Pictures of Xi'an: home of the Terra Cotta Warriors & the ancient capital of China

Xi'an at dusk.

A few wonderful restaraunts - including a Muslim restaraunt that was beyond phenomenal. Not a tourist in the place... the menu was only in Chinese (maybe Arabic too - I just recall not seeing any English & having to really REALLY wing-it) ...the service was excellent, and the food was an experience in "I have no idea what I'm doing but I love it."

The streets in Xi'an were very colorful, but th air was so dirty...

Another view of the plaza with the restaraunts. There's a famous dumpling restaraunt here also.

the streets of Xi'an

"Lucy" was our Chinese guide in Xi'an. Obviously her real name wasn't Lucy. It seems that all of the tour guides have their English speaking tourists call them English names. In America we teach that: "if you can't say something nice about a person, don't say anything at all." Then as for Lucy, I'm speechless. (she's the one with the glasses & the evil-eye in case you weren't sure) I'm sure she isn't a bad person. She just treated her guests as children rather than adults.

our escape from Lucy. We wander a Xi'an market