Gallery: Lots of stone terracotta warriors…could only be Xi’an!

Posted by lynette on July 18, 2010, at 3:32 pm | Category: China, Photos | Leave a comment
Now there are two travellers to add to the 8,000 warriors...
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Now there are two travellers to add to the 8,000 warriors…03-Feb-2010 08:58, Panasonic DMC-TZ6, 3.3, 4.1mm, 0.067 sec, ISO 400

Moving North-Easterly in China, we arrived in beautiful Xi’an. Surrounded by Ancient City Walls but with other travellers telling us there wasn’t a lot to do, would we like Xi’an? Would we see the Terracotta Army and what would we find to eat in the Muslim Quarter….? Continue reading Gallery: Lots of stone terracotta warriors…could only be Xi’an!…

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Gallery: Bustling Beijing and Hiking the Great Wall of China!

Posted by Steve on July 18, 2010, at 2:45 pm | Category: China, Photos | Leave a comment

Eddie, Trevor, Lynette and I about halfway between Jinshanling and Simatai.
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Eddie, Trevor, Lynette and I about halfway between Jinshanling and Simatai.08-Feb-2010 08:44, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 4.5, 28.0mm, 0.001 sec, ISO 100

Beijing is the capital of the most populous country in the world and unsurprisingly it is rather busy. With only a week to explore what seemed an impossibly long list of things to do, we were all set for another crazy week with little sleep. We were also looking forward to visiting the fabled Great Wall of China; a feat of human engineering we’d been told would not disappoint! So, last stop in China – did we find our favourite bit of food? Why is it the local’s get absolutely slaughtered at dinner? And why was our train from Chengdu unexpectedly the last train in China we’d ever take? Continue reading Gallery: Bustling Beijing and Hiking the Great Wall of China!…

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