The city walls and dumplings of Xi'an
July 15th 2009 The old city is surrounded by a massive city wall, 12m high and 15m wide at the top. Standing on the wall gives a pretty good view of the city, but to blow a few cobwebs away some of us hired bikes to cycle on the wall. It's 14km around the perimeter in a neat rectangle with pagodas at the corners and occasional displays of battering rams, catapults, wall-scaling ladders and the like. This was a w
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