I wanted to see something new before I left China. But with so little time available I had to find something close to my hotel. So I went to see the Beidu Iron Tower (Ming dynasty?)
​Didi dropped me off near the site, but the gate from the street seemed securely locked. This wouldn’t have been the first time I arrived somewhere “after hours”!
​I saw a man coming out of a nearby building. In answer to my question her gestured toward a gate at the adjoining building and told me to just push on the gate. Well, although this new gate looked very securely locked, all it took was a little ttle push to open it and go inside. Then another ” locked” gate seemed to prevent getting to the area of the tower. Well, I pushed and pulled, and that gate magically opened too!
Cool!

Well this Iron Tower is certainly not the #1attraction in the Xi’an area, but I thought it was pretty interesting (especially after the “Iron Pagoda” in Kaifeng that wasn’t really iron!)

It looks as is on a good day, you can even get inside this tower and perhaps climb up. But the gate around the base actually was locked!

So I enjoyed looking around the outside, and then ordered another car from Didi to take me back to the hotel.🙂👍