Xian

In our final few hours in Xian before our flight Shanghai, our tour guide brought us to the city wall that surrounds the city. The Xi’an City Wall, represents one of the oldest, largest and best preserved Chinese city walls. It was built under the rule of the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a military defense system. It exhibits the “complete features of...

After our incredible tour of the Terracotta Army, it was time for lunch. To get to the Terracotta Army museum, we shuttled on a limo sized golf cart to entrance. When leaving, we walked back meandering our way through a bunch of shops and restaurants. We stopped into one of the shops, which was owned by one of the original 4 farmers who discovered the Terracotta Army...

After another fantastic breakfast buffet in our new hotel, our guide and driver picked us up in the morning and drove us 45 minutes to the Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose...

When we arrived at the Xian train station, we had a little trouble finding our new tour guide, but nothing a quick phone call couldn’t resolve. She got us into the van and on our way to the hotel. Unfortunately, our driver had decided to have a cigarette in his van before picking us up so it wreaked of smoke. Around an hour later, we arrived at the hotel and...