Xi’an Trip Overview
This 2 days exclusive private tour will allow you to visit 6 up to 8 different historical and cultural sites in Xi’an. With a professional English-speaking tour guide and a comfortable air-conditioned van, travelers can get around and visit places in a more easily and leisurely way. By the way, this itinerary includes couple of more places off the beaten tracks, so guests could see more in this ancient city and gain a great insight into the local area and life.
Most of the highlights in the city like the Terra Cotta Army Museum, Hanyangling Museum, local farmer’s cave dwelling, traditional Chinese medicine market, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Shaanxi History Museum, Xi’an Ancient City Wall, the Muslim Market, the Great Mosque, the Eight Immortals Temple and funeral market, or any other sightseeing sites within the city area are all in your option.
There are enough places of historic and cultural interests to keep even the most amateur historian and travelers reverted.
Additional Info
Duration: 8 to 9 hours
Starts: Xi’an, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
This 2 days exclusive private tour will allow you to visit 6 up to 8 different historical and cultural sites in Xi’an. With a professional English-speaking tour guide and a comfortable air-conditioned van, travelers can get around and visit places in a more easily and leisurely way. By the way, this itinerary includes couple of more places off the beaten tracks, so guests could see more in this ancient city and gain a great insight into the local area and life.
Most of the highlights in the city like the Terra Cotta Army Museum, Hanyangling Museum, local farmer’s cave dwelling, traditional Chinese medicine market, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Shaanxi History Museum, Xi’an Ancient City Wall, the Muslim Market, the Great Mosque, the Eight Immortals Temple and funeral market, or any other sightseeing sites within the city area are all in your option.
There are enough places of historic and cultural interests to keep even the most amateur historian and travelers reverted.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Xi’an, Xi’an, Shaanxi
Day 1:
Your tour guide will meet you in your hotel lobby at advised time and then drive to the Terra Cotta Army Museum in a comfortable air-conditioned van. In the museum, you are going to see 2,000 life size Terracotta Warriors and Horses in a real battle formation and can also see the bronze horses and chariots as special exhibition.
After that you will be guide to a local farmer’s traditional cave dwelling where you could have a look of the real country life and could understand more about the country and its people. It will be lunch time after these two places you will enjoy a tasty and cultural lunch in a nice local restaurant.
Spending another hour roaming in Huaqing Hot Spring Palace where emperors and concubines had hot spring spa during the grand Tang dynasty. The palace boasts the only hot spring museum in China and was a place that had witnessed the rise and decline of few dynasties in China, also a place for modern Chinese to seek the lost grandeur of the grand Tang Dynasty.
You will get a chance to explore a traditional Chinese medicine market before driving back to your hotel.
Duration: 9 hours
Stop At: Xi’an, Xi’an, Shaanxi
Day 2:
Hotel lobby pickup again in the morning and then head to Hanyangling Museum, also the Jingdi Emperor’s Mausoleum. It is quite possibly Xian’s most underrated highlight. Many of those burial objects have been found in the tomb area and now this mausoleum museum which combines modern technology, ancient civilization, historical culture. It is one of the most amazing museums in Xi’an.
After this guests will go to see Xi’an City Wall. Biking on the top of this complete wall is the real highlight for most of visitors. It will show you a broad vista of the past and present Xi’an City.
Lunch will be in a nice local restaurant with tasty food.
After lunch guests could stop at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and then explore the whole area. The Pagoda was fist built for housing Buddhist scriptures brought back to China from India by Master Xuanzang. He was the ultimate pilgrim who traveled altogether 17 years from 629 AD to 645 AD for searching original Buddha’s teaching. He was a great traveller and translator who contributed a lot for the culture exchanges between China and India in ancient time.
Muslim Quarter will be the last stop of the day before going back to your hotel. Roam around this vibrant and colourful area and visit the famous Great Mosque. Various of noises of those hawking vendors and buzzing scooters together with the hustling and bustling of visitors will make you feel that you are in a real China.
Duration: 9 hours
