The skies opened and it is pouring rain. Fortunately that will not slow the visit to the warriors as they are inside. This visit underscores that no matter how often one has seen this on Discovery there is so much more to be learned by seeing it in person.
They are still working excavating and reconstructing the figures. Wendi said when she was 6 when she first saw them and there were 2 complete, she is 26 . Now with computer mapping they only take 3 months to reconstruct a warrior. It used to take up to 3 years
Warriors in progress.
Finished waiting to be re installed exactly where the fragments were found.
Use your imagination to see these figures all painted in life like colors. With in a few months after being unearthed the orginal colors fade to nothing. All of them held real bronze weapons.
One of three found intact. Look at the tread on his shoe.
Bronze chariots
Well well. Look who's here.
After the warriors we visited a gorgous museum in the city filled with bronze and pottery funerary items.
Ode to Ambien
I cannot go on without extolling the virtue of the roll 10 mg of Ambien play in making this trip happen. Every night we fall asleep like zombies 1 to 2 hours later, wide awake. Pop a pill and 6 hours later we are ready to hit the trail. An eleven hour time difference is not to be sneezed at.
Tomorrow we fly out of the pollution and cool weather much further south to the foot hills of the Himalayas.
There is a lot of talk about the air pollution here and actually the air quality for Beijing was quite good to excellent while we were there but to us it really is depressing. Eyes and noses burn and it is gloomy, no sun, everything covered with a greasy looking film. Xi'an was bad before the rain and driving through a tunnel truly horrible. Today is rain all day so it feels cleaner. I cannot imagine really bad air days. 300 to 500 is common and we only had 160 count.
That being said from our hotel window we can count 20 construction cranes and the guides seem to pay little thought to air quality because they are booming.
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