Unfortunately there was no yak for breakfast today instead we had to make do with egg on toast. Suffiently fueled with made our way to Jiuzhaigou scenic park. The park is around 60k of lakes, waterfalls and rivers. The coloured lakes were mesmerising, it’s hard to convey how clear the water is, let’s say ’super’ [...]
Jiuzhaigou Scenic Park
October 20th, 2009 by adminLeaving Xi’an via Big Goose Pagoda
October 20th, 2009 by adminToday we took a trip to Big Goose Pagoda. It’s a beautiful place over a thousand years old and was saved from distruction during the ‘Cultural Revolution’ by the resident monk who set himself on fire to scare the red guards and save the building.
After the Pagoda we made our way to the airport to [...]
Terricotta Army Day
October 19th, 2009 by adminWe started this morning with some suprise excerise. We took a trip to see Xi’an’s city wall and it turns out that the best way to see it is on bicycle. We pedaled around on our wobbly bikes taking in the sites of the wall and the city. We saw it as a challange to [...]
Summer Palace & the journey to Xi’an
October 17th, 2009 by adminWe landed in Xian this evening and made the trip to the city with our new guide Neu(sp.). During the trip he enthralled and amazed us with his life story: during the start of Mao communist rule of China (from 1949 to 1980) he was in the Red Army, he was 16 in 1966 and [...]
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