We arrived in Xian at about 6 in the morning after being on a hard sleeper train, overnight for about 12 hours. We where lucky to have the bottom bunks as the top one is very high and the speaker blasts in your ear and the middle is just a little too like being in a sandwich. With the bottom you do have to wait for others to go to bed before you can, as you share it for seating.
We had arranged a place in Xian, which turned out to be exactly what we needed. It was the first 'Youth Hostel' we had been in, with a huge bar, with big comfy sofas, very cheap beer, massive breakfasts,and cute babies, cats and Ramnstein as Chris mentions below. Our room looked out over the centre of Xian which is a massive roundabout. In the centre is the one of the main attractions The Bell Tower. Tourists are allowed to enter from underground and dong the bell, lucky this didn't happen until about ten in the morning.
Our bedroom was a bit of a fun novelty too with it's see through bathroom...
We had come to Xian with the sole intention of seeing the Terracotta Warriors (another entry) which is about an hours bumpy bus ride out of Xian. But even after reading the trusty guide book, we had no idea what to else to see or do, so we got quite drunk and spoke to some fellow travellers, making for a very hungover day the next day and deciding on this hangover to take a bike ride round the 14km perimeter of the city walls. Ouch! again as we bounced along every inch.
We did find a beautiful place in the back streets of the Muslim quarter of the city too, which we wondered around alot and of course we went here, how could we not.
De Fa Chang Restaurant is renowned for it's superior delicious dumplings
Xian felt like one of the first times we really relaxed and stopped.
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Did a feast of dumplings cure your hangovers?
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