Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Terracotta Factory-Xian

This is one of the places we visited after the Banpo Matriarchal Village . In all the excitement, I missed posting this one...Lets take a small tour of this factory that makes and sells terracotta artifacts and souvenirs...

Right at the entrance huge Terracotta warriors greet us and we can also click pics as warrior!



 That is hubby posing as a warrior and behind him, Lil Angel is running off to check out the place by herself!

They have a live demo of the work in progress....



Once you are inside the factory, you can see a huge number of men and women making models of various sizes ranging from warriors, dragons an other souvenirs.



All through the corridor, the models are seen in various stages of completion....






The finished products are kept for shelves ready to hit the stores....



As you walk inside, there is a room full of paintings and you can actually watch an artist at work,without disturbing them,of course!



One of the painting that was on sale...


This leads to a shop, a huge one actually with plenty of artifacts and souvenirs....We got this box of miniature warriors....



Some hand painted tiles..Very pricey!


Hand crafted boxes.....



Handcrafted chopstick....


Glass figurines....



And there is my hero standing midst the warriors....Yes, there are life sized statues to adorn your room / garden....




After this we went to the  Huaqing hot springs....

Let go there now....





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