Looks like: grand old city with ever-present smog.
sounds like: "I give you good price..." followed by half an hour of haggling.
smells like: lilacs and cherry blossom.
tastes like: steamed dumplings, yum yum. 6 RMB (about 30p) for 10.
feels like: unseasonally hot.
In Lu Dao hostel I found a clean bed and someone keen to hang out for the day, so Sarah and I walked around Xi'an and tried to get a good price in the market. Not much luck. I liked walking around the Muslim Quarter with its wide streets, old men sitting outside their shops, bird cages hanging in the trees with sparrows or larks singing inside, food smells wafting down the street. We walked to Grand Xingshan Temple and admired their creepy halls full of plaster depictions of Buddhist hells. Poor souls were impaled, had their entrails eaten by dogs, eyes pecked out by birds, or boiled in big pots, all in glorious technicolour and fine detail. Grim but kind of funny.
sounds like: "I give you good price..." followed by half an hour of haggling.
smells like: lilacs and cherry blossom.
tastes like: steamed dumplings, yum yum. 6 RMB (about 30p) for 10.
feels like: unseasonally hot.
In Lu Dao hostel I found a clean bed and someone keen to hang out for the day, so Sarah and I walked around Xi'an and tried to get a good price in the market. Not much luck. I liked walking around the Muslim Quarter with its wide streets, old men sitting outside their shops, bird cages hanging in the trees with sparrows or larks singing inside, food smells wafting down the street. We walked to Grand Xingshan Temple and admired their creepy halls full of plaster depictions of Buddhist hells. Poor souls were impaled, had their entrails eaten by dogs, eyes pecked out by birds, or boiled in big pots, all in glorious technicolour and fine detail. Grim but kind of funny.
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