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Well my card reader died and getting photos uploaded is a challenge here in Xian. We finished our tour of Beijing with a visit to the Temple of Heaven and a quick flight over to Xian for a look at the Terra cotta Soilders.
First before I forget Beijing for a city of millions it could not be much cleaner than it is now at 9:00pm they were still polishing the tops of the garbage cans and picking up the smallest of trash on the roadways.I also took notice that in China the SIdewalks are marked with braille to help the sight challeged folk around, straight lines lead to dots which indacate a turn or obstruction ahead and these are everywhere.The parks are full of people singing,playing cards excersing and just people watching and being big blonde and generally dopey looking I get plenty of looks. The younger kids say 12 and under try their best English on us when ever they can and we get asked to have our picture taken with them, I would love that this novelty will never wear off but I am sure they will one day have their fill of us.
Just to warn you that if you ever do travel to Asia have as little carry on as possible as the Asians have a nck of filling every nook and cranny on a plane before you will ever set foot on the plane. We flew over to Xian pronounced "SHE-ANN" last night and went and saw the Terra Cotta Army. They have a huge building over them and there are three or four buildings of them. Its too bad that the Emperor did not use all this manpower to build something other than a place for him to lay and rot maybe he could have build a stadium like the Romans or something useful.Anyway I must get ready for a play tonight and this internet is expensive I will upload new photos as soon as I can. If you looked at my pictures early I did upload a few more,til next time and possibly from Shanghai Later.
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