Silk road extended, Xi’an and the terracotta warrior apartments

Despite a little trouble on the airplane with extra requirements as we were foreigners, the rest of the trip was uneventful. I am really beginning to wonder what the narrative serves by thinking that only foreigners moving around need scrutinized and not Chinese. They have to register with the app like we do, but they do not need to be virus tested before traveling or having to show the date when we arrived back to China.

Regardless, we found someone to help us register the health code on the plane and the owner of the apartment picked us up. He gave us history of Xi’an.

His apartment is called Warrior pit 1 (he also has a Warrior pit 2). As a tour director for decades, he outfitted the apartment with clay warrior sculptures.

Entrance

The backsides of these waitress are in the bathroom!

Living area

The kneeling warrior’s backside protrudes through the wall in the bedroom.

Bedroom

Bathroom

At least the warriors in the bathroom are faced away! They actually go through the real and they face the hallway.
Table base holding toiletries.
Under the sink.

We went out to the Muslim quarter to look for food.

Bags of ice in China are small amounts of ice cubes not like the big bags in the US.
Frozen yogurt made on an anti-griddle.

Making a hard ginger candy.
The ginger candy.
I had fried squid for a snack.
The poor little squids. I already ate the larger one.
Not exactly sure what this place is.

Fun with the warriors

Relaxing in the apartment we thought of funny things to do with the warriors. We will think of more…

2 thoughts on “Silk road extended, Xi’an and the terracotta warrior apartments”

  1. Love this apartment! I absolutely LOVED seeing the terra cotta warriors. Are they still doing restoration at the back en dof the Pit 1 building? I watched people working diligently to reconstruct warriors from so many small pieces! I think I read that they stopped excavation and restoration for awhile to figure out how NOT to lose the colors that disappear once they are exposed to air… or was I dreaming that? I could have stayed in that Pit for a full day.

    1. Yes they are still restoring. I did not hear about them stopping. Such fascinating information we learned! Coming back to the warriors in the apartment is fun too.

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