Eggs and noodles for breakfast (approximately $1.25)
Lineup of hole-in-the-wall restaurants
Friendly but strange figures await on the steps
Super-legit brand name electronics
Still quiet early in the morning
Entry gate at the Xi'an Great Mosque
Side path, taped off
Garden inside the grounds
Furniture display
Yet another bird in a cage
Super green
Intricate carving
Lots of detail
Proceeding down the main walkway
Small pagoda
Blue trio
Very peaceful inside the gates, unlike the bustling Muslum Quarter outside
Main Prayer Hall
Strikingly blue inside
Prayer Hall
Paneled screens
Some non-Chinese characters!
Inside the gardens
Practicing in the corner
Bursting pomegranates
Muslim Quarter during the day
A nice big bowl of coal
Fizzy water bath for your beverage?
Glazed fruits
Spicy spicy spicy
Bored butcher
Furry lineup
Approaching the entrance to the Terracotta Warriors
Relaxing on the less crowded path
Meandering to the secondary entrance
First glimpse at Pit 3
Horsies
High-ranking officers
Assorted bits and pieces
Horses in profile
The mostly headless section
Missing different parts
Another corner
More officers
Formerly on the new-disintegrated chariots
The much larger pit 2
Window stencil
Took a tumble
Sections awaiting excavation
Lots of undulating rank and file
Area of active work
Gear's out, but nobody's working
A nice 3D jigsaw
Torsos and such
Bigger pieces
Mostly intact, but lying down on the job
Archer, missing a bow
Horse handler
Full sized horse
With a jaunty ascot
Missing his weapon, like the rest
Taking a knee
Detailed armor
The full lineup in pit 1
Four wide
Chariots in front, infantry in back
One headless chap
Pit 1 is huge
Corner view
Some seams visible, but overall remarkably intact
Varied hairdos
Hundreds and thousands
Heads poking up over the berms
Less dense section
Numbered for some reason
Getting pieced back together
New in shrinkwrap
Bronze chariot horses
Lots of detail
Covered wagon
Kite string
Xi'an North Gate tower
North Street as dusk settles in
Bell Tower at night
Pineapple treats
Greyhounds happily tucked in a trunk
Our dessert purveyor
Crowd on the street for the excitement
Fire a couple of buildings over
Still-gathered crowd outside our window
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