Saturday, February 25, 2017

Report #54 Beijing to Xian, China February 23, 2017 Thursday Sunny & cold Part #2 Of 2 87 Pictures

The photos from Xian continue……..



Bus goes under the wall

The wall is wide on the top

Ancient bell

Center of downtown Xian

The bell tower

A view from every wall

Gardens surround the center

Some construction going on

Famous pagoda

Many red lanterns

Streets run north to south

Dragon decoration

Even small lanterns  in the trees

Bell tower

Tower is at the end of the road

Most attraction at night

Red is the color of luck, we believe

Steep rock walls

Guard tower
Traffic below

Preserved for hundreds of years

Park grounds

Moat filled with water

Preserved forever

A biker can rent one up here

Traffic is light right now

Only quiet place to walk – no traffic

Long way down

Going to make it

Would never attempt to carry a bike down

More lanterns

There is a mosque here

Street signs all in Mandarin

Clock tower

Chinese-style museum

Pagoda

Another view of the pagoda

Pagoda

Empty streets

But not for long

On our way to the restaurant

Commuters

Entrance to De Fa Chang Restaurant

A giant golden dumpling….this is what they serve here

These were tofu noodles….quite good

Family dining

Fresh vegetables

Seating for two to twelve

Tableside service

Food cooking

Do we have enough courses

Duck dumplings with duck meat inside

She was cooking tiny dumplings in the soup

Alcohol was lit on the bottom to boil the soup

Then she served the final soup

The cooks were busy behind the scenes

The place was over-flowing with guests

Sitting down

Some of the courses, spinach, noodles, salad, and peanuts

Snow Flake beer

Trying to use the chopsticks

Pot stickers were good

Sweet pastries

Different types of dumplings

All part of the 18 courses

One thing at a time

These were fried

Shared dessert

Pagoda is lit up at night

Outside the restaurant

Pretty at night

Heading back to the hotel

Lanterns added much color

Street lights – Chinese-style

Post Office also lit up

The wall is illuminated

Tress are decorated with tiny light

Looked like a fantasy land

Celebrating New Year

Like Christmas time

Lights of downtown

Buildings nears the hotel

Neon lights

Shangri-La Xian

Terra Cotta Horse

Lobby of the Shangri-La

View from our room