Terra-Cotta Warriors and Xi'an's good by

Yesterday Jake and I went to see the famous Terra-Cotta Warriors. Which are located out in the middle of nowhere in the Shaan-Xi provance about an hour outside of Xi'an. It was pretty cool, but not as impressive as people said it would be. Apparently it took an army of 750,00 crafts men 40 years to assemble the mass armies of clay statues. While the scale is really cool, and it's interesting to see all of the different solders and all of the different positions they hold. I kept thinking that such a project is easy when you have an army the size of Milwaukee working 24 hours a day to create this spectacle. However the attention to detail was really cool. They did make every one totally unique, and they even bothered to put the life lines in the solders hands to represent them individually. All in all worth seeing, but not the big deal people make it out to be.

After the warriors we went to the Giant Goose Pagoda with this girl from Montreal and this guy from Lancing Michigan who have each been traveling for two years by themselves. The four of us walked around for a while, then walked home.

Due to the disgusting conditions of our hostel in Xi'an, and our enthusiasm to head on out to Zhengzhou, the capitol of the Henan province (not to be confused with the Hunan Province which is more famous and much more south), and the closest major city to the Shaolin Monastery (the birth place of Kung Fu) we decided to take the 12:26 train out of town.

We arrived in Zhenzhou this mourning around and have been relaxing since.