Yesterday our guide Henry took us to the famous Terracotta army. It is “golden week” here in China, which means that generally speaking everybody in the whole country has a week off from work. In Holland with our 16 million inhabitants we found it smart to spread our countries holidays such that not everybody would be off at the same time. To me it is a mystery why a country with over 1.3 billion inhabitants could not come up with a similar idea.

The golden week could just as well have been translated as “sea of black”, which is basically what I see around me the entire day, looking down on the huge amounts of Chinese everywhere.

My Chinese name has become ”Liang Mi”, which means two meters. Luckily with those two meters I can easily look over the crowds and still take pictures of the sights.

The terracotta army was really amazing. The hundreds of warriors that they have dug up (there are still thousands under the ground) are impressive. Each warrior is very detailed and every single one of them looks different.

We are very happy with our guide who’s English is very good and enthusiastically explains everything about the places we visit. Without him this trip would have been only half as interesting.