Terracota Warriors

Cycling on a Wall

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July 27th 2012
First day of sightseeing in Xi'an started with another weird Chinese breakfast of various dishes that seem to have been left over from the night before! God i miss bacon sooo much!! The first port of call was the Terracota Soldiers and Horses. I wanna just add how bloody hot it is in Shaanxi province this time of year, temperatures reached 38 degrees C during our visit! However it is a dry ... 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