Thursday, January 15, 2009

The City Wall of Xian










Today we visited the City Wall. Our tour guide and I raced to the top! If you are wondering who won, it was me.

It was so cool looking out over the wall. We saw an old cannon. There was a drawbridge that was drawn up during war time and at night time. The slits for the arrows were 120 meters from where the enemy would shoot arrows. At one time the city wall circled the entire city but now part of it is destroyed. A long time ago it was guarded with archers, cannons and slingers.

By the way, on the 25th their Chinese New Year will begin, it will be the Year Of The Ox.

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