At Xi'an

Back again at the Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. This time I decided to climb the pagoda! The seven story wooden staircase gets narrower and narrower the higher you climb. Also, the ventilation inside is, well, it's a 16th century building. There is no ventilation inside! This made for some interesting states of undress with the foreign females attempting the climb.

It looks like the weather is overcast but it's not. It's smog and the heat and humidity is sweltering. The temperature outside is 100 million degrees!