Yinchuan Trip Overview
On this private tour, you can explore the UNESCO listed site of Western Xia Tombs with an informative guide, who shares stories about the layout, burial ways, building techniques and arts of the imperial mausoleum; Get to know the Tangut civilization. Then visit the Yuan Dynasty 108 Pagodas at Qinglong Gorge where you can enjoy amazing view of the Yellow River and surrounding Mountains. Tour includes English speaking tour guide, private vehicle, entrance fee and lunch. Yinchuan hotel pick up and drop off also included.
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Duration: 6 to 8 hours
Starts: Yinchuan, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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On this private tour, you can explore the UNESCO listed site of Western Xia Tombs with an informative guide, who shares stories about the layout, burial ways, building techniques and arts of the imperial mausoleum; Get to know the Tangut civilization. Then visit the Yuan Dynasty 108 Pagodas at Qinglong Gorge where you can enjoy amazing view of the Yellow River and surrounding Mountains. Tour includes English speaking tour guide, private vehicle, entrance fee and lunch. Yinchuan hotel pick up and drop off also included.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Western Xia Shihua Statue Museum, Near Jiefang West Street, Xixia District, Yinchuan 750021 China
Your English speaking guide and private car will pick you up in your hotel’s lobby. Then heading directly to Western Xia Tombs. On the way, your tour guide will explain the related histories and stories, feel free to ask questions if you have.
Your first stop is the Western Xia Museum. Follow your tour guide, get to know the splendid history and culture of the West Xia Dynasty (1038-1227). You will see cultural relics like stone horses, tablets, porcelains, Buddhist sutras, paintings, statues etc.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Western Xia Palace, Jinshui Tourist Area Xixia District, Yinchuan 750021 China
Move on to Western Xia Tablets Forest. Stroll around the area, check out different tablets which tells the stories and histories about the dynasty.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Western Xia Imperial Tombs, East Foot of Helan Mountain, West 35 Km from Yinchuan, Yinchuan 750200 China
Western Xia Tombs are the royal mausoleums of the emperors in the Western Xia Dynasty (1038-1227), the Tombs are the best-preserved historic cultural heritage representing the Tangut civilization at the largest scale and in the highest rank. It include 9 imperial mausoleums, 254 subordinate tombs, 1 site of large architectural complex and more than 10 brick-and-tile kiln sites. Many unearthed funerary objects and the remaining cultural relics such as inscriptions, stone statues and building components take on vivid shapes, unique ornamentations, and living nomadic features. It was in the lists of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage.
Follow your tour guide to explore the tomb which including the tomb walls, tomb platforms, foundations and building components. You will visit Tomb No1, 2 and 3. Learn the layout, burial ways, building techniques and arts of the imperial mausoleum. Get to know the Tangut civilization, an ethnic minority civilization, prospering in an agricultural-husbandry area in Northwest China.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ningxia Qingtongxia 108 Tower, West of Qingtongxia Reservoir, Qingtongxia 751600 China
Enjoy lunch in the local restaurant, then heading to Qingtongxia where the 108 Pagodas is.
108 Pagodas were built in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). Follow your guide to enjoy an amazing view of the huge triangle from the top with each row containing an odd number of pagodas. 108 is really an idiomatic number in Buddhism. Buddhism says that there are 108 kinds of trouble and disasters for life, to eliminate all of them, people need to pray to Buddha for 108 times, knock a bell for 108 times, etc…Stroll around the area, admire the Yellow River and mountains around you.
After your tour finished, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Yinchuan
Duration: 1 hour
