This is our last day in Xi'an so we leave the hotel this morning with a fairly easy agenda. It's not raining and it's pleasantly cool at the moment. Our cases will meet us at the airport later today when we fly to Beijing. Last night on the way home from dinner and the show we drove past the city wall and one of the city gates. This morning we get the opportunity to explore the wall a little bit and to go inside the gate. It's hard to believe that this wall is st...

It's raining cats and dogs today in Xi'an. Today we are going to see the Terra cotta warriors. We start with a workshop where they now make replicas and where we see a demonstration of how the statues were made over 2000 years ago. The clay soil here in this region is what has preserved these statues for all this time. The Terracotta warriors museum is huge and divided into 3 pits. We are standing in the line waiting for a shuttle to take us to the 1st pit, all ...

I must say that this is the most relaxed land tours we have done. Our departure time from Yangshuo was 9.30am and we drove through the country side back to Guilin. For some of the trip Autumn our local Guilin guide was talking about her life in China. She taught us how to count to 5 in Chinese. We then had a quiet hour or so drive to Guilin and the South China Sea Pearl Museum. Here we were greeted by a very enthusiastic Chinese lady with a well rehearsed spiel a...