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y time in China is quickly coming to an end and the thought of going back to university is giving me this urgent feeling to travel around Asia as much as I can (thanks Mom & Dad). The first trip organized was Henan Province. Starting our trip at 3am, we arrived at the Xi’an airport where Mary (our tourist guide) was waiting for us to get us started right away. Our first stop was approximately 10 minutes away from the airport. It was a small version of the Terra-Cota Warriors, the Han Yang Ling Museum; this is the place for a mausoleum
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made for an emperor and his empress dating back to 188 BC. Surrounding the emperor’s graveyard there are 86 burial pits, 21 are open for visitors. The pits are filled with the emperor’s court, servant, eunuchs, concubines, warriors, tailors, even domesticated animals, all of them miniatures. We then went to visit the BanPo Neolithic Village, a 6000-year-old village located in the city, considered one of the oldest archeological finds in China. Open to the public in 1958, it has two halls; the first, an
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exhibition hall that displays weapons, urns and plates that gives you a perspective of how they were living in that time period. The other hall was mainly the excavation place where they found remains of the houses the people were living in, as well as storage hole, fireplace, tombs and some skeletons. Depending on how they were buried, Mary told us, it tells a little back story of who they were, 4 of them were very carelessly buried, meaning they may have been thieves. Having had a very early and tiring morning
