Yes, Sarmad, THE terracotta soldiers. Cool huh?

And cheap food is love. I'm getting nice and rotund from it.

I'm in Yannan right now. It's a bustling, urban city literally in the middle of nowhere. We drove for 8 hours, and as we drove we were going deeper and higher into the mountains. And all of a sudden we're in the middle of this modern metropolis.

I don't think I've ever been stared at more in my life. Since we're a lot more inland the people here don't get very many foreigners, so when we're all talking in a group on the street, a small crowd will literally gather around us and they'll just stare. It's quite funny really. They stare at my traveling companions because they're white, and they stare at me because I know them. And when we're walking down the street and talking in English, the people in front of us will turn around and stare. It's funny how they have no shame in staring. I suppose they don't think it's rude. And since we find it amusing and not rude I don't suppose it's a problem then. haha

Anyways, this internet cafe I'm in is a lot less sketchy. It's still on the third floor of an unmarked building, and it's still full of boys and men playing counterstrike...but at least it's nicely lit, is a lot cleaner, and has music playing in the background.

People in China smoke too much. I'm going to die from secondhand smoke.