World Cities

So after browsing and getting familiar with some different blogs on this site pertaining to culture, nature, and photography, I came across a blog that focuses on giving people traveling tips when visiting Somalia. For those of you that are interested the URL is http://somaliatips.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/cities/. Anyway, I thought it interesting and right up my alley to research some cities around the world that I would like to visit. I'm not necessarily interested in posting travel tips, but maybe interesting fun facts and the reasons why I would want to go to a particular area. So, that is my task which I will start shortly and relate in my next post. First up is Xi'an, Shaanxi, China...