Hey guys
Guess where we are at? So last night we decided to come to xi'an and we booked the fast train tickets and
After six hours of long ride and we're in Xi'an right now. We are in Xi'an, we are not in Shanghai.
We just took a fast train for 5 hours in the morning. Our train left 8:30 in the morning. we are super tired
Xi'an has always been on my bucket list.
especially the historical relics. right now we are at what we call Huiming Jie(回民街）
it's a street well-known for Muslim Chinese people. It's a very busy street in Xi'an
So we're gonna see what really is about
So this is like a famous
one of the most well-known dishes in Xi'an
lamb skewers and meat
on pieces of wood sticks
tastes like tree
taste like tree? so good
It's like Persian lavashak. amazing
costs 2 Yuan..so like 15 cents?
that's ridiculous.
Xi'an is really cheap. That's we found. we found Shanghai is cheap, but compared to Xi'an, Shanghai is super expensive
What about Japan? Japan is more expensive than Shanghai.
what's in there?
Sesame
ohh I love sesame! yeah
(Chinese Music)
so good
hi guys, we are just at the Xi'an metro station
we are just buying the tickets to go to the next station over
ans there to catch a busto see the terracotta warrior, so I'm super excited. But that's one of the top attractions in all of China
so I can't wait to see it over there won't be too many crowds so we can actually see the Terracotta Warriors because other guys said that when
they show up around
12:00 we can't even see the Warriors just see people so
hopefully we don't catch that problem and
Yeah, so right now it's about 8:30
still not as early as we want to go but it takes about an hour and a half to get there from Central Xi'an downtown So
stay tuned.
got some tickets
hi guys, so we are just at pit #1 right now
The King tried to fill this huge army so that one day he could tell the world that he has the big army
They're actually constructed by hundreds of small pieces archeologists have dug up and put together and
Then the remaining cracks are then filled in
And that's how they've restored them. So when you see a full complete
Terracotta warrior it actually comprises some 100 small pieces
So we just finished that pit 1 and there's how many pits
4pits. Okay. Pit 1 was the biggest one. Yeah number 2 is 2 under excavation. Yeah, so it's not completely done. number 3 is
Majority is done. Number 4 is almost done. So which one's this one? number 3 you want to go in?
Okay
This one is pit 3
We are at Pit 2 now and Pit 2 is kind of still under excavation. So it's really interesting and really cool that we got to
See at the back there there looks like it's archeological set up over there
really really cool to see this here at Pitt - they have
warriors sitting on the chariots and horses
As you guys can see there's a lot of grooves
On the ground their hooves are left by the army formation and left impression on the ground
So once they remove the the Warriors had left these grooves
It's really interesting. it's the one that has all the ranking officers that the army the kneeling archers, standing archers
and generals and any other ranking officers. you see some horses
It was really cool to see this as opposed to pit 1 that had all the standing members of the army
Excavation going on the parts they found and they wrap it up in this plastic to dry it out and then they're gonna put pieces together
Pretty amazed by this historical relics and this eighth wonders of the world and
We're just about to head home and on our way back. So this
billboard
Is one not another we discovered These are other all the world leaders at this site. So including
president of Italy and
president of the United States Bill Clinton
1998 and
Portugal, Germany
Thailand and there are quite a few
So we're now heading over to the Emperor's tomb. Emperor that had built
terracotta warriors
What's his name?
Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇墓）
emperor Qin i so I'm gonna check out his tomb so is about a five minute bus ride from the terracotta warrior museum
So there's free shuttle buses, which is really cool. So we took that
It's built in 259 BC
5200 BC. So what happened? It's like actually Emperor built their tombs before they even died
You just have it ready for when they die. They can just buried right away
usually one Emperor died you would be buried with
Thousands of people thousands of servants. All his wives have to be buried because it's just basically one dynasty one generation
So they they get buried alive. they were buried alive
Human sacrifice
basically
it's just
You were buried with the king and then to be buried with the Emperor and at that time it's nothing sad about it
It's an honor to be buried with the emperor. as far as I know that
the Qin Emperor is not really originally from this place and
In Chinese tradition, usually you bury
where you were born. the reason why the Emperor decide this place
To be buried is because this if you're looking around the area has a very good Feng Shui (风水）
has very good feng shui. it's facing the mountain and then the other way is the river so it's very very
geographically sound
On the our tour bus right now. as you can see, it's pretty crowded
It's 8 in the morning and we are heading to Huan Shan (mountain Hua)
we just hopped onto the cable car
the West Peak
West Peak cable car is one of the most advanced cable car systems in the world
It's about 4 km long
roughly about 20 minutes long
hope you guys can enjoy that
with us
check it out!
the hike is actually not too bad lots and lots of stairs but
it's about less than 1 km
Yeah, it's not such a long hike it's more of just a lot of stairs
a lot of people wejust have to kind of find your way through the
human ocean(人山人海）
We only did the half of the whole trip
And unfortunately today the weather is not on our side, rainy and we can't really do much about this
You know it still offers so much beauty
the view is just breathtaking
We are to the plank in the sky so that's the most dangerous hike in the entire world
Samar's gonna do it. So let's clap.let's encourage her to do it. No, I don't think I'm doing it
But I want to take a look and I'm not sure if we actually get to see
got to see people doing it. It might be on the other side of the mountain, but we're just gonna
Go there and see what we can really see
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