From Datong, I took the train again. This time hard sleeper, departure at about 4 pm, and arrival in Xi’an around 9 the next morning. This time there was a group of russian students (studying chinese here) on the train.
The first observation upon arrival: no sun! and I thought weather would get better on moving towards the south! Lunch was homemade and for dinner we got Paomo for which Xian is famous. The next day I took the bus to see the terracotta army. “Finally” the vendors were as annoying as I had expected it! People offering to be my tour guide even threatened “You wont find the entrance without me!” and that almost seemed correct – you had to walk past so many souvenir stalls before finally arriving at the entrance! But I DID find it alone 😉
Dinner was Korean hotpot.. with korean chopsticks! they re even harder to use than chinese ones! and after that we went shopping (shoes..) – but as shops were already closing, we had to continue the next day.
Shopping part II made my phone look like a blue bear – I think I still need some time to get used to that 😉
And then it was already time to pack again: tomorrow I will spend all day on the train. From 8:50 until 23:45, when the train should arrive in “YichangDong” (written on the train ticket) which is hopefully the same as “Yichang” (where I want to go…).