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This is the last post of our trip to Xi'an, and the last schedule post of our recent trip to China.

It deals with the most amazing thing I saw this year: the Terracotta Army. It's often called the Terracotta Warriors, but it is not merely a number of buried soldier-dolls. For reasons I'll speculate at below, the Terracotta forces are well organized and clearly well-run in their burnt-earth world.



So come with us, and experience that wonder of the world only discovered in the 1970s: the Terracotta Army.

Our final day in Xi'an was hectic. We began with a tour of Xian Technological University and ended being rather, well tired. In between we ate at the semi-formal Pizza Hut in in the Old Town we visited previously.

Between the college and the 'hut was saw one of the sights Xi'an is known for: the Great Wild Goose Pagoda.



Come on in to the pagoda and and her Temple of Maternal Grace!

Welcome back to my travelogue of Western Peace, the ancient capital of China.

I enjoy college. I enjoy studying in university, and I enjoy visiting them. So I've chronicles SFASU in Texas, IPFW in Indiana, and Peking U in China. So now trip to Xi'an would be complete without visiting a great college in that neck of the world: Xi'an Technlogical University.



Check in at the guardhouse...



and come on in!

The Bell Tower, one of the most beautiful street scenes I've seen in China, is in the Old Town of Xi'an (Western Peace)

Xi'an is considered to be a premier tourist destination in China's middle-west. Because the Communist Party did not purposefully destroy the old town during Mao Zedong's tenure (unlike in Beijing, where only remnants survive), the Old Town is a sight to see. It is well cared for, with the ancient towers and modern landscaping existing peacefully side-by-side



Enjoy the sights of old Xi'an...



... come with us!

"I'm ----ing tired." That's how the normally polite & well mannered, to say nothing of educated & well spoken, Lady of tdaxp suggests to begin this post.

I agree. I'm ----ing tired.

The picture you see above is not particularly amazing. Indeed, it looks just like the first-class rail cabin that it is. But the story of this rail cabin, and how we came to occupy it is --- as one might say, ----ing amazing.

Lady of tdaxp and I were sitting in King Coffee (a/k/a Kentucky Fried Chicken Cafe) when I said I would explore. A short trip revealed the most amazing and romantic -- inexplicably so -- route to a lavatory in coffee shop / fast food history. King Coffee is Old City Xi'an sends user up a stairwell -- which opens to a balcony above a rain-soaked boulevard -- before you re-enter the KFC building.

Jump ahead three minutes. Lady of tdaxp is frantically -- and fantastically -- searching for me. "I misread the train tickets! It's not 9:30! They're for 8:15!"