The Silk Road Trip. If you go to the map link you can see the distance that we traveled. I’m not going to cover everything we did everyday only a few parts of the day. Day 1 & 2 (August 18-19, 2012): The first day started with a 12 hour train ride to Xi’an. The train ride was interesting because each cubicle had six beds. When we arrived in Xi’an we went straight to the Terra Cotta Warriors Museum. There I met the guy who DISCOVERED the Terra Cotta Warriors and I took a picture with him. It was exciting! What were the Terra Cotta Warriors? : The Army of the Terracotta warriors was discovered in 1974 by peasants digging a well. The awesome ranks of life-sized pottery figures, modeled from yellow clay, were made to
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