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Dance - A Spring Outing - Shaanxi Grand Opera
the tent shopping mall
The Singer- Park Qin
Xi'an - China
Thanks to the people who answered my question and suggested asking the hotel/hostel to help me book the ticket.But what I forgot to mention is that I will arrive in Xian on the morning of the 27th from Bejing and want/need to leave the same evening so I won't have a hotel in Xian to help me.I reach Bejing on the 24th August.Is it safe to leave booking trains till I arrive both for Bejing to Xian and Xian to Shanghai? Also those dates are not flexible. Any further advice please.
If you have to leave at same day then I'll recommend you take plane since you can book ticket online:
http://www.elong.net
http://english.ctrip.com
If you can read Chinese, try:
http://www.xt-kp.com/
Ask the travel desk of Bell Tower IYH to help. You don't need to be staying there.
I also have question regarding xian shanghai train. How hard is it really to get train ticket from xian to shanghai? I'll be coming from Beijing, then I'll go to Xian. Then when I arrive at Xian, I plan to buy the train ticket to Shanghai ASAP. I'm going to stay in Xian only 3 or 4 days. IS it possible for me to get ticket to shanghai,a hard sleeper one?
Don't count on it. Tickets go on sale 10 days in advance and there's only 1 train that originates in Xi'an. I would advise getting someone to help pre-buy the ticket if at all possible.
You surely won’t forgive yourself if you travel China without a camera. I personally have ton of memory space, not to mention I have my notebook around because I needed it for my training in Beijing.
If you're a shuttle happy guy like me, you probably need to bring one of this photo storage (see 2nd picture) to store your high resolution photos. Why deprive yourself from clicking the shuttle?
Food venders in the muslim quater
This is a muslim area in side of the drum tower. Wonderful local muslim food and middle-east and old CHinese combined style architechture everywere in this area. The biggest and oldest mosque in China is also located here.
Try the muslim BBQ, close ur eys to feel the bright minority's civilization.
Small World Cafe - just outside of the South City Wall
Angeller Pizza - Close to Xian' Foreing Languages University
Lao Sun Jia
Xi'an Hotel - Dumplings
Zhu Yuan Cun Hotpot - in Da Chai Shi area, downtown
Da Pan Ji - muslim food, big dish of chicken, potato and noodles best combination. ( Nan Shao Men area, at the north-west corner of the junction) Beef BBQ
Fish BBQ
Eight-treasures porrich
Glutinious rice cake
Mutton soup served with small pieces brand
Noodles ( Yi fen Li)
Dumplings ( Jia San Jia)
Cold noodles ( Xue Chan Li Cold noodles) - close to Nan Shao Men area, almsot opposite the old stadium
Rou Jia Mo - Pork Sanwich, traditional Xian Food, the best u can find
After our lunch with George and our driver, he took us to the Muslim Quarters and the Great Mosque. Our itinery originally was to go to the Shanxxi Museum but apparently it was closed on a Monday. So, we went here instead, and I would thoroughly recommend spending a few hours here. The shopping was great, very cheap and some unusual items we did not see anywhere else in China. Im not too sure about the food, we saw some very unusual delicasies which, every time I asked what they were, I got the answer "you dont want to know!" One I did take a pic of was goats feet!!!
Muslim Quarters is very close to the Great Mosque, but not too sure of the exact address. Im sure your Hotel staff will be able to advise taxi drivers of where to go.
The Bell Tower, is a stately traditional building, that marks the geographical center of the ancient capital. During the Ming Dynasty, Xian was an important military town in Northwest China, a fact that is reflected in the size and historic significance of its tower. The tower was built in 1384 by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang as a way to dominate the surrounding countryside and provide early warning of attack by rival rulers.
These extremely thick city wall are a wonder by itself. The city wall is constantly modified for vehicular traffic passthru.
The original gates to the city wall is the North, East, South and West Gate.
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