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Xi’an
Xi’an
Type: Sightseeing
Cost: $60
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Xi’an
Type: Sightseeing
Cost: $60
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A wander or a bike ride along Xi’an’s 40-foot-high city walls offers great vistas and, given that the walls are completely flat, it’s a much easier venture than many of the other walls you might ascend in China! From the 500-year-old walls you can see the thronging new city, yet remain comfortably and quietly removed from it all.
You can access the wall from any of the four major gates and can then walk, cycle or take an electric buggy (¥50 for the complete circuit of one hour and 10 mins or ¥5 for any one of the 15 sections). You can see as much or as little of its nine-mile circumference as you want.
Guides are available at ¥30 for half the wall, or ¥50 for the whole thing, but there’s little for them to point out beyond a basic introduction. 240 There are watchtowers on each of the four corners and major gates in the north, south, east and west – the East Gate is worth stopping off at to see the replicas of ancient military contraptions, including a giant catapult.
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