Northern China - Warriors, Walls and Duck

Continuing north, we flew north to Xian's new airport (all Chinese airports seem to be new) . Here we spent four days, viewing the old city walls, temples and of course the Terra Cotta warriors. China has an incredible 5000+ years of imperial history, longer than Egypt, Greece and Rome we all learn in the west. The Chinese themselves are rediscovering their own heritage and expressing it through increased internal tourism, arts and cinema.

We finished China with a week in and around Beijing. We feasted on hot pot, visited Mao, shopped, saw a Kung-Fu show and experienced Chinese Opera. The hassles traveling in China are surprizingly few with friendly people and more English than I expected. Great trip! Check out the amazing photos with the link to the right.

Comment: China's 1.3 BILLION people are all striving to be part of the incredible economic growth here. Everything is new or under construction: roads, airports, buildings...amazing! On the down-side, there is smog and brown skies EVERYWHERE and stars are a rare site in most of eastern China. I hope that we can help China learns from our mistakes and or it may be to late for all of us!