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Hey everyone, Like I told you before I'm now in Xi'an.
This afternoon my train back to shanghai leaves so my 3 days Xi'an are already almost over. Maybe some of you have already heart but I have been in the hospital for like 5 hours in the night of Friday to Saturday. Although I went to Xi'an because already had arranged everything and I was to late to delay it for one day. I will tell about that when I get back to Shanghai. Just to let you know. Now I'm fine. Still a little bit tired but already much much better. On Saturday afternoon 15:58 I took the train to Xi'an and I arrived at 09:00 on Sunday. I had a pick up from the hostel I would stay so I didn't have to look for that anymore.
That day I went to the bell tower, drum tower, Muslim quarter and the mosque. When I saw that I was just walking around when I met 2 Swedish guys. The would go to the terracotta warriors at that time and my plan was to go there on the next day but I already saw everything I wanted to see that day so I went with them to the terracotta warriors. I knew which but we had to take and stuff so that was also good. It took like 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there It was very nice but also pretty big. After that it was already pretty late so I went back to the hostel.
On Monday I went to the city wall and rented a bike and by that way I saw the whole wall. After that I went to the hot springs which was nice but if I would have had to pay to full price I would be disappointed. I had to take the same bus as for the terracotta warriors only I had to get off more early so that was nice. For me it is very nice I'm a Student because you get lots of discounts in china then.
When I got back in Xi'an I went to see the Xi'an museum and the history museum but they where both closed. The small wild- goose pagoda was also closed so I was very disappointed. I also went to the big wild- goose pagoda but I didn't go in. At 21:00 the fountain show in front of the big- goose pagoda started so I waited over there for like 3 hours to see that. I was worth waiting because it was very nice. It is a very big fountain and the fountains are moving on the sounds of the music. It also has a lot of light so all together it is beautiful.
Today I went back to the museums because I especially wanted to see the Xi'an museum. Bad luck because that one was still closed just like the small wild- goose pagoda. On my way to the history museum I saw the antic market so I went there for like 5 minutes. It was more like a rubbish market so not really interesting.
Luckily the history museum was open. I met there a group of 32 Belgium people. They where on a tour around china and they had a Belgium speaking guide. It was nice because I could understand so I followed them for a while so after all I got a lot of information. After that I came back to the hostel because I'm like a kind cranky because still a lot was closed. So when I'm finished with this I will just take a very nice cold shower because it is like 40 degrees over here so without doing anything you are sweating like hell. My train leaves at 17:00 and I will arrive at 06:27 in Shanghai.
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kevin belgium speaking guide huh? didn't know there was a language called belgium :P