The following morning the cramped three (3) car hotel car park provides just enough space to carry out a motorcycle service, engine oil is replaced, oil filter is replaced, air filter is replaced and the existing chain adjusted. Carefully pouring the old engine oil into empty water bottles while trying to avoid any black stained concrete, I am a little concerned about where to responsibly dispose of the waste. I place the black sludge filled bottles to one side while completing the service and within minutes a man rides up on his tricycle with what resembles a Ute tray on the back, gathers up the waste oil bottles and promptly departs, job done.
Cleaned up and ready for a bit of sight seeing I hire a bicycle and spend the afternoon cycling fourteen (14) kilometres around the top of Xian City Wall and then visit the Grand Mosque in the Muslim quarter.
The following day I visit one of China's better known attractions, situated on farmland thirty (30) kilometre's out of Xian, with it's own specially built Tollway providing easy access, the Terracotta Warriors were high on my list of must sees in China. I spend a couple of hours walking through several warehouse type structures built over the site discovered by a farmer, who while digging a well for a water supply not so many years ago unearthed the treasure. The farmer now sits at a desk on site, autographs souvenir books, lives in an apartment and travels at will, all paid for by the Government since taking possession of his land.
Back in Xian I visit Wild Goose Pagoda and prepare for departure towards Shanxi Province the following day.
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