The Amazing Race

Kinsey’s Guide to Better Living:  Chapter Four:  Never eat cold chicken feet in China!!  This is for your own good!

As you saw in the video, we had our own version of The Amazing Race!!  Team Swedish Fish (surprisingly the Swedes had no idea what these are) against Team Fab in a race against time to get to the Terracotta Warriors from our hostel at 9:30am.  Team Swedish Fish booked a tour and Team Fab fabulously figured it out on their own.  Winners get free beer from losers!!  The side you didn’t see was team Swedish Fish.  To their dismay they had two excursions, one to a Terracotta Warrior figurine factory and another to a crappy, expensive café for lunch that were both in cahoots with the tour guides!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!  Thus, costing them the win and the free beer!!  Boy did those Tsingtaos taste yuuuummy!!!

Honestly, the Warriors were cool… for about five minutes!!  When you first enter Pit One you are hit by the enormity of the efforts put into fabricating this enormous archaeological find!!  Each and every warrior is different.  They all have different faces and uniforms based on their status in the army!!  It was really cool to see but after five or ten minutes of elbowing your way through hundreds of tourists it starts to get on your nerves!  And really, the warriors aren’t doing anything they just stand there, though it is a feet in itself since they are over two thousand years old!!

The other pits really had nothing in them other than a few broken pots and bricks!!  To our surprise everyone was standing around snapping away at the dust and dirt!!!  We split that hot dog joint and hit up an ice cream stand before heading back to the bus!

Chelsea’s Quick Tips:  How to get to the Terracotta Warriors (without a Guide)

1. Get to the train station just outside the North Gate.

2. Take one of the Many green 306 buses, most labeled Terracotta Warriors.

3. Arrive!!