Ok so the guidebook I have for China I got cheap in Oz and it happens to be 8 years out of date. So I'd read in the book it took 8 hours to get to Xi'an from the Shoulin temple and I went and asked for a sleeper train ticket... now getting tickets is confusing enough but it turned out there's a new train in town it goes 350km/hr and only takes 2 hours so the lady behind the desk had no idea why I wanted a sleeper train ticket! This is me with the super fast train in Xi'an.