🇨🇳 The Greatest Discoveries of the 20th Century. Terracotta Army.

We have to take two subways and a bus to get to the Terracotta Army Museum. We notice another foreigner on the bus, but the bus driver is still surprised about us — “Foreigners have boarded, too!” he exclaims. It isn’t easy to buy the museum tickets. You see, during the Covid era, there is no such ticket office. Everything must be bought online. We need to find the right homepage and the right payment method. It’s good that we had stopped by our Chinese friend on the way to Xian, and she could help us.

I remember how difficult it was in China the first time we wanted to enter the palaces in Beijing. No ticket booths around. Only the barcodes that needed to be scanned. How to do it? How to pay? We didn’t have the Chinese application WeChat then. Now I can’t even imagine traveling in China without it.

But now we are here, in front of the Terracotta Army Museum. One of the park employees stops us and says she will help us to go through the checks. Yes, the park is big and there are many checkpoints — two separate places where to show the passports, another place where to show Covid test results, and, of course, the ticket check, too. After going through all of those, the lady offers her guide services. I had read that tourists are tricked here, and I already know all the prices for extra services. But the…