Salvation army

Not that easy to travel in China nowadays. As I mentioned it previously, trains are currently crowded with soldiers heading to their base camps all over the country. To get to Xi'an, I had to take a ride on a tuk-tuk for half an hour, walk across muddy corn fields for a while, before getting to the higway and jump on a bus that was on its way to Xi'an. Again, a very surreal Chinese moment...

The main interest of Xi'an is its terracotta army, discovered by a farmer in 1974. 8000 soldiers were buried with the Emperor in order to protect him after his death. It took 40 years to achieve the whole thing. Now the site is covered by a big touristic complex, unfortunately... Yet, if the statutes are not very impressive, their number is. It is a pity though that you cannot really get closer, barrers prevent you of doing so. We were told the story of a German guy (crazy German) who hide himself a couple of months ago in order to get the chance to touch and take pictures of the statutes... The only thing he got at the end was a huge fine. Don t mess up with Chinese...