Woke up super-early and caught a private bus to the site of the Terracotta Warriors, about an hours drive away from our hotel. The site itself is awash with tourist shops, plus the obligatory KFC and Subway. Once through the gates to the museum, you see that the warriors are spread across three separate pits. Walking around the pits of warriors I found it hard to believe that the whole thing is anything more than an elaborate hoax. The first put is the most d...

Woke up early on the train after a really uncomfortable night. It turned out our driver was a trainee, which meant that throughout the night every time we arrived at the station the train lurched forward and we were thrown across our bunks. Possibly because of the above, the train was running late, so I bought a pot noodle and sat chatting to Rich and Leah - learnt a lot about Chinese politics. Finally got into Xi'an in the late afternoon and got a private bu...