Terracotta Warriors
Trip Start
Sep 10, 2007
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Xi'an, China
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Next stop was a factory that makes terracotta souvenirs- not great really so we didn't delay long.
From here we went to the masoleum (Tomb of Qin Shi Huang - the first emporer of China) which is the burial site. The real mouseleum has never been opened so all of what is constructed in here is based on the written descriptions that were found afterwards. It was very interesting to see.
From here we went to the teracotta warriors site. Basically this was the man attraction. The terracotta soldiers of which they reckon were 6000 of them made were buried to protect the mausoleum - which is the burial place of the 1st emporor of China. The soldiers are in combat formation and amazingly no 2 soldiers are the same - i.e. all the faces are different!! We went around all 3 pits and were truely amazed at what we saw. Its definetly a unique sight and well worth seeing.
After the Terracotta warriors we went for lunch and a tour around a silk factory and warehouse. It was gas, as we entered the factory they turned on the lights and as we left they turned them off again!!
10th April
It was raining today so we took it easy at the hostel doing internet jobs etc. We adidn't venture out too far and anyway we had everything we wanted to see in Xi'an seen by now. that night we got our night train to Shanghai - another long one about 15hours. Hard sleeper all the way for us.......
