Xian City Wall. South Gate. 
Bus load of tourists being greeted by relentless pedlers at South Gate.
Xian City Wall side entrance towards the North Gate.
Biking along Xian City Wall.
Dion biking on the wall.
Melisa having a pit stop.
Day 5 Xian City Wall.
Frances and Mr Wong took us to the old part of Xian where the old city wall is. The walls are high and are in the shape of a square with people still living their daily lives inside it. We drove to the South Gate to take photos and then drove to the North Gate to climb up onto the wall. We hired bicycles and biked over 13kms around the whole wall. It took an hour of biking and it was hot and difficult in places but so much fun. There were rickshaws up on the wall giving tourists the lazy option of seeing it but we thought biking was more fun. In the centre of the walled city is a bell tower and outside of the wall is a moat. Afterwards we went to have lunch at the airport before flying out. Our plane from Xian to Beijing was delayed and we had to sit in the plane on the tarmac for over an hour. We finally got to Beijing and because the pilot had flown higher than normal we were able to catch our connecting flight from Beijing to Korea. We said a sad farewell to beautiful China and flew back to hot humid Korea.
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