the view from the bell tower

you can see how close we are to the road, in the distance of this picturem just to the right is the drum tower!

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November 12th 2007
Nee how! We all arrived in Xian after just a short flight of 1 hour 30 minutes. Much easier and quicker than the 13 hours on a train we could have done. We jumped staight into a taxi to find our hotel. The air seemed slightly better than in Beijing but we saw some pretty derelict stuff on the journey where people obviously lived. We got to our hotel which was actually in the same chain as the o ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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

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