We wanted to get an early start this morning so we could walk along the top of the city wall before it got too hot. The forecast was for 90* today! We had a small breakfast at our guesthouse cafe, then headed right out to walk to one of the main gates with stairs up the wall. First we had to buy our "Pingyao Pass" which would allow us to go up on the wall, as well as visit several other attractions in Pingyao. We even got a senior discount for being over 60...

Sunday morning was another early morning for us, we left our hotel in Xi'an at 6:45 for the one hour drive to the airport. Once again, we were plenty early, so we found a small cafe serving breakfast. The menu was definintely Chinese, we ordered a big bowl of noodle soup to share. Coffee, too of course. The Xi'an airport is very nice--new, clean and shiny bright! We checked in, and before they gave us our boarding passes they asked us to accompany them to ...