Xi’an
The fourth stop on our tour was Xi’an, at the eastern end of the silk road, and the captital of China during 13 dynasties. The first stop on our tour was the city wall.
The next day we went to see the terracotta army. On the way we made a little detour to one of the parks in the the city, to see the locals doing Tai Chi, and to see the Little Wild Goose Pagoda.
Then on to the main event for the day. The excavation site is huge. It looked big in the pictures I had seen before, but I didn’t quite realise how big it was. This has to be the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle. When the pit was first unearthed not a single soldier was intact. All the ones you can see in the photos below have been put back together by archaeologists.
