Today we started at the city wall with a Tai Chi Chuan lesson. We met the Tai Chi master just inside the gates to the wall and he performed some of the moves for us and then showed us how to do them. It was quite fun!

Afterwards we walked up to the top of the wall. The wall was originally built in the old Ming Dynasty and is about 45 feet wide, 40 feet tall and covers 8.5 miles. We only walked a short distance. They were actually filming a local show on the wall describing the city and some of the local customs. We have seen a fair number of traveling groups made up of all Chinese people. While we in the US travel in our own country, we tend to do so independently. How, the Chinese tend to take tours.

After the Wall, we toured the Bell tower. There is also a drum tower. The bell tower is in the center of the city and was used in the morning, whereas the drum tower is used in the evening.

From there we headed over to the Muslim Quarter where there were various stores selling all kinds of things including many food items on a stick!

Lunch was at a famous dumpling house. They made very creative dumplings in the shapes of different animals.

After lunch we headed to the train station and took the bullet train to Chengdu.