When you’re lucky the people who sell the traintickets speak English. The best way to arrange a trainticket is with a note from the hostel. Every hostel will write a note for you. It’s way easier with this note. Check before you go if there are traintickets en write the number of the train on the note aswell.
When you visit Xian a nice way option is to visit the Birdmarket in Muslim area. There are a lot of people selling stuff. You’ll see the weardest things like pills and even granates.
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Last days I spend wit two Swedish guys on Hua Shan mountain near Xian. We took the train early and walked up the mountain to the West Peak. On that point we booked a hostel an visit the real West Peak. The hostel was hard to sleep very cold and hard beds. At 4.30 we climbed via the central Peak to the East Peak to see the sunrise. It was cloudy so the sunset was nog that beautiful as we hoped. But after the sunset we tried the plankwalk. Thats a awesome expirience! Walk on plank with nothing beneath. We did the full round to see the other peaks. Now we are tired of the thousands of stairsteps and ready to grap a deserved beer at the hostel!
After a week of tours and sightseeing yesterday it was a day to chill. Went with my roommates to the trainstation to buy a ticket eated some new streetfood walked trough Xian to see the birdmarket. For lunch we tried another local restaurant. I like the dumplings! Mike learned me some Chinese words so now I can order beers count a little and say beauty. Thats always good to know 😉 Today slept till 11.00 so thats nice I think I needed some sleep.
Chinese is very difficult because of the tone differences.
If you want a quantity of it you have to put ger behind it.
When you need wifi just try some networks you can find and use the password: 88888888 Eight is a lucky number in China. My second network was directly working
Because of the beers last night this morning a had a few terracotta warriors in my head who hammered my head so I had to bring them back 😉 From Xi’an we took the subway and bus to get there. It’s amazing to see how many of them there are and all with different clothes and faces. Back in Xi’an we eated at a local restaurant. 35 rmb a person, tried some streetfood, fruit and took a electric tuk tuk to the hostel.
After arriving I just relaxed and met three new travelmates from Germany, Australia and the UK. We biked on the citywall of Xian. Its touristic but defenitly something you have to do when you’re in Xi’an. After getting hungry from biking we had lunch. We tried a lot of streetfood (even chickenfeet) and the famous dish (yángróu páomó) in the Muslim area. It’s lambsoup with bread and noodles. In the evening we ate at a local restaurant, drunk some beers and a bottle of baijiu! (Nice ricewine).
You can grap a taxi (15/20rmb), take bus 103 (1 rmb), go with the subway (2 rmb) or ask a guy on a motorcycle (15 rmb) to bring you to the Warriors Youth Hostel. The last option was nice!
The Warriors Youth Hostel is a good and clean hostel with comfortable beds. I like the place!
When you’re going by the taxi, ask the taximeter. When you take the motorcycle negotiate before. When the city is busy avoid the traffic and take the subway 🙂
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