Xi'an is quite modern with lots and I mean, a HUGE amount of shops. Plus a large amount of McDonalds and KFC outlets! But it also has the traditional roofed buildings that you see on postcards of China, temples, pagodas and the Terracotta Army as a major draw. Xi'an is great and I really liked it despite the fact that the taxi and bus drivers drive like lunatics here - and that's saying something after some of the Asian cities I've been to!Now I've kind of got used to surreal things happening by now but a trip to Starbucks (the native breakfasts here are top of my list for being unedible for Western palates) delivered a corker. Two of us were sitting having a drink looking out onto a modern shopping mall and a small garden area when a van drew up. Two soldiers got out with (rhymes with buns) and approached Starbucks and we thought "Uh, oh, what's up?" One stayed outside, sat down and laid his A K 47 on a table whilst the other came inside with his A K 47 and.......ordered coffee! I did manage to get a pic of this moment (see link below)....without being noticed of course.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/PocketGem/ChinaXiAn#
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