I hiked up 13 floors at the small wild goose pagoda or Xiao (small) Yen (wild goose) Ta (pagoda) and took this panorama shot looking west. Nix and Christiana, two of my better English students, took us for tour of this park and pagoda and the Muslim Quarter section of Xi'an. The pagoda was damaged by earthquake in 1400 something, and has never been repaired. The park around the pagoda and the museum are remarkably beautiful.
In the Muslim Quarter, at the insistence of our guides, we ate mutton at a local restaurant. The dish was a mystery to us, but our fear of offending our hosts lead us to eat and enjoy (at least a little).
The Muslim section of town is notably chaotic and crowded, but with local students guiding us we managed to navigate around and sample some of the local cuisine.
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