For all of you Fodorites - check out the Travel channel tonight. Samantha Brown will be reporting on China - I think she will have shows on 3 consecutive nights.

Thanks for the tip

It was a good show!

Monica

Yes it was a good show but I wonder how many days they had to wait for the sun to break thru the smog so they could shoot? Front page article in my paper this morning on the air quality problem for the Olympics.

Speaking of the pollution - last nights show was filmed in Xian. Wow, the pollution was worse than what was shown on Monday's show of Beijing. I read some place that Xian has some of the worse pollution in China, which is why I changed my itinerary from 3 to 2 days in Xian. Get in, see the city and warriors and get out.

Monica

Yes in Xian you can even smell the acrid pollution in the air it is so bad. Your eyes will burn and your throat will get scratchy.....at least that is what happened to me and I was only there 1 1/2 days

Aloha!