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Xi’An (III) ShaanXi Historical Museum

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Shaanxi Historical Musem (陕西历史博物馆)

As I had been unable to organize for a “Western Tour” with a tempel and some tombs I decided to check out the well-praised Shaanxi Historical Museum, claiming itself to be the “first modern museum in China”, and rated by Lonely Planet as “one of the best in China”, promising some overview of Chinese history from Neolithic to Qing dynasty times. As I didn’t find a suitable bus I just walked the 20 minutes there. I had seen the building the day before, also praised by the CITS tour guide while passing by in our bus. But if I would not have seen it before it would have been hard to figure out which exact building it was. There was a stone with its Chinese title carved into it in front of the building, but no other sign whatsoever, neither Chinese nor English. Eh…do they want to attract tourists or not…? 35 RMB admission was quite OK though.
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Map of China

Map of China with my travel route, updated as of 2007-08-25, returning to Shanghai. For Vietnam please see the Vietnam map.

This map is (no longer) interactive, but I keep it as you can see the means of travel here better. See here for an interactive map showing all posts.

Legend:

Straight Red: By Train (e.g. BeiJing -> Xi’An)

Dotted red: By Plane (e.g. Shanghai -> QingDao)

Straight Green: By Bus (e.g. QingDao -> YanTai)

Blue Dashes: By Ferry (YanTai -> DaLian -> TianJin)

Categories: AsiaGeneral Infos

Originally Created: 06/21/2007 11:48:38 AM

Last Edited: 08/25/2007

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Xi’An (II) Now for the Chinese Cradle

The mosque might be great, but the reason you come to Xi’An is probably more because of the Army of Terracotta Warriors. I guess all people do so, if not here for business. Today I just let me drive around by a CITS guided tour to save all the hassle of finding the places far out Xi’An. It proved a good choice. The army is 1 hour’s drive out of Xi’An. But we startd very local…nearly…I was the first to get on the bus as the CITS main office is right next door. Then we did a sightseeing tour of Xi’An’s top class hotels and, belive it or not, one hour later drove by my hotel again on the way to the first stop. I could have slept an hour longer…grrr…. Continue reading Xi’An (II) Now for the Chinese Cradle →

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BeiJing (V) Hiking Outside the City

Hiking with BeiJing Hikers: Two Valley Hike

BeiJing Hikders offer hikes every weekend. So if you are interested check out their web site. It’s just 200 RMB for a “standard” hike, which includes coach transport to the start, guide, park entrance fees, and a snack after the hike. Highly recommended if you happen to be in BeiJing on a weekend!

The hike I participated in was considered a “lush walk”, category 3, and that only because of a few rocks in the way, which allowed for some funny climbing exercise right before lunch break. It was in a hilly forest area, whose name I could not remember. Something with Xiang tun (香屯). Continue reading BeiJing (V) Hiking Outside the City →

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BeiJing (IV) Touri Hotspots

Today finally a bit of real tourist sightseeing: Two major sights of BeiJing, one very famous, the other one yet to be discovered by a larger crowd of foreign tourists: Summer Palace and Fragrant Hills Park. I have made more pictures in this one day (86 in total) than in all other days in BeiJing together. No, don’t worry…you’ll get a small selection only. I mean…it’s just 2 sites, and especially about Summer Palace everything is said and shown already in thousands of books, so I cut myself short. Nothing really extraordinary happened today anyway. I took the subway out to XiZhiMen (西直门) and hoped to find one of the busses indicated by Lonely Planet. Continue reading BeiJing (IV) Touri Hotspots →

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BeiJing (III) Future Schedule, Flag Parade

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Finally, finally…the next days are finally scheduled. It is not like I had dreamed of, but after all the failed attempts I have today agreed into a very much guided tour for the next few days. Most of the elements I wanted to have are in there, though not necessarily in the order I had wanted, and also not in the way. But one thing after the other… Continue reading BeiJing (III) Future Schedule, Flag Parade →

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BeiJing (II) City Wall and QianHai Lake by Night

Yet another restfull day…but also unproductive. I spent some hours with may laptop, trying to find a travel agency office in BeiJing, which knows about the Tibet business. I must be completely silly…I don’t find anything. The only agency I found on the net, which even declares itself being the only Tibet Agency with a BeiJing office, does not state its office address, but asks for first contact by mail. Continue reading BeiJing (II) City Wall and QianHai Lake by Night →

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TianJin (I) Old architecture and new construction sites

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TianJin (天津)

After arriving by ferry I took a shower, stole a roll from the still displayed breakfast buffet (which usually costs 10 RMB), got catched by a hotel employee and promised to come tomorrow for breakfast to pay 😉

And then headed for sightseeing. Quite honestly, TianJin did not impress me:
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