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Terracotta Warriors

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August 28th 2006
Xi'an is a beuatiful city of 5M people, but also with quite a bad pollution problem. We stayed at the Bell Tower hostel which is right in the centre beside the old bell tower and is a great little place. They are reconstructing alot of the city. There are fabulous traditional buildings everywhere-built in pagoda style with the tiered rooves. The city walls have been rebuilt-their modern form dat ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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