we're finally leaving xi'an today. we ended up staying here 4 nights and doing lots of stuff within shaanxi province from here as we had a nice cheap hotel room -less than 8 quid for a double ensuite with lovely air con!! and the hotel was a very comfortable place to be for a few nights too. plus a good restaurant with westernised chinese food went down well and an english menu cant hurt right?! xi'an has been so much less intimidating and crazy than beijing too,...

hi everybody! so to reassure anybody who might be worried. i am alive and well. we're in xi'an. trying to decide where to go next after pretty much seeing everything we wanted to in beijing and we'l be off to the terracotta warriors tomorrow. the great wall was amazing... tho i think we did it the hard way! got a tour which took us to jinshaoling and then we hiked along the wall for over 10km to the steep fairly intimidating section at simitai (we were exceptio...