Few Neat Places

So I've already gone to a few really cool places around the city, but only a couple. I've done to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an city wall, and the Muslim district. They're all really fun and neat. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was a Buddhist temple that was really important, mostly because Xi'an, then known as Chang'an, was the center of Chinese politics and culture for centuries. It was a functioning Buddhist temple and it's absolutely gorgeous.

The city wall was a lot of fun; we got to walk an 8 mile wall (yeah, we walked the whole way) around the historic part of Xi'an. Although the wall itself and the walk was boring and it was more for the sake of doing it and being able to say that we walked it, being able to see the whole city from different places was really neat. It was a lot of fun being able to walk along the wall that was build many centuries ago, the same path that was taken by so many people over so many years!



The Muslim district was a lot of fun. Although there wasn't a lot of important historical monuments that we saw, it was filled with great food stalls and awesome shopping. Obviously most of the things were knock-offs, but they looked authentic and they looked to be pretty good. There was bargaining and excitement all around, and it was easy to tell that a lot of the foreigners were excited at the prospects they were finding.