Explore each city's best places for eating, shopping and nightlife. Customize a tour for you and your friends at no extra cost. Discreet, individual tours for discerning travelers. Gay and lesbian-friendly, professional licensed tour guides in Xi'an. Navigating the local gay scene is easy with our interactive Utopia Map of Gay & Lesbian Xian (special thanks to radialhead!): Use common sense when chatting up a new friend. The local gay scene has a fair share of university students visiting its gay hangouts.īars, saunas and cruising areas are often the haunts of handsome and particularly rough trade who will lie, cheat and steal. Local gays are Internet savvy and most are adept at connecting online.
Xian is home to dozens of universities and a multitude of software colleges and companies.
Go inside the store, walk to the end then go up the stairs to 3/F and 4/F where you will find the English maps and books. Your landmark is the big Li-Ning sports store in front. Try the Xi'an Foreign Language Bookstore located in Dong Dajie (East St) in downtown. If you don't have a local to tour you to the gay bars and hangouts, it's better to have an English-translated map of the city. The population is nearing 7 million (so about a quarter million Utopians live here). Yes, the air is smoggy, but so was Los Angeles up until the late 1980s. The old Muslim Quarter is particularly colorful and worth exploring on foot. Yet Xian's public spaces and charming alleyways manage to appear more authentically "Chinese" than Beijing's grandiose plazas and avenues. Much of this history remains buried, either literally - in the dirt surrounding regal burial mounds which dot the rural countryside - or amidst the sky-rise development that has swallowed much of the city. Xian (often spelled as Xi'an and pronounced "she ahn") was the ancient imperial capital of China for over 11 centuries.
XIAN (Shaanxi Province) - area code +86-29 Special thanks to Ja圜ool, radialhead, JoshJack, singslave, InDeeper, Tao, Stan S., Gary and Puyi! Help us keep these listings current and correct.