Day 22-25 Xian, and the Terracotta Warriors


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February 8th 2016
Published: February 9th 2016
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When we first planned this trip, we had wanted to travel from Moscow, to Singapore overland. We had hoped that this leg from Beijing to Xian would be a 6hr trip on the ultra fast bullet train, but because of Chinese New Year and the movement of people out of Beijing we had to take a flight. We took the airport express train to Beijing capital airport, then the Chinese Eastern flight to Xian. I... Read Full Entry



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street foodstreet food
street food

brave enough at last to try some street food
Eating at workEating at work
Eating at work

Everybody in china seems to eat while working this is a parking warden
Hi tech ceilingHi tech ceiling
Hi tech ceiling

this is a high tech moving image on ceiling of shopping mall
Meal in Muslim restaurant of muttonMeal in Muslim restaurant of mutton
Meal in Muslim restaurant of mutton

We had pomegranate juice as they sold no alcohol. The 18 month old baby behind ali was using chopsticks!



9th February 2016
Shaanxi Museum of history

Quick question
Loving this people. You are travelling through many different countries, obviously not carrying cash for all the different places. Have you had any difficulty in getting local cash, terrible exchange rates etc? Or ended up with too much currency after leaving a country, can you tell us about that side of things? Also have you succeded in going more solo as you had hoped in China?
9th February 2016

Army
It looks so impressive when you see the army all together that would have been an interesting pottery class! ?

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