On Friday, Aug. 29, we were awake at 5:30 am to catch our flight from Lanzhou to XiAn. It is about an hour drive just to get to the Lanzhou airport. We did get a box breakfast to eat on the ride to the airport. It is just an hour plane ride as XiAn is in a neighboring province.
After checking into the hotel, we had lunch, and then took a van to the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. This is a Buddhist site built in 652 AD to hold artifacts that a local Chinese monk brought back from India. He walked to India, studied Buddhism for several years, and then traveled back to XiAn to teach the locals.
On the pagoda grounds we attended a talk on Chinese calligraphy and painting. They also displayed some of the local artists paintings from very traditional to somewhat more contemporary.
For supper we had a dumpling feast. They put every type of food into the dumplings from chicken and pork to vegetables, and even cooked walnuts. It was very delicious.
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