| | Day 5, Xi'an with a train ride to Shanghai.
City Wall
So we woke up in Xi'an and headed to a bike ride on an ancient gate inside the city. There were individual bikes and tandem bikes. Jason and I were going to go on individual bikes... we were fighting that morning and not in a good mood, but they ran out, so we had to ride tandem!
We raced around the wall trying to beat Paul and Simon (two cool U.K. dudes) and we would have (probably) but we got a flight tire. We still rode the bike with a flat all the way to the end. The total ride was just 8 miles.
The gate we rode on (photo by Jason)
Here our our new friends on their bikes
Sean (Australia)
Amy -Australia (I couldn't get a non blurry pic!)
Paul and Tiana - U.S. (also on a tandem bike)
Great Mosque
After that, we went to a Muslim temple. We had to go down this creepy alley and it was a bit scary. More about that in a moment. Here is the Muslim Temple. Oh, interesting note, the gals that had their shoulders showing had to put on scarves.
Right outside the Muslim temple, there was some shady construction going on. This dude was lifting rocks using a pulley with a little piece of cloth attached to it.
Dude liftin' rock (photo by Jason)
Unsafe conditions!
We made our way back to the strange alley and even picked up some food there.
(All strange alley photos by Jason)
FYI, this stuff was not very good. It was okay. I'd much rather eat a delicious rice ball in china town.
Afterwards we went some place to buy stuff and eat... I think... my memory is getting blurry. Would you believe we had McDonalds AGAIN?! Jason and Sean were both feeling very ill that day and wanted Western food. Well, y'know what? They don't use breast meat for the chicken sandwiches. UGH. Worst chicken sandwich of my life. I gave up and found some weird food at this bakery. It was pretty tasty. I ate some bread that was orange on the outside with chicken on the inside. And some peach thing that had half a peach baked into it. I might have to look for those in Chinatown.
After that we headed to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Big Wild Goose Pagoda
The Jasons (I dunno who took this photo, but it is awesome. )
They had chickens. I don't know why.
Indian Style Budha
Chinese style Happy Budha
They said to rub the belly for happiness, the ears for long life, the head for wisdom and the nipples (tour guide being a jokester)
On th way to the train, we saw these guys. A man handling them actually picked one up and offered to hand it to one of our tour group members. The tour guy wouldn't take it so the man tossed the chick back into the box.
Jason had somebody ( I dunno who!) take a photo of him and some employee at the train station.
On the train
Me n' the 56% alcohol (Firewater). Regina gave it to me. (photo by Jason)
Simon U.K., drunk on the train. (photo by Jason)
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