Xiangzimen Int'l Youth Hostel.
seriously the coolest hostel ever. totally old china architecture. it was just one big long hostel. the pictures were taken as i just walked through the hostel, so they're in order. first you walk in and you're in the lobby (theres not a picture of it sorry) then you go outside to a courtyard with a little table. then the second building (which i think just had maintenance rooms), then over a stepping stone outside to the third building. first its an eating area then it opens up to the rooms, stairs on bother sides of the room. we were on the second floor, bathrooms were down the hall and showers on the third floor. then still downstairs if you kept walking you go into the bar/lounge/restuarant (which had way way good food) then out the other side of the hostel and you pretty much are face to face with the city wall.
Xi'an,
this is downtown xi'an, within the city walls. it was full of huge shopping centers and huge malls and way high fashion stores like prada, gucci and whatnot. this guy at our hostel told us to go to muslim street. and thats pretty much where we spent all of our time. it was a long road and then there was a huge long ally of bargaining booths set up. it was way fun. we felt like we were back at yangshuo. and there was some way good muslim food too. we tried these pita bread things covered in spices and then there a picture of this thin tortilla filled thing we had that was deep fried. soo good. we can definately tell we're not in the south anymore. the north is famous for its spices. but we spent most of our time there and found another side street called city god temple street where shrines and a temple were located in the farthest part of the street. you get around going through underground sidewalks. it looks like it'd be a subway or something but its just huge halls. but we instantly fell in love with xi'an and it was a hard place to leave.
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