lost or what?

The whole wall is also surrounded by a moat, the area between the moat and the wall is a huge park. I peered over the edge numerous times and saw dancing, ping pong, badmington, painting in the park, running, opera etc. I yelled insults at them all knowing I was safe on my fortified wall.

This is the southern gate where you get on the wall. You can get on and off at a lot of places, but apparently this is the biggest gate. They frequently have performances here and in front of it. I found out later there was some kind of advertising event at the northern gate, and by the time I got back to the southern gate that was closed off also for an outdoor concert.

I have no idea what this is, befouling my wall. Get this crap off here!

Time to head off into the sunset, target number 1, those 3 buildings on the horizon.

I made it to the south eastern corner, here is the view back from where I had come.

Everywhere you look in Xian, its nice!

Time to get cracking on the next part of the epic journey. There are of course public toilets every few hundred metres, and also a few little cafes.

Here is the western gate. You will soon realise the gates are similar.

Each gate has 2 structures and a big hole in the middle. Even when this was built in 1300 they enjoyed outdoor shows.

I now ran for a while, sunset was approaching.

Heres a main road outside the city walls, heading west. This is not where the main big buildings are, those far to the south of the old city were a lot bigger. Xian is huge.

I arrived at the golden palace, looked over, saw 3 Lamborghinis go past. Chinese people much prefer a Lambo to any other kind of fancy car. I think the owners lived in the golden temple area.

The wall going off into the horizon and beyond.

Very clear here after the rain, which stopped at about lunch time. I was surprised more people were not on the wall enjoying the sunset. I know I was.

Cool sign!

Here is a street heading through the old city, taken from near the north gate, looking south. How is everyones geography going? And when I say everyone, I mean my one reader, my mother?

This is the north gate. I think a launch of a make up brand was happening. You can rent out any of the gates for any purpose. I plan to shoot my next youtube unboxing video here.

Here we have a long exposure looking south from the old train station. Buses do a U turn here, hence the cool light trails.

I was here at the old station earlier to catch the bus to the terracotta warriors, only then I was at ground level. Now I am at wall level. I am happy to provide photos at multiple elevations for your viewing pleasure.

The red lights surround the entire wall. It is actually very dark, you have to watch out for the occasional cyclist. If I lived here I would run laps up here often, it is very quiet if you take a couple of steps back from the edge. There is also a building in the distance shooting lasers into the sky.

Looking East outside the wall, there are malls outside the wall as well. No shortage of malls in Xian!

As you can see, they light up all the towers, but not too brightly, just bright enough to let the invading forces know where to aim.

Except they did light this one up very brightly, and its pretty awesome. It was near here I got thrown off the wall just before returning to the South gate where I started, where there was now a concert in progress on the wall.

I descended and beat everyone at beer pong. Street beer pong no less.

Now this is what I call a telescope. The guy set up on the bridge in Melbourne needs to up his game.

It was very late by the time I got off the wall, dinner choices were limited, I ended up in a fast food joint, only it was noodles and dumplings fast food. It looks very clean, but the price for a huge bowl of soup and 6 huge steamed buns was alarmingly low, $3. Id prefer it if it were double the price!

The soup was indeed pretty average. Everything in it was overcooked. Probably better than undercooked or cold. I did not eat most of it, it was way too much food for $3.