Xian – 西安

Tuesday 31/07/2012: Xian - 西安

We left West Capital International Hotel  西京國際飯店 Xi1jing3guo2ji4fan4dian4 at 8:30 am and arrived at 11:40 am at the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum – 秦始皇帝陵博物館.

The site was discovered in 1974 and opened to the public in 1979. It has become part of the Unesco World Heritage in 1987.

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

At the end of July we went to Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (寧夏回族自治區). We (Yan and I) joined the Virtus Foundation to help select students in the capital of Ningxia, Yinchuan 銀川市.  We went to Shaohu 沙湖 and Shapotou 沙坡頭 and on our way back to Hong Kong we stopped in Xian 西安 to see the terracotta warriors.

I put details on the Virtus Foundation on my other blog. Herebelow are some photos of the places we went after the selection process had been carried out. This year 67 students have been awarded a scholarship to cover their 4-year university study.