I had always longed to be free......freedom...understanding...peace.....: Xi'an Memories....:)

ok here's again tons of pics taken during the 5 day trip to xi'an on which the first and last day is spent on the train:) the train ride alone to xi'an takes abt 14 hrs from shanghai...well the train back takes 20hrs!!! haha the diff is 1 is te kuai (super fast) train... well the other is juz kuai onli... wonder if its the te man(super slow) train...think can return 1 week later:)

We went on this xi'an trip during our long 7days CNY break:) and trust mi...its the best trip i have went so far... even much more fun than the beijing trip... the whole trip cost us 1600RMB on juz the tickets and the accomodation... if include our own expenses and spending think its abt 2000RMB in total...:)

ok enuf said... let the pics do the talkin:)
P.S. heng can manage to find my SD card...if not all these wonderful memories will be gone....
there r abt 100 plus pics in all...here r juz 75 of them:)

yeah here's the shanghai railway train station...haha its kinda crowded sia:)

a lot of ppl rushing to the gate entry...

yeah tats us in the train....:)

hmm....its rather late at nite le...we r still in the train...think this is dunno wat some station ba...

yeah finally we reached xi'an in the next dae morning:) 14 hrs of ride in total sia.... nice scenary...

yeah tats our tour guide... not bad looking ya?

tats mi behind some unique old wall:)

we walking to our tour bus where it will drop us at our hotel first....

yeah tats our room....and tats dun nid to mention..its cm:)

cheese:)

wao....interested for some goat head? there's plenty wor....

hmm...another some tower?

very hard to snatch this spot sia.. a lot of tourist oso fighting for this spot to take foto... dunno y so special..but singaporeans juz wack anything de:)...lol

woo.... antique building design...any MAE or CE student? care to giv an illustration or explanation on this building structure?

camels!! for ride... took video of it.... 1 of them was foaming in its mouth.... think its gonna die....lol...or perhaps the owner fed it too much beer the previous nite:)

arr... this whole performance...spend 80RMB on it...total got 8 espisode i think... out of the 6 of us... think onli mi and longhui survived throughout the whole performance... the others all KO in their slp le... haha all commented its veri boring... but to mi it seems ok... perhaps tats when my previous CLDDS trainning came into good use ba...lol... the performance was suppose to make u feel tat u r in tang dynasty... wif the life and all the clothing..music and beautiful gals and nice music.... probaly tats wat keep mi awake oso:)

well took plenty of video of all these.. until my 2GB memory full sia....

the next day... found this juz outside the restaurant that we suppose to hav our breakfast...

its the ostrich...hey!! lay mi an egg... i want to see big eggs... too bad the big dinousaur egg already extinct,...so b4 u two oso go extinct into other ppl stomach..rem to giv mi some egg for sourvenier:)

hmm...some arty structure?

here's the view of the hua shan.... tat we r abt to set our foot to climb....

cool view eh?

hmm...b4 we strain our leg muscle... lets strain the tires first:)... they hav to put metal chains on the back wheels...if not mi and this nice bus will perish to the bottom of the mountain:)

wa... the view taken from inside the bus...:)

hmm...forgot to rotate this pic....

the water got frozen even b4 it could flow down the mountain...errm any1 daring enuf to pee and see whether the yellow liq will oso get frozen?....lol

ok after we alight from the bus...the us suppose to take us to the cable car station...where we take the cable car to a certain height b4 we begin climbing...cos some parts r closed...and if will take too long to start climbing from the bottom...but in total we still hav to climb for 3-4 hours....

ok this pic is taken after we got down from the cable and began climbing for some time le.... its still got a long way...damn shack sia... so we took our first pit stop....

scenary from the first pit stop..the climb is not tat easy... the path is veri narrow... and barriers are juz below ur waist level....so if u fall...think tats the end.... and the path and steps are slipper...all covered wif ice/snow... and the extreme cold weather.... so it became the most rewarding experience after u conquered this hua shan:)

yeah we begin to move off.... we choose to scale to the highest summit... got nan feng, bei feng and dong feng.... of which the highest is the nan feng...and tats where we r going....!!!!

creally climb our vomit blood...even really went on all 4 limbs to climb.... my legs reallly cant take it sia.... really pull until every single strand in my muscle almost snap sia....singapore vertical marathon... tats nothing sia... climb the beijing great wall of china...tats oso nothing... this is then the real killer!!!!

finally....at the nan feng summit!!!! the scenary from here is so shiok sia....:)

cool man.~~

another view from the summit:)

the Great stone... climb like hell juz for this stone...

take ic take pic... where's my sword? no sword hw to hua shan lun jian?....lol:)

wooo....

see the height of the barrier? heng i never drop down:)

yeah cool take:)

on our way down....

Gotcha:)

the scenary when we moving down....

hmm...think this is another pit stop?

haha at the bottom of the mountain le...the pressure is so power until my water bottle kena sweeze sia....

even ice oso can form inside the water bottle which is kept deep in my bag.... wonder wats the temp....

yeah the dumpling feast!!!

night life in xi'an....

haha we too tired to club...so juz walk around to see...in the end think our hotel room is the most warming and comfortable place to be:)

haha its the next dae... another highlight!! the bing ma yong... the place where the Qin emperor bury himself wif all the troops and horses...

here's the bronze section....

Its history comes alive.... cant believe it... we r looking at the real thing... no glass or any barrier... but of cos if u jump down then probably can come up again.. unless u r olympic high jump record holder...lol