7th April – Arrive Xian

Arrive Xian and our hostel comes to pick us up from the train station which was fab cos both feeling half asleep after not much train sleep. So we check in, they show us to our room (its only about 7:30) nd say have a good rest...so id say we looked pretty shot. Den still not great but hostel beds are comfy as...white duvets seem to be the norm here which is nice change from random indian blankets. the linen always seems super clean. Funny smelling toliet again and dodge shower but a funky hostel and nice cafe to hang out at. with coffee and toast! yum. den still not great today so spent the day catchin up on sleep and chilling out. Did vetnure out and buy our 8 hour train tickets to Wudangshan...dens pick, i have no idea what is there, but he can never remember the name. Hopefully the tickets are ok. Find the supermarket, very nice and i finally get some hand cream, YAY!! full of jackie chan endorsed green tea in bottles and chips displayed between the escalators.
Dinner tonight, well we got a tad lost , den still not got his internal compass right and ended up for an unintended long walk. ut found a dumpling restaurant which apparently Xian is somewhat a bit famous for. I've never ave dumpling befores...cept these duck things you get at Wagamamas and these chinese ones are all steamed so they're all pale nd you have NO idea whats in them. NO english and we had no idea what the woman was saying so randomly picked 2 lots from the menu and hoped for the best. the beer was right and cold. A chinese man across from us was laughing at us struggling and we all had a good laugh about it. dumplings turned out to be great and i pesonally really enjoyed them. Kind of like ravioli...its kinda of pasta with stuff. one had pork and spring onions and then the other was chicken with garlic and ginger..YUM! you dip them in this sauce with is chilli, vinegar and soy sauce. anyways i loved them but den wasn't entirely convinced. Feel really good we had some local food and the place was filled with chinese.