Doing their duty

Walls and Warriors

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June 4th 2008
After a sketchy start, waiting for our bus by the side of the road, we had a good bus ride into Xian! When we got there we had some food at the "only Terracotta Warriors Bar in the world", really just a bar with big statues! The next morning we got up for the day Soph has been waiting for, the day to go to the Terracotta Warriors! After navigating the local buses we made it, the museum itself was ... read more

Asia » China

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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