Oh my goodness today has been an amazing day. I have taken as many photos of the warriors as there are actual warriors, roughly 6,000🤣

I won’t bore you too much so I’ve selected a chosen few🤔…. my few is lots and lots..

This is the hospital for poorly warriors that didn’t survive 2,000 years and needed some TLC

Plastic surgery 🤣🤣 (thanks Alex for the observation). The plastic isn’t actually to hold the bits together it’s to preserve what little colour there is.

Some lost their heads huh?

How the warriors were discovered..

The kneeling archer (behind glass cabinet)

And others..

There’s just so many..

There seemed to be people working on the excavation…

And the bronze chariots which weren’t life size ( from behind cabinets)

Just amazing

I apologise if I’ve uploaded the same picture twice… in took so many photos..

Then on to other things..

Xian by day/ night

And onto our meal and evening entertainment which was wonderful. I didn’t think I’d like the dumplings but I ate all but 1 of 10 which was the hedgehog and he’d got a baked walnut inside and judging by the look on Cheryl’ s face when she took a bite I decided to give it a miss🤣

There they are… the pesky hedgehogs😂😂😂

Everything else was supberb, even the frog and I ‘ate’ frogs… see what I did there🤣🤣

The nice bowl in the middle was the soup bowl and in it there were mini mini dumplings and according to Linda the guide because I had 3 in my supper soup it might I will have longevity, health and prosperity so that coupled with my wish to the emperor at the pagoda earlier in the week I should be a multimillionaire by the time I get home🤣🤣

The evening entertainment was wonderful