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Thought the taxi situation couldn't get much worse than Beijing Zhan, but Xian has successfully managed to do that.
When you come out of the doors into a true mass of people, there is absolutely no sign of taxis or where to go for them.
There are plenty of taxi touts who will find you, but these are just 'brokers' who will then find a taxi and mark the price up substantially. If you do not have much luggage, then it is better to walk straight ahead PAST the big blue hoardings and the taxis are on the left hand side on the other side of the hoardings (taxis here are bright green).
If you have a lot of luggage, then you may have to just pay the rip-off rate. (We paid RMB100 for a minibus for 6 to the southside of the city....two taxis would have cost us around RMB28)...and this was after a lot of negotiating in Chinese. The one satisfaction was that we managed to avoid paying the taxi tout 'broker' anything because she lied to us about the price and we and the minibus driver refused to have anything to do with her! Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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 Map of Xi'an within the walls by chinagazer
Office hours: 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00.
Only a couple of people queuing here and the service is very fast.
The staff who served us did not speak one word English (I did not hear/see her utter a single Chinese word to her Chinese customers either), but was extremely efficient in communicating in writing (train number, departure/arrival times, price, etc.). Very easy and fast to buy train tickets here.
Address: on the north/east corner of the intersection of Dongda Jie (east-west) and Jiefang Lu (north-south). The black circle in the right lower quarter of the map indicates the intersection where the office is located.
Aknowledgement: the map is a copy of a free leaflet edited by the Tourism Bureau Of Shaanxi Province and made available at hotel desks. If anybody objects to the use of this map on my tip, please contact me. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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Managed to booked 5 soft sleepers on the train from Xi'an to Beijing. My wife shared rooms with 3 ladies while me and kids take a whole compartment with 4 soft sleepers.
This new train is an all soft sleepers at 417RMB for lower level and 408RMB for upper level. No hard sleepers, soft seats or hard seats.
Available on the same train in a single carriage, is the Executive Soft Sleeper with 2 soft sleeper with attached toilet and a sofa. Price about 700RMB.
The journey was very smooth and the toilet was clean.
Each soft sleeper comes complete with a LCD TV. i.e. 4 LCD per compartment.
Best to book the tickets 2 days in advance.
Train Station is on the north side of the City wall and next to the Bus Station. Taxi fare to the Train Station should be in the region of 6-10RMB (pending distance). 6RMB is departing from North Main Street.
Train departs about 7:30pm and getting a cab at about 5:00pm (during office rush hours) is a problem. Advised from locals - catch a cab from the north bound traffic on the North Main Street if you are staying in the vicinity of the Bell Tower. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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1.Get on public bus No.307 on Railway Station Square, paying for the ticket after getting on the bus. Once a day in the morning, around 8:00, please check the timetable because I'm not sure if it changes.
2. Take train from Railway Station, you have many choices.
From Lintong (After you finish visiting the Terracotta Army)
3.If you finish visiting the Terracotta Army, you can contiune to head to Huashan Mountain. From 10 am to 10 pm, there are 14 train via Lintong to Huangshang Mountain. The price is 8~16 yuan, and it just takes you within 1.5 hours to get there. Theme: Train
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We caught the train from Xian to Pingyao. It was organised for us by the guide through the hotel. Cost: 127 Yuan for a seat in a 4 berth cabin. Our train number was 1676. It left at 14.32 and arrived at 11.30pm in Pingyao. After getting a taxi to the railway station because we had soft seats we went to a special waiting area and were called by a staff member to board the train. On boarding the train we found that we both had top bunks in a 4 bed cabin. The girl who had one of the bottom bunks immediately closed the curtains and proceeded to lie down fully on her bunk. This was a signal that we should not sit on the lower bunk. We ignored her and stayed on the other bottom bunk until about 8pm Luckily, the person who had the rightful claim to the bottom bunk came on after Pingyao so we were able to look out (we opened the curtain on our side of the window) and get a bit of a glimpse of the country while it was still daylight. Our arrival in Pingyao at 11.30pm was quite surreal. (see Pingyao) Theme: Train
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To get around city of Xian is very easy, you can buy a local roadmap at railway station for only RMB1. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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The railroad network has connected Xi'an with all major cities in China and made Xi'an the traffic switch center between northwestern China and its other parts. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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I went to Xi'an from Beijing by train (soft-sleeper) on both occasions. It was fun for the first time and the experience is worth it but if I return to Xi'an I will prefer airplanes (China Northwest Airlines flies to Xi'an mostly). It takes about 14 hours from Beijing to Xi'an and the train mostly goes at night so most of the time it's dark and you don't see much of the landscape. Theme: Train
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Unless you speak Mandarin, China can be a challenge! We did not speak Mandarin and we got by, but be prepared.
The train station we used twice; once upon entering the city and again on departing. Tickets to foreigners are usually more than what the Chinese people pay. You can usually only buy from a particular booth too.
Beijing to Xi'an was approx 13 hours and Xi'an to Chengdu was about the same again if I remember correctly. The train station is busy; keep a tight hold on your ticket and when you go into the station there is a conveyor belt for luggage checks, much like what you get at the airport.
Trains in standard sleeper class were always fine. Sometimes a little smoky, but fine.
Some hostels will book your tickets for you, so that you don't have to visit the train station until you leave; of course this will cost a few yuan extra.
There is always hot water available on the trains in flasks. In this case all you need to bring are noodles in tubs to eat - everyone does this.
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We took the overnight Z train from Beijing to Xi'an. OUr wonderful guide, Alvin bought us the tickets before we arrived in China, and they cost 417 RMB for soft sleeper bottom bunk.
I think if you are not worried about which day you travel you can buy them yourself,or get your hotel to reserve them when you reach Beijing.
It was really easy to find the right platform and everything, and the compartment was clean and comfortable. We should have bought some food before we boarded the train, though because the food was lousy and expensive.
The little disposable slippers were cute.
If you want to see what the train looks like, check out the man in seat sixty- one .His website has all the pix of all the major trains. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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