Off the train into X'ian

We got off the train in X'ian, it goes on to Beijing, but we had places to see! We were back in China, home of the pagoda and yeah, truth be told a bit of haze. Our first stop was the Big Goose Pagoda, which apparently has a set of footprints and a piece of bone of Sakayamuni himself. The pagoda is of an older more Indian style before they became Chinese influenced with all of the swoops and dragons etc.

X'ian was the capital of China for hundreds of years. They walled the entire city to protect them from outsiders. The X'ian wall is intact still. The whole dang thing. It goes 14K around the center of the city. You can walk and ride bikes on top of the entire thing.