After a hideous 12 hour bus journey from hell, we arrived in the fourth biggest city in China, Xi’an. Like Pingyao, we again began by hiring bikes, but this time traversing the top of the cities 13.5km of walls aboard a luxury tandem bicycle. The rest of the day was spent in a bar with a Dutch man and various other travellers we picked up along the way.
After nursing some serious hangovers we went to see the Terracotta Warriors just outside of Xi’an. We were very surprised to find out that each warrior takes at least two months to reconstruct. In the final Pit there are over 2000 warriors which was an amazing sight to see. We are still not entirely of their purpose but they were cool nonetheless.
The rest of the time here was spent eating and drinking, a common theme to our trip, but very enjoyable if not particularly cultural. “Seen one temple, seen them all” we say.
