Xian is one of the few cities that still have their city wall intact. It runs 8 miles around the whole Inner city. The early walls were built before cement, so they used sticky rice and lime to hold the bricks together. The Drum and Bell Towers are inside the walls. Here we had opportunities to climb some more steps and to take more photos in the smog/smoke filled city. After the City Wall we had to fulfill the ‘factory tour’ quota of the day so we had a Pottery Factory Tour. The factory tour part wasn’t very informative it was just to lead you to their store.
We passed farmland on our way to the Terra Cotta Warriors which had lots of hand cultivated field corn. They dry the corn by spreading the kernel across the cement sidewalks or by hanging the cobs off the roofs of their houses. I hope Richard the professional photographer in our group took pictures of these scenes they really were very unusual looking but we were going too fast to take a picture
