Xi'an and the Whore of the Orient
May 1st 2008 Leaving Beijing we caught the night train to Xi'an which was clean and punctual but the beds were very hard and being next the toilets we were awoken by the Chinese morning chorus of throat clearing - lovely! Xi'an is a busy modern city but it has the best preserved city walls in China which we were able to cycle around on a tandem - definitely a once in a lifetime experience and not to be repeat
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