Well... had a mammoth post all set up and was feeling quite pleased with myself for getting on the blog, unfortunately I tried to save it and it vanished so here we go again with a more condensed version this time. We left Beijing on monday after collecting our vietnamese visa's, was all straight forward. Got on the train down to Xi'An with our panda hats, a few beers and some music, went quite quick for 12 hours.
Got to Xi'an and booked a train straight out again the next evening which only gave us 36 hours, should have spent a bit longer there really but never mind. On the second day we went to the teracotta warriors which were really spectacular. Farmers found it in 1974 when they were digging a well and since then they have unearthed 2000 different warriors and pieced them back together. They were built and buried to protct an emporer after his death.
That evening we got the train from Xi'an down to chengdu where we went to see robs highlight of the trip, a 71m high buddha built to protect people on the river beneath, was really impressive, well worth the trip down there. Yesterday we got up early and went to see the panda's at the research centre. personally i thought it was a bit of a let down, was nice to see the pandas but they were letting people into the enclosures for 50 pounds to stroke and hug the panda's. Today we're heading to lijiang on the sleeper bus, takes 23 hours which should be an experience....
Paul colm simon and rob
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