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No.16 Fengcheng Er Road, North Greater Economic Opening Development Area, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710016, Ch
Xi'an - China
Grounds of the Great mosque
enroute to West Peak
The appearance of 3R3H
I am visiting Xi'an this 3rd to 10th June 2006. There will be about 12 people in the group. I need to know a few things as per below:
1. Which is the nearest 3 star hotel to The Great Mosque or near the Moslem Quarters?.
2. Where can I rent a 20 seater van for duration of the stay?
3. Is it possible to visit a farm and his home? Preferably a Moslem home.
4. Any VT member from Xi'an who can guide us and for me to communicate with?.
1. I always recommend the Shaanxi Wenyuan Hotel. Another traveller couple who stayed there told me that it was 4-star quality for a 3-star price! I've always gotten good reviews of the place from the travellers I've booked it for.
3. Farm?! Near Xi'an?! BTW, Muslims might not be very welcoming of strangers into their homes, due to religious reasons.
The Muslim quarter is near the Drum tower which is right next to the Bell tower. I know that the Xi'an City Hotel and the Bell Tower Hotel are all in excellent locations. Although I haven't stayed there before and can't tell you how nice the accommodation is.
The great Mosque however is outside the city wall to the south. I wouldn't recommend staying there, since it really doesn’t have other attractions nearby. There is a good website elong.net where you check out a lot of different hotels.
Sorry I can’t help you with Van situation, although I would recommend a tour company where they can take a large group and give you discount.
I don’t think there are any Muslim farmers in the area, they immigrated to Shaanxi and probably have small business and such. But I could be wrong.
Thank you all for the responses. They are all of great help.
ha ha, you are right, I was thinking of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Thank you all. My visit to Xi'an is set for 4th June to 9th June 2006. Since there is no direct flight from Malaysia we will have to go via Canton. Xi'an here we come.
Near Xian Yang, an ancient city of China, there are sites of 'pyramids'. For those of you who are interested, the following few websites have some info/photos:
http://www.earthquest.co.uk/articales/articale4.html
http://www.earthquest.co.uk/china/china.html
http://www.vfgp.de/hartwighausdorf/us.htm
http://www.trilobia.com/pyramids.htm
They have an English menu with western and Chinese food. The Chinese food we had wasn't the best we've eaten. One thing they did have was a dumpling-making night, where guests could help make dumplings and after the chefs cook them up, eat them for free. You don't learn too much about the dumplings- more of how to put them together than ingredients, though I suppose you could ask and watch that part as well.
Two images.
(VT Photo Lesson Readers, note the difference in white balance between the two images. If you never heard about the lessons, they're up on my homepage!)
From the terracotta warriors trip, you can take this side trip on the way back to town. Basically, this area are filled with little pools with different names. We came during winter, so the pond in the middle is frozen, cool :). Check out the hot spring water.
In almost all the mosques that I visited, water for purification waits the believers at the entrance, and receive a treatment of some evidence. I didn't see it in Xi'an. A beautiful and refreshing garden, but no fountain. They really wanted to be original, or did I miss something?
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is quite rundown and is a distance from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
There's another similar Pagoda at the South City Wall Entrance. Save some money and go the the South City Wall Entrance instead.
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