Xi'an
Day 4...
Travel Expenses
*** Total: 195RMB ***
Entry to Drum Tower and Bell Tower: 30RMB
Entry to Great Mosque: 25RMB
Entry to Shaanxi History Museum: 35RMB
Entry to Giant Wild Goose Pagoda: 25RMB
Accomodation @ Ludao International Youth Hostel: 45RMB
Local Transport, Food and Others: 35RMB
Attractions Information
Xi'an Bell Tower (by Travel China Guide)
Xi'an Drum Tower (by Travel China Guide)
Xi'an Great Mosque (by Travel China Guide)
Xi'an Muslim Quarter (by Travel China Guide)
Shaanxi History Museum (by Travel China Guide)
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda (by Travel China Guide)
Finally arriving at Xi'an after 18 hours of train ride from Chengdu
Xi'an Bell Tower
Views of Xi'an streets from Bell Tower
Dance and music performance inside Bell Tower
Stage with beautiful set of musical bells
Xi'an Drum Tower
Giant drum!
These drums were each to be used during different weathers/seasons
This for example was to be used when there was heavy snow
There was also drum performance inside Drum Tower
You can also find many displays of Chinese culture
View of Bell Tower from Drum Tower
Interesting looking market place just below Drum tower
Welcome to Xi'an Muslim Quarter
Entrance of Great Mosque of Xi'an
Small pavillion inside mosque
Arabic calligraphy inside mosque
Silent
Old faithfuls relaxing away
Prayer hall
Looking thru into the prayer hall
Unique decoration
One of the food stalls in Xi'an Muslim Quarter
Barbecue flour or something
A popular Muslim food, beef meat and soup with small bread pieces to soap up the delicous taste
South gate of Xi'an City Walls
Views of Xi'an City Walls
Shaanxi History Museum with fantastic collections of Chinese histories and ancient artefacts
Strangely looking masks
Ancient musical bells
Few statues from the famous Terracotta Warriors
Cast for ancient coins
Statues of alien looking people
Beautiful piece of artefact
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda as seen from water fountains
It was home to famous Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and where he did translation of sutras he had gotten from India
Close-up of Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Temples within complex
Elephant statue, influence from India?
Beautiful ceiling inside one of the temples
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda has actually tilted slightly due to ground softening
Statues depicting a typical scene of Sichuan Opera
Many interesting faces of Sichuan Opera
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda at night
Here comes the fountains!
Beautiful!
~ View Picture on Flickr ~
Night view of Xi'an City Walls
Day 5...
Travel Expenses
*** Total: 245RMB ***
Bus 306 to Terracotta Warriors and back: 7RMB + 7RMB
Entry to Terracotta Warriors: 90RMB
Entry to Xi'an City Walls: 40RMB
Rental of Bike @ Xi'an City Walls: 20RMB for 1.5hrs
Local Transport, Food and Others: 35RMB
Overnight Train from Xi'an to Lanzhou: 46RMB
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~ Train Code: 1043
~ Type: Hardseat (Non-Aircon)
~ Departure: 2125
~ Arrival: 0530
~ Travel Time: 08Hrs 05Mins (676km)
*Overland Distance Covered So Far: 1,842km
A trip to Xi'an is definitely not complete without a visit to the marvelous Terracotta Warriors constructed by First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang
Entrance of pit 1, largest excavation pit out of current existing 3 pits
Nearly 1,000 of an estimated 6,000 figures of armored and unarmored infantrymen, bowmen, crossbowmen, archers, and charioteers have been unearthed in pit 1
Close up of some of the warriors
Scale of it is really amazing, considering this is only 1 pit!
It is really amazing that each warriors are uniquely different from one another
More waiting to be evacuated and pieced together
Warriors and horses (once part of a chariot) in one of the other pits
Closeup of one of the warriors inside the museum
Many different faces of the warriors, each of them unique
A large scale-model of bronze carriage was also unearthed
A bronze sword which still glitters in metallic luster without being rusty, though buried underground for over 2,000 years
There are also many other displays including these canteens
Go early in the morning to avoid these crowds!
Silk Road monument, "offically" marking start of Silk Road
Some buses in Xi'an still operating using overhead electrical lines
One of the entrances of Xi'an City Walls
Views on top of the walls
Overlooking some ancient-styled building
Interesting looking rubbish bin
Overlooking busy Xi'an train station
You can rent a bicycle to cycle around the walls
But of cos, there are riskshaws for the lazys haha
Xi'an City Walls and its moat
Endless skyscrapers in a typical Chinese city now
Drum Tower at night
And of cos also Bell Tower
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