Xian Shi Trip Overview
Cover ground you couldn’t hope to cover by bus or taxi over two fascinating days of door-to-door touring with a private guide. See two terracotta armies, one crafted for Qin Shi Huang, the second for a Han emperor. Walk on Xian City Wall, tour the Muslim Quarter, admire Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and Tang Dynasty Show. Accommodation is at your discretion: Upgrade to include Chinese restaurant lunches.
*See both terracotta armies: in Xian and the underground Han Yang Ling Museum Talk to locals through your private guide.
*Discover Xian’s historic highlights, including Tang Dynasty Show with Local food,the walls and the Muslim Quarter
*Take it easy with door-to-door round-trip private transfers on both days
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Xian Shi, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Xian Shi, Shaanxi Sheng, China
Cover ground you couldn’t hope to cover by bus or taxi over two fascinating days of door-to-door touring with a private guide. See two terracotta armies, one crafted for Qin Shi Huang, the second for a Han emperor. Walk on Xian City Wall, tour the Muslim Quarter, admire Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and Tang Dynasty Show. Accommodation is at your discretion: Upgrade to include Chinese restaurant lunches.
*See both terracotta armies: in Xian and the underground Han Yang Ling Museum Talk to locals through your private guide.
*Discover Xian’s historic highlights, including Tang Dynasty Show with Local food,the walls and the Muslim Quarter
*Take it easy with door-to-door round-trip private transfers on both days
Itinerary
Day 1: Hotel pick up at 9:00 a.m→Terracotta Warriors Museum → City Wall →Tang Dynasty Show→ Hotel drop off around 22:00
Stop At: The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, Qinling North Road, Lintong District, Xi’an 710600 China
You will arrive at Terracotta Warriors Museum. Your tour guide will take you through every important figures, horses or weapons. By examining the terracotta figures discovered here, you can imagine how Qin soldiers looked like 2000 years ago. From the horse cart and weapons displayed, you will have an idea how these soldiers used to fight. If you look closely enough, you will discover that each figure has different facial expressions, which is very astonishing considering how many figures are there. Then, you will know how great this work must be and why the Terracotta Warriors Museum is regarded as the eighth wonder in the world.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Stop At: Xi’an City Wall (Chengqiang), Zhongxin District, Xi’an 710001 China
Visit a local family lives in Traditional Cave Dwelling. Your tour guide will introduce to you why people like to live here. Then, depart Terracotta Warriors and get back to the city. It takes about 50 minutes to get back to City from the Terracotta Warriors museum, during which time you can have a little rest and be prepared for the afternoon tour. 15:00p.m: Visit the Ancient City Wall, there are two choices available. You can either walk or ride a bike, or even take a golf cart. This City Wall is the best preserved and most complete wall that has survived through China’s long history. It is about 12 meters high, 12 to 14 meters wide across the top and 15 to 18 meters thick at the bottom. The entire circumference is about 13.7 kilometers. It can take a while if you choose to walk all through.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Tang Dynasty Show, 75 North Chang’an Road, Xi’an 710065 China
The Dinner Show in the Shaanxi Grand Opera House is the most traditional dumpling banquet combined with the Tang dynasty show. The dinner will be the most traditional dumplings ,and this dumpling banquet contains some 16 courses of the different shaped dumplings with very different fillings inside, some will be made in the shape of a chicken, which indicates the fillings inside will be chicken meat, some will be made like a duck, meaning the filling is duck, so it will be an interesting and cultural eating experience. For the show, it’s called the Tang dynasty show, it’s known to all that Tang dynasty is the most prosperous and glorious society in the Chinese history, which is called the golden age, so this show fully shows the prosperity of the Tang empire in the field of the imperial life ,the art, religion ,music and so on by the means of graceful dancing and singing. From this show, you will see how beautiful and colorful costume in the Tang dynasty is, and how elegant the dance is.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Hotel pick up at 9:00 a.m→ Hanyangling Museum→ Big Wild Goose Pagoda → Bell and Drum Tower Square→Muslim Quarter
Stop At: Tomb of Emperor Jingdi (Hanyangling), Zhanjiawan Village, Xi’an China
09:00 p.m: Get ready to be picked up by your smiley tour guide. 09:30 – 12:00 p.m: Start your day tour with the only underground museum in China – Han yang ling Museum, also called Jing Di’s Tomb. It is located near the airport about 30 km north of Xian City. This is a burial sight for Emperor Jing Di and his wife Empress. This tomb could be dated back to 2,100 years ago. You will see some of the funeral goods such as pottery figurines dated back to Han Dynasty, Luojing Stone that was used for measurement, and all kinds of stela inscribed with words.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Stop At: Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta), Enci Temple The southern part of Yata Road, Yanta District, Xi’an 710061 China
13:40 – 15:30p.m: Your afternoon tour will start with a visit to Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It’s locate inside the Da Ci En temple. It was built in Tang Dynasty to store all the Buddhism sutra and Buddhism figures that Xuan Zang has brought back from India. It’s the biggest and also the earliest square pagoda that has been built. Now, it has been remodeled and enlarged like a large park. In the sunny days, local people usually come here and relax themselves. If you come here at night, you will see local people dancing, singing, children running, fountain show performing, and various small stalls setting up for local snacks.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Xi’an Bell Tower, Lianhu District Junction of East main street, west main street, south main street and north main street,, Xi’an 710000 China
15:50 – 16:20 p.m: Visit the symbol of Xian city – Square of Bell Tower and Drum Tower. In ancient times, the bell and the drum were used to strike time in the morning and at dusk because people didn’t have clocks or watches, so there is a saying ‘Morning Bell and Dusk Drum’ in Chinese. The two towers are the name card of Xi’an, as they are the best preserved all around China.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Muslim Quarter, West of Bell Drum Towers Square , Beilin District, Xi’an 710000 China
16:20 – 17:00 p.m: Wander in Muslim Quarter. As a block famous for its various food, although the Muslim Quarter is regarded as a tourism spot for the tourists coming from other places, the locals considered it as the place for snacks and entertainment. Especially in summer, you can find tons of local people having snacks and amusing themselves there. In fact, all the “Huifang” area is filled with restaurants, various Muslim food stalls, in which you can find the widely-praised old shops. In here, you can find the true Xian lifestyle. However, these places need your further discovery. 17:00 p.m: Finish your day tour and be back to your hotel.
Duration: 40 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.
