 | Beautiful Xi'an
2008-07-19, Xi'an, China. By: SilverAsia | | So, I arrived safely, yay!
The worst part was the taxi ride to the station in Beijing. A 30 min ride turned into almost two hours! Luckily I planned for such an event, and still arrived with 45 min... |
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 | Xi'an and Beyond?
2008-03-16, Xi'an, China. By: mala | | Having made it to Xi'an, our most westerly destination, it's difficult not to consider the possibility of continuing on. An ancient capital, start of the famous Silk Road, one of the final "civilized"... |
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 | Worth a giggle...
2007-11-15, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | Today was a day of travel... well i made it that way anyway... got on the right bus but wrong direction which was a bit of a nightmare, so ended up first time around at some random industrial estate i... |
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 | Terracota Army
2007-11-14, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | Went to see the Army today was another shit day... misty, cloudy... couldn't see 10 yards in front of you! Nightmare!
The exhibition was exactly what i was expecting! You can't get very close to th... |
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 | First Hard Seat Mission...
2007-11-13, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | So i left Beijing in the early evening... heading to check out some Warriors and some nice weather (weather, not to be). Undertook my first Hard seat mission (just to explain, Hard Seat is the cheapes... |
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 | Xi'an
2007-10-15, Xi'an, China. By: lou | | Well i arrived in Xi'an early and got checked into the hotel. The overnite train was grand...the hard sleepers werent as bad as i thought all good craic!
Xi'an is a lovely wee city...i reminds me... |
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 | Getting Sentimental on you!
2007-10-06, Xi'an, China. By: dilleybug | | So i started reading Moby Dick. I am ashamed to say, i didin't finish it. Has anyone ever read Moby Dick? I found it terribly difficult, i made it about a third of the way through and he STILL hasn't ... |
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 | A Day in the Old Capital
2007-10-05, Xi'an, China. By: dilleybug | | Xi'an is south west of Beijing and is the old capital of China. I can't remember which emprorer moved the capital to Beijing.. but it was moved. I am enjoying Xi'an more than i thought i would. This h... |
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 | I have seen the 8th great wonder of the World
2007-07-03, Xi'an, China. By: shell | | So my alarm went off at 4.15am on Saturday morning, the start of my travelling experience. Unfortunately, I turned the alarm off and then slept for an hour longer. This gave me a ridicuous 45 minutes... |
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 | Tibet Train Traumas
2007-04-08, Xi'an, China. By: mashman | | Leaving Lhasa, I decided to head first for Xian, the ancient capital of China, and then to Chongqing where I would take a boat down the Yangtse river through The 3 Gorges for 2 days, before disembarki... |
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 | Terracota Warriors
2007-04-15, Xi'an, China. By: cmciver | | We made it, at 3am we got up and then at 4am we got off our train and fought our way through the armies of people and dodgy taxis to the YMCA Xian. Our home for the two nights we were in Xi'an.
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 | Terracotta Warriors to Vomiting Children
2006-03-21, Xi'an, China. By: kev_jen | | Well it has been almost a month since our last update. Sorry to get so far behind. In all honesty we have just been distracted by all there is to see in China and Tibet. Let's start by catching you... |
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 | 25 hours on a Chinese train
2006-02-07, Xi'an, China. By: gemandyoz | | Suffering, someone once told me, was what traveling was all about. If you hadn’t suffered in some way, then you weren’t a real traveler. The level of suffering is inverse to the quality of your backpa... |
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 | Xian
2005-09-20, Xi'an, China. By: L_nevraum | | Well, we had a good day today. Took in a lot of the sights of Xian today. It was a free day so we were on our own for all of the day. I must admit though, we are pretty much templed and pagodaed ou... |
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 | The 8th Wonder of the World
2005-06-18, Xi'an, China. By: incubus158 | | Today our first tourist attraction was the southgate wall. This wall was built 500 years ago to protect the entire city. 300,000 people worked to build it and completed it in 50 years for the Tong d... |
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 | Illin'
2004-02-15, Xi'an, China. By: ffej | | I've been sick now for about 10 days. What started as a cold and a stuffy head has exploded into full-on sinusitis. Hopefully you DON'T know what that is, but basically it means that my entire head ... |
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 | The terra-cotta warriors
2003-03-22, Xi'an, China. By: gard | | Going to Xi’an by train
Time went fast in Beijing and all of a sudden we had reached Saturday March 22nd. We had decided to take the train to get to our destination and we bought our train tickets ... |
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