1 The main tower on the city walls
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3 One of the guard towers, Xi'an city wall
4 The walls encircle the old part of the city, and are 14km in total perimeter
5 The bell which, when rung, would alert the city denizens of an attack
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7 The west gate of the wall, with extruded parapets
8 The silk rug factory (state owned and operated)
9 Lacquerware
10 Making a rug, it takes her 2 days to make one row of silken colors
11 A finished silk rug
12 Making tie-dyes, Chinese style
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14 Pit #1, where the 8,000 terracotta warriors reside
15 Pit #2
16 The main gate to the terracotta warriors, behind which are 1,000s of street vendors
17 Our tour guide Li Yen and Ted
18 The terracotta warriors in pit #1
19 Each is slightly larger than life size (~1.7 meters)
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21 Large portions of the pit are still unexcavated today
22 The extent of the excavation
23 A horse
24 Some restored pieces waiting to be put back to their original place
25 More restored pieces
26 Some broken shards where the archaeologists have not yet begun to piece them together
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28 Pit #2, the underground army headquarters
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30 The construction men wear suitcoats
31 Mongolian hotpot. Not visible are the leaping flames beneath the bowl.
32 Our Tang Dynasty Dinner show
33 China's next emperor
34 Our 5-star hotel room at the Shangri-La
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