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The Final Entry...

Posted by djwood | 27th July 2008

In my last entry, I told you all about our adventures in Beijing.... as it turned out, Xi'an was even more of an adventure! Wednesday night we boarded, yet another, overnight train, to go to Xi'an (pronounced Shee-ann). This time, the train was not nearly as nice as we were in the "hard sleeper" section, which meant six people to a room. However, it wasn't really a room, more like having a room minus one wall so anyone could come and go from "room" to "room". We made the best of it though, as several Chinese students came by to talk to us, which was a lot of fun.

In the morning, we arrived in Xi'an, found our new guide, Peter, and headed out for breakfast. Two things stood out to me about Xi'an - one was that the air is much cleaner here than in Beijing (although still much worse than back home) and the other is that this is a much more "historical" city, which I'll get into later. We checked into our hotel, which, if this were the US, we would have complained and stayed somew

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