WANT MORE WARRIORS

The first of our 3 excursions out of Xi'an was to see the famous Terracotta Warriors, which are just 40 mins drive from the city centre. We were excited to see them, after having heard so much about them, and we are glad we went to see them... but maybe we expected too much? We're not sure exactly why we were slightly disappointed, except that perhaps we thought there would be more of them? From the outside, you see this massive 'airplane hangar' type structure and from photos we'd seen, we expected it to be full of warriors. However, when you walk inside you realise that it's only partially full. In fact, it's more empty than full. Don't get us wrong, we know it is an amazing archeological discovery and we did enjoy learning the history behind it, but sometimes you can build your expections too high... and that's what we did here!