end visit to China and finally .. pictures! Excuse for a long wait, I'll start from the images:
Well, and now to complete the story:
And so, after a trip to the Terra Cotta Army in Xi'an have spent 5 days touring, shopping and meeting several times with Faith.
So, I started to visit the Great Wild Goose Pagoda built in 652 was built to accommodate it sutras and relics brought from India by the super famous monk, Xuanzang'a. He went on to India, learned the language, to translate hundreds of sutras, and brought back the relics (Sakyamuni Buddha phalanges, etc.), statues and sutras.
As in other places, the government obudował monument of the "old town", turning the countryside into small entertainment district. They came out rather well, and the whole place makes good impression.
second point was visited Little Wild Goose Pagoda, with the same period. Beyond the area of \u200b\u200bthe pagoda contains a museum Xi'anu in itself not so interesting, but the big cities as a model of the Tang Dynasty, which was interesting. Then thoroughly
visited the city center. As discussed earlier, the center is Dzwonna Tower, built by the first emperor of the Ming dynasty (fourteenth century) to prevent dragon spirit of the city before the transfer of power in the empire. Next to it stands the second tower, Drum Tower (built at the same time). In ancient times, opening the gates mieskich announced bell and drum zamnknięcie.
Behind the Drum Tower is the district's Muslim Xi'anu. They came here as traders on the Silk Road, Xi'an which was the end, and continues to represent a distinct minority. They are so big mosque, built in Chinese style, wear white hats, have their own kitchen, from which they are famous, and a pair of narrow streets full of stalls with different goods, of course, mainly for tourists (I talked about crowds, no?). Number of tourists in August the price shifts, as I wanted a (pirated) video, the guy from whom I bought gave me the price of 65 yuan (22 gold), although in Chengdu bought this for $ 5 (2 gold). I bought at the end of the 10th
Another very interesting place to which I went was the Banpo Neolithic village. Archaeologists discovered the remains of the village of '50 with 3-5 millennium BC They made on this basis, a very nice museum showing how people lived then, built houses, which they could, as burying the dead ... was also the reconstruction of the village, but a little tacky.
Another place that I had been to visit the Museum of Shaanxi (province of Xi'an in which it is), but what was my surprise at seeing the huge crowds in front of him in line for about 400m. Group of students approached me and explained that three days after his government had done all the state museums free, and this was the first Saturday after the directive ...
But it worked out well, because in return I went to these students, students of English who has just got a patent guides, the Tang Paradise, an amusement park on the former grounds of the imperial gardens in the Tang Dynasty.
It was an interesting place, of course, entirely new, but they had lots of productions and a variety of interesting reconstruction of buildings from this period. That, plus I had a guide, meant that it was a very interesting trip. In the evening in the park had an interesting show. It was a story taken from "Journey to the West", a classic novel about a fantastic journey to the Indian monk Xuanzang'a the sutras (see the Great Pagoda of the Wild Geese above), told through the use of lasers drawing pictures on the streams of water thrown out by the fountain.
last day I went to the monastery of 8 Immortals (built at the inn where they reportedly were seen) , Piercing itself was not too unusual but we had a very cieawy antique market at the gate, and for the Chinese market more than the foreigners (the place is far from the beaten path, is the most active center of Taoism in Xi'an).
I still had some time, so the map chose a place with an asterisk (sight) and I went there. Were supposed to be the ruins of the palace of the Tang Dynasty Dannig, but it turned out that the whole area is fenced off with no museum, and the same place in the heart of a very poor neighborhood. But it was good to know other face of the city, apart from a wealthy tourist center and south suburb (in that direction stretched across the city as the Tang Dynasty).
In the meantime, I met several times with Faith for lunch or dinner, she showed me a couple of different restaurants, Huoguo - fiery pot Manchurian restaurant where people ate meat from the bones with your fingers, etc. Overall I'm very
tasted cuisine in Xi'an ( as elsewhere in China), and additionally specializes in Xi'an, special rolls and cakes, sometimes related to drunk, very tasty.
In the end I did not go to Pingyao, which was in my preliminary plans, a small village preserved in an almost intact.
I left, I went to Xi'an and Shanghai, and no, unfortunately, I gave a good steal. At the station, my wallet disappeared, but fortunately with nothing very important, student card (and so the exchange), 100 USD, and no, unfortunately, a few e-mails to people whom I met. In addition, he disappeared my electronic dictionary. I can not say with 100% certainty that they stole it from me and not I go somewhere in the division, but on the train, I remember that once I returned from the toilet was wondering why I left an open backpack ...
in Shanghai (by night, driving 15h) visited the building in which was held the first Congress of Delegates Chinese Communist Party and finished shopping. Overall, I bought a 3 series (Deadwood, Babylon 5, and Deep Space 9), with 30 films, a lot of turns with images (nice, hand-painted for 10 zł?), A lot of clothes, a lot of books (eg the great English-English Dictionary Concise Oxford, the Chinese market for 33 zł), and of a few games - like Mahjongg (weighed ton), chess, Chinese Shah ... Well, minor prezencik. Overall, a little exaggerated.
back was quite successful, not to mention the fact that I managed to break glasses, and that the case (I bought to transport the slack), I shivered a (Ie, wheels and handles) and it was hard to tear.
