Today we visited the TC Warriors. The site was unexpectedly large. Twenty
six square miles. The first emperor who unified China over 2000 years ago
wanted lots of help in the afterlife, so he had over 8000 lifesize warrior
figures, plus armor and weapons made, then put them underground for his
tomb. The existence of this was kept a secret and only discovered in 1974
when a farmer was digging a well and got a suprise!
The chinese have done a great job creating mamoth buildings to house and
display the excavations.
Today when we visited it was raining very hard, so we all got wet. This
was a huge improvement over being wet from sweating our b__tts off! Temp
was mid 80's. Ate at a hotel restruant near the site and watched an
artisan give a noodle making demonstration. Basically took dough, rolled
it up and stretched it out, doubled it up, stretched, repeat until he ended
up with spaghetti sized noodles. Very kool. Unfortunately, our cameras
were on the bus, so no pics or video.
Toinite we see a presentation of Tang dynasty dance and afterward the girls
get to pose with a dancer. They will be dressed to the nines in
traditional chinese dresses for the occassion. Should be fun.
Tommorrow we fly to Chengdu to see the pandas. More adventures!
More later.
Rob
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