I forgot to mention in the Xi'an to Chengdu post - about 5-6am when it was starting to become full light, Courtney and I were peering out the window as naturally sleep on the train is completely evasive.
What we saw was some absolutely beautiful landscape. One of the things i have loved about going between places by train is we have been able to see some really different landscape. Outside of Beijing some interesting farmland - outside of Xi'an, lots of layered farmland - but different - a lot browner/a lot more dirt.
Between Xi'an -> Chengdu - man we passed through some awesome Mountains with a really large brown river flowing in the valley between them. The train tracks seemed to follow this valley from start to finish - located on the base of these rocky mountains. It was just so beautiful and interesting to watch. We tried to snap off a few photographs but they didn't come out very well.
The train kept passing through tunnels through the mountains themselves but we could mostly just follow the course of the river - both of us watching with somewhat awe.
It was just so interesting. All the way along it were levels of crops, farmers steering oxen like animals, small houses perched along the hillsides - at one place a large rockslide where the rock was mostly white but with a deep red colour through the middle, almost as if it had been painted.
I have absolutely no idea where this place was, nor the rivers name, but it was fantastic being able to just randomly see it.
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