We traveled to Xi'an Nov 6-8. This is the city were the Terra Cotta Warriors are. It was the capital of the first emperor of China, about 2000 years ago. He forced 700,000 workers to build his tomb and make the warriors for over 38 years; he believed what ever he was buried with would be his in the afterlife. When he died over 3000 concubines were buried with him. The villagers were so mad, they started a huge fire, burned his palace and smashed all the warriors. His actual tomb as yet to be opened; supposedly it is booby-trapped and the rivers in the map of china are made out of mercury.
The Warriors were rediscovered in the 1970's. Many have since been put back together but most are still buried.
We also visited a village that had people living there 6000 years ago. That one was pretty interesting.
Xi'an is the beginning of the silk road so there is a large Muslim population. We spent Saturday evening walking around the Muslim street eating lamb and bread.
Sunday we visited Big Goose Pagoda where we saw these people doing Tia Chi with swords.
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