Cafés in Tourist areas often shrink-wrap the plates to reassure you they are germ free. A bit like having the adhesive sticker on the toilet seat in the hostel, saying "Sanitised".
In X'ian a nice Chinese tourist operator called "Peter" took us to see the Neolithic Village excavation site and museum. These are two dead Neolithic people. They had cool houses.
Then he took us to the Excavation site of the Terracotta Warriors. It was big.
After X'ian we caught a 16 hr soft sleeper to Chengu, as all the flights were booked. It was a 4 berth compartment. 3 of us and a 20's something Chinese man with a tennis racquet. He and I has the top bunks. It was good to see some countryside. This hilly area was pretty.
The waters ran fast as it had been raining, and the hills have a lot of run off into narrow valleys.
The hostels we stayed in had pretty courtyards, sometimes open to the rain.
One morning I heard birds singing. But they were in cages.
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