota Warriors

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xingping June 7th 2008

Tiananman Square

Stelen

We've been a bit slack at keeping our blog up to date. Seems like we have done loads since our last entry, we are now in Kunming, southern china. Our last few days have been spent in Xi'an, pronounced Shi-an, where we saw the terra cota warriors which were great. The warriors were built to protect Emporer Shi Huang Di in the afterlife, however upon the emporors death, the peasants rose up to defeat the ruling classes and subsequently ransacked the tombs. They were set alight which caused the cielings to colapse burrying the warriors until 1974 when they were rediscovered by some farmers. (Yes I know, a very brief history lesson, there is much more to it but I don't want to bore you) The scale of the tombs was suprising, the area they cover ... read more

Brief history of China

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...more history

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