We made it to xi-an china and saw the emporers tomb with the thousands of warriors, horses and carriages in a great room and it blows your mind! every face, character, horse is different and all the artisans worked 36 years in the making and then were killed as no one was to know any of them or how or when they were made. china is not what you would imagine. they have freeways, cars, high rise buildings, yet you still see the chinaman in his round hat hoeing his little plot of land. it's got the very old customs and the very new mentalities. amazing. then we flew to Chengdu, the home of the Panda's and bamboo forests, but it rained constantly so were unable to see them. and we were there just overnite. we
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