ok so spent a full day in xianpeople think we are celebrities and they want to take our pics and hold their children in picswent to see the terra cotta armythere is so many terra cotta figures everywhere kinda takes away the appeallooks reminiscent of egypt in the clay pitsi had actually bought a box set of warriors at the great wall for 130 yuennow some guy is offering the same box for 20 so i bought a second one and got most of the group to buy one toojust came...

ok, so we are in xian nowmuslim bazaar OH MY GODmore on that laterso the tour is 16 agents, 15 women all from ontario, west, or quebecthe rest of the group is good to be with agents as they all have done a lot of travelling so are better than being with a normal groupbeijing is not what i expectedthey have bulldozed everything and rebuilt last 30 yearsthere are no authentic neighbourhoods and no houses, only high risesome nice architecture, very clean and modern ...