This next stop was to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. This is a Hindu temple built a long time ago. This was a really beautiful area....inside the area that you pay to get into. The walk up to the entrance was crazy. It was a national holiday so there were tons of people! Once you got into the paid entrance, there weren't so many people. It was such a peaceful place with beautiful gardens. There were several temples and buddhas to admire.
After this, we drove to our last stop, the City Wall. This wall is still intact after hundreds of years and it is the only complete city wall left in China. Most cities had walls to protect them. We took a rick shaw bicycle ride around a portion of the wall. The drivers could only speak Chinese so as far as getting explanations about the sites and signifcance of certain places, we could only understand a bit and there were a lot of charades. They were very nice though. IT was so hot this day, I'm not sure how they didn't keel over driving us around.
This was the end our of Beijing/Xi'an trip and it was a good trip.
No comments:
Post a Comment