Xian

Today, after a long 17 hour train ride, we dragged ourselves off the train and onto a bus, where we went to a hotel for a breakfast full of rice, noodle dishes, and to our great surprise, bacon! After that we went to see the Terracotta Warriors. We were shown an educational movie on their construction, and then were finally allowed to go see the warriors. The site was phenomenal! Each soldiers face was unique, possibly crafted after the ones in the emperor’s army. There were 3 sites, each full of these soldiers. There was also tons of people trying to sell these wonderful little soldier statues, which although none of us really wanted them in the first place, most of us ended up buying them because we bartered them down to such a good price just by trying to get away from them! Following this, we had lunch, and went for a bike ride along the top of the Xian wall, some of us using double bikes. Next we had a marvelous dumpling dinner with 18 different types of dumplings. They ranged from chicken, to chicken with vegetable, to pork, pork with vegetable, to fish, walnut and peanut. I think it was an enjoyable meal for all of us. Finally we went back to the train station to get on another long overnight 12 hour train ride to Beijing.

By Kiah