Xi'an City Wall

On Monday I went to the city wall, and took a bunch of photos. I'd originally planned to go to Wild Goose Pagoda with Dane (a classmate from my TESOL course, now working in the same city as me), but we spent so long finding a place to have lunch that we ran out of time, and the city wall was closer. Since I hadn't planned on this, I didn't have my camera - these photos are from my phone.

A few Chinese girls coming down the stairs as we came in:


This is what all the rubbish bins inside the wall looked like. I didn't recognise it as a bin at first; disappointingly, it's made of plastic, not metal.


The wall is stable! Honest!


A street just inside the wall, as seen from the wall. The houses along the street all have this nice quaint design, unlike the bricklike high-rises more common around Xi'an.


This is a view of one side of the South gate. There are several gates in the wall, but there is a main one at about the middle of each of the four sides of the wall. This is only one half of the gate, because Northbound and Southbound traffic go through separate tunnels through the wall, and I'm shooting from the middle.


This is the top of the wall. This gives you a little idea of how wide it is, and how long. The top of the wall is about the only place in Xi'an you have an unbroken line of sight for any great distance.


The building in the silhouette is directly over the South gate. I don't think it's any kind of temple (all the surviving ancient buildings seem to be temples), so I guess it is a gatehouse of some kind.