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Gate Ceremonies Market Pagoda Tang Dynasty Warriors Yang Ling

 

the key to the city

 

that was presented at this ceremony at the Xian gate

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a portion of the Xian town wall and moot

 

Xian was a walled city

 

watch tower

 

view from the wall

 

 

the moot as seen from the wall

 

modern traffic entering the old city through the wall

 

 

gate

 

food stand in the Xian Market

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Xian Pagoda

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men of the Tang Dynasty court

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the terracotta warriors
the most famous site in Xian

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figure recovered from the Han mausoleum at Yang Ling

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Happy Pig

 

buffet table at the tourist show

 

 

a game among friends

 

a family game

 

 

cutting a Chinese emblem from Styrofoam

 

man against man

 

bicycles held back till the light changes

 

street cleaner


Gate Ceremonies Market Pagoda Tang Dynasty Warriors Yang Ling

Beijing Chengdu Chongqing Countryside Dujiangyan Great Wall  2005 Guilin Harbin Kashgar Market Kashgar Silk road Shanghai Suzhou Three Gorges Forbidden City Gorges  project Pandas Urumqi Uyghur Culture Uyghur home Wuhan Yangtze river Yangtze Villages Xian Hong Kong Macao Taiwan Taiwan Country Tibet Tibet to Nepal

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