travel notes of Xi'an

Xi'an,originally known as Chang'an, is the capital of thirteen dynasties. My son and me spent 3 days to enjoy our summer holiday in this ancient city.

I call this trip is a lazy trip, because I don't plan too many places to visit. I don't like crowded place, I am exhausted by my job, I just want to have a relax holiday. Just Want to I have enough time to enjoy this city and its diverse local food.

We went Xi’an by high-speed train, only 3.5hours trip, much better than taking airplane. I think we should thank Chinese government for building so many high-speed railways, it provides great convenience for short distance travel. On this point I am proud as a Chinese people.

In three days, we only visited two places, the Xi’an ancient city wall and museum of Shann ’xi province. We rode sharing bike and strolled alone road under the wall, it spent about 2 hours but give us very special experience. I think we can understand this city better by this way.

The most valuable place is Museum of Shanxi Province, but you must predate two days to book visit ticket and you have to wait about 1 hour in line for entering. This museum has many cultural relics，especially there are 18 national treasures which don’t allow to exhibit abroad. For saving time, we paid our attention to these treasures. The most impressive relic of the 18 exhibitions is ‘Ding’, it was like a book in ancient time. When some important or big event happened, our forefathers would make a ‘Ding’ and wrote down the event on it.

The last thing I want to talk is about delicious local food. To be honest, this is my main goal go to Xi’an. We ate three most famous local foods, barbecue, Chinese hamburger and bread soaked in3 days. Each restaurant we went twice to enjoy these delicious foods. I have to admit the barbecue is my favorite, but the pity is that the barbecue restaurant doesn’t provide beer because religious belief.

My son and me are very satisfied about this restful and joyful trip. From my point of view, if I went to some famous place,I would not go to the most crowded scenic spot or made very busy plan to make me very tired. Only you have enough time and easy mood, you can get happy feeling.