Friday we got treated to a western banquet, steak and chips which was a welcome relief from sticky rice! Saturday we headed to see the terracotta warriers. First we stopped off at the city wall, then stopping at a factory shop who make the figures, of course I wanted to buy several full size ones but they were too expensive. Then to the museum to see the soldiers. As we arrived we got to see the man who discovered the soldiers in 1974, although we weren't allowed a photo with him. In case anyone has not heard of this famous site, in the 70s they discovered thousands of these terracotta soldiers burried underground, and found out they were burried around the tomb of the emporer to protect him in the after life. However a few years after his death many of the tombs were destroyed by an oppositin uprising. The site is in 3 sections, 3 big buildings that have been constructed over the excavated areas. The first 1 is the biggest and contains 1000 reconstructed soldiers, they are so detailed, all with different faces, and different ranks. Only 1/3rd of this area has been restored, as you walk towards the back of the building you can see the piles of soldiers on the floor in pieces, you can imagine it was a nightmare jigsaw puzzle to put them back together. The next building you can see buildings with roofs, and roads leading inside, with soldiers stood outside the buildings as guards. The 3rd section was another big area manily still to be investigated but you can see the remains of the soldiers, horses and chariots. We also saw pictures of what the soldiers used to look like, they were originally all painted, and wore clothing and held swords and arches. Unfortunetly the paint has all faded now once they were exposed to the light. It was another impressive sight to add to the checklist on our travels. On the way back we went for a walk around the muslim quarter in Xian, and saw the ancient mosque, which looked very similar to chinese temples. The streets were full of stalls for the tourist. Last night we went for a dumpling banquet, which was several courses of dumplings with all different fillings. After just a few of them we had had enough! We then got to see a show of music and dance from ancient times, very pretty, just not really our thing, but it seemed to go down well with the majority of old people who were all sat there with there camcorders! We also had to sit in the aisle as the table our seats were reserved for, with another couple refused to share there table, even though everyone had to sit with other people, they were so rude, and even refused when the management spoke to them, so we sat at the side. We later found out they were japanese, which we had already guessed by there behaviour! Today we are going to see a big white pagoda and Xian museum, before flying to Shanghai this evening. Obviously last night when we got in we celebrated the news that Rotherham managed to stay up!