Friday 6 July 2012

PingYao to Xi'an

The day before leaving we spent the day running around the various houses that had been turned into museums
Giacometti does Buddha
Cultural Revolution slogan: "Earnestly Undertake Struggle, Criticism and Reform"
Someone swept here
View from the Wall down Xi Da Jie
View from the Wall
According to the guide book there are 72 stations of Sunzi's 'Art of War'. Little diorama vignettes in the towers along the wall. Seemed more like just domestic scenes a la Remembrance of things past.
2001AD/ 100BC
The pits of Han Yangling
Me and my little ponies

A couple of the myriad tombs at Han Yangling Mausoleum
What the figurines lack in scale compared to the 'other' Terra Cotta Army' they make up by being set in lakes of mercury and taking up 20 square kilometres of real estate

Mosque and cooling towers on the way back to town
 
Drum Tower performance

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