Xi'an Days Inn & City Wall

Xi'an the warriors - beyond expectations

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April 9th 2014
Geo: 34.2712, 108.991Just saying, lucky to be here blogging tonight! I believe with every fibre of my Chinese heart that I am here because my soup had three NOT four mini wontons in it! (For the non-Chinese literate...four is the number of "death".....no fourth floor indicated in the lifts in hotels...three wontons much better than four!)Anyway, it was 9.10 pm and the Tang Dynasty sh ... 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