Everyone warned us to stay away from the tourist sites during the National Day break since thousands of Chinese would mobilize to visit the exact same places. Still, we all wanted to see the Terracotta Army, so we decided to brave the crowd nonetheless.
After an hour bus ride turned into a two and a half hour trip due to the amount of traffic on the small dirt road, we finally arrived at the site only to find this:
In this picture, probably a hundred people are crowded around a glass case containing something (I didn't bother to squeeze through the crowd to find out what). Most of these people couldn't even see it, but they were holding their cameras above their heads just to get a picture of whatever is inside.
Finally, we arrived at the main pit of the site, where the majority of the army is located. The sight of all these figures was extraordinary, although it required a lot more crowd-maneuvering just to get a clear view.
Here are some more warriors from close up. The really amazing thing about these figures is that fact that each one has different facial characteristics, which has led to the belief that they were modeled after the emperor's actual army.
In addition to the soldiers, we saw this cool hummingbird-like moth collecting nectar from these flowers. It was really cool and the only part of the exhibit that wasn't insanely crowded.
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