beautiful Terracotta Warrior

Terracotta Army with added benefit of fantastic street food

December 6th 2011
'We are not staying here for long' I said to Tomek when we arrived at Xi'an train station. The minute we exited the station and I saw big city buildings and crowds of people I did not like it at all. It was almost like a shock to me after beautiful and peaceful Pingyao. We got picked up by our hostel – Han Tang Inn – and we went straight for breakfast. We were starving and I rea ... read more

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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

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Beata and Tomek

Our RTW lasted 583 days = 1 year, 7 months, 5 days. That means 83 weeks/13,992 hours/839,520 minutes/50,371,200 seconds of LIVING THE DREAM We love to travel. It is as simple as that ;-) 30.09.2011 we embarked on the trip of our lives ;-) in 2007 we got inspired by our friends (Monique and Nigel who constantly travel and have been on the RTW) and since then we have been thinking about it all the time. We finally set up a date, started to save up and focused only on preparation ;-) We could not just stay at home all the time so we traveled a bit in between but ... full info

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