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24 Oct 2017
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We has some lunch at the hotel and then Mr Tang dropped us at the old city gates about 2 km away. We spent the rest of the day and into the evening wandering the old city.
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Bird fortune teller!
 China Pingyau Acient City by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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24 Oct 2017
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In the dark you can loose your bearing here and we were glad to have an iPhone compass to find the “north city gate” in the dark.
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25 Oct 2017
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We awoke to a lot of yelling in Chinese at 630. Apparently an entire bus of Chinese tourists had checked in here as well. We and the bikes are filthy after the rain and dirty roads yesterday. It is almost impossible to get laundry done here. We have hand washed the clothes, but the suits need a machine. A car wash for the bikes is a much easier thing….maybe we will just pressure wash ourselves?! We set out at 730 and made the toll entry like pros.
 FILE1308 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We have 502 km to ride to Xi’an, which is where the Terracotta Warriors are found.
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Again they will sell you gas for the bike at the pump at the highway stations where bikes are not permitted!
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25 Oct 2017
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We made another stop after 180 km and got gas since it is easy on the highway to use the pump.
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The plan was to go to the hotel, which was booked on the outskirts of the city, but near the metro. The Terracotta Museum is 30 km north east of the city. The city air quality is visibly terrible and much worse than elsewhere we have been. Arriving to the city it was enveloped in smog. I am not sue how anyone can live here. The traffic was not to heavy and we had no trouble getting to our hotel. We had a few hours to relax and the after getting some local advice we walked about 15 min to a packed restaurant for another amazing meal.
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25 Oct 2017
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Our driver is down with the gout, but he will deliver us to the Warriors at 830. This is about 45 min away on the freeway. The place is mobbed with Chinese and a few foreign tourists. We had several hours to explore the excavated areas.
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25 Oct 2017
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We needed to wash the bikes they are filthy and this took over an hour for 4 bikes (with a few cars interspersed) at the shop next to the hotel.
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Then it was 415 when we finally set out for the metro to downtown. This takes 45 min and by the time we had walked 700 m to the museum we were told it was too crowded today and we could not get in (today there were 12,000 visitors). Disappointing as it is supposed to be very nice with artifacts from several thousand years of Chinese history. Again we could not find a cab that would take us the 5 km to the city center and after walking 2 km we got on a city bus to the Bell tower.
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28 Oct 2017
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Near here is the Muslim quarter, which is a number of streets packed with people and even kind of street food and souvenir.
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31 Oct 2017
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We stopped after 2 hours for breakfast and were making good time until we ran into G70 construction and the road was diverted onto the secondary road. We are pretty sure one of the drivers who was following us reported us to the toll booth as they were out in force to prevent us from getting back on the highway. Much yelling in Chinese and we had to turn around. The detour was thru an apple growing region and each fruit was individually bagged for protection.
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We went up and over a mountain range and on the down side there was some kamikaze trucks passing each other. There was a huge collection of trucks at the toll and when we drove up on the right 4 agents were blocking the way. We went to the next access point, but they had obviously called ahead as the police were there too. They were very nice and spoke English. They said they had called further ahead and “thanks for helping us by turning around and going not the side road”. This was not too bad except the average speed on what is supposed to be a bigger milage day.
There are a few villages, but also long stretches where you can get some speed. Passing the small trucks loaded with corn was a challenge.
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31 Oct 2017
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We passed a few entry points to the G70 and then took the bypass road around Pingliang. Just after here we easily made it on to the highway, but there was 3 separate toll stations over the next 15 km. Then we had several very long tunnels. We exited from a 10 km one to find comparatively clear horizons. The pollution level has dropped 90% and we can actually see our surroundings.
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We met up with our guide and driver finally at the service centre at Jingning 130 km from Dinxi. The last part we were on the G22 and there are no tolls until the city, but getting off here was a tight squeeze beside the trucks. We are staying in a hotel owned by the Electric company. A bit run down, but easy access and exit from the city.
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