China - Day 20

Today, we went to the Xian City Wall. There is a wall that surounds a large part of the city of Xian. I think it is 20 kilometers around the parimeter. That is basically all we did today. We reneted bikes ontop of the wall, and rode along the top, all the way around.

It was a pretty long ride. It took around 1:30 minutes I think. On the wall there are some restored parts, and some not so restored parts. So, in some places the stones were flat and smooth, but in others, it was quite bumpy, with big holes in the stones. It was fun riding around on the wall though.

It is not really like the Great Wall. This wall is smooth all the way around. There were some places that jumped up about 5 feet, and then went back down after 500 or so feet. It seems like we are planing on going to ChingDao tomorrow, although, we don't have our plane tickets yet (we are last minute people). My parents were thinking about going the ShangHai instead, but I think we are going to keep our original plans and go to ChingDao. Who knows though? We could go anywhere tomorrow... maybe we'll go to the moon, that would be fun.
-Aaron

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Infront of one of four gates. I think this is the South gate.

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Riding on the wall

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At one corner of the wall. Because it was foggy, you cannot even see to the end of the wall.

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They had some weapon racks around. All of the weapons were supposed to be stuck in the rack so you could not take them out, but one of them had been broken out.

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Riding...

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One of the other gates.

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Into the abyss

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We found an ancient Chinese technique of shrinking people. We tried it on Danny first. It worked pretty well.

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