Qingming, first day
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Well, I guess it's about time to tell you all about our amazing weekend off.
All packed and ready to go!
Typical tourist, anyone?
We started off by taking the night train to Xi'an. The train was clean, the beds were comfortable and the kids in our coupé were well-behaved. 5 points out of 5 possible! We arrived at eight in the morning, ready for some intense sightseeing.
We started off by attempting to take the bus to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, a temple, which is the symbol of Xian. However, stupidly enoogh we didn't have the Chinese name of where we were going, so we ended up getting off way too early and having to take a taxi there. Well, no harm done, it only set us back about 10RMB. The Pagoda was surrounded by a beautiful Peony garden.
Buddhist temple
Lisa's new best friend.
After walking around the Pagoda for a couple of hours it was time for lunch. We got some dumplings accompanied with this drink, which was the only one the restaurant offered. It tasted kind of like flour and sugar dissolved in water. A quite peculiar taste...
After lunch we quickly moved on to the city wall. It was finished in 1644 A.D and is the world's largest city wall. As you can see from the picture it had started to rain by the time we got there. Don't worry though, we came prepared.
Awesome rain capes!
After walking around the wall we made our way to the hotel.
After a bit of rest we went out to get dinner. We got to order the food from an iPad. Pretty hih tech. Sadly, the food wasn't all that. After dinner we went back to the hotel to sleep. We had a big day ahead of us!
China,
IheartChina,
Life in China,
qingming,
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Annie B
09 Apr 2013 19:31
I love to hear all about your trip!!
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