Xian
 
 
 
 
 
The sun was hidden by the smog
Buddha
Bicycling on the city wall
The countryside near Xian
On the bus
A big museum
Really really old paper
Really really old sculpture
The Wild Big Goose Pagoda
Smogy sun
Looking up
Looking down
the distance disappears in the smog
along one of the main thoroughfares in Xian
 
Looking north, from the Bell Tower
Looking west
Our hotel
Looking south
The Bell Tower
The Bell Tower and a mall, viewed from Drum Tower
I was surprised by the # of American-style ads
 
An open-air market
A market in the Muslim quarter
 
 
The main street in the Muslim quarter
Entering a Chinese mosque
 
At the Banpo village museum
Seeing the Terracotta Warriors
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The site of the Xian incident
McDonalds on both sides of our hotel
How I ordered
A beggar outside McDonalds
 
A bell inside the city wall
On the city wall
Looking into the old city
Old and new
The wall is huge
Why the air is so smogy: this is in center city
At the north gate
At the east gate
 
 
The train station