Weekend in Xi'an,Shaanxi Province

This weekend we went to Xi'an, a city with a history of more than 3000years. It was an eastern starting point of Silk Road, this explains the presence of so many muslims in this city. There is a whole Islamic street with huge restaurants, snacks, shops. A visit to a chinese mosque was quite surprising: the architecture and writings being chinese and having nothing to do with mosques we've seen in Morocco for example.

Xi'an is a beautiful city, worth visiting. There are streets in ancient style, city walls from Ming dynasty(one of the few left in China), and the Drum and the Bell Towers. - In China almost every place of visit has been rebuilt some years ago (communists destroyed what they could), the government now develops tourism all over China and they go back to their history and start to exploit the fact that they had a rich culture and civilisation. They do it really well! And get lots of money for it.-

In one hour from Xi'an there is the Army of Terracota Warriors, which is a part of funeral objects of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum. Not one warrior is the same, moreover, the soldiers have different ranks, clothes according to their rank, some of them hold weapons and some don't. There are also chariots and charioteers and 2 types of horses: those drawing chariots and those for riding.
The sight is really amazing and impressive!

To get back to Wuhan we had to take a sleeper bus as no train tickets were left. It took us 13hours and on Monday morning we were inWuhan ready to go to work.
OreLENA.