Persimmon cakes/Big Goose Pagoda/Forest of Stalae Museum

BTW....they say Xian is the beginning and the end of the Silk Road.  

The persimmon cakes were delicious.  I had one that was filled with rose infused peanuts.  MMMmmmm

The Big Goose Pagoda is Xian's most famous tourist attraction.  It's completed in AD652, it houses a bunch of Buddhist sutras brought back from India by the famous monk Xuan Zang, who spent 19 years with a team of monks translating the text and transporting it back to China...which was quite a feat at the time and his travels inspired one of China's most well know piece of literature, Journey to the West (which was also my favorite story when I was a kid...about a monk, a monkey, a pig...)

Forest of Stalae Museum houses some of the most famous inscribed tablets including the nine Confucian classics and some excellent examples of lost calligraphy.  There is a picture of a dude making ink transfers.

Still raining.