Xi’an Trip Overview
Enjoy an immersive Chinese cultural experience on this private day tour in Xi’an, including the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Terracotta Warriors Museum. With your professional English speaking guide, you’ll also visit 1200years old Great Mosque and the famous Muslim Quarter in the morning. Learn with the master to make a small copy of Terracotta Warriors and take it back home as a souvenir.Visit the 600years old Ming Dynasty City Wall in the afternoon. Yummy lunch and Round-trip hotel transport with a private driver is included.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Xi’an, China
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Enjoy an immersive Chinese cultural experience on this private day tour in Xi’an, including the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Terracotta Warriors Museum. With your professional English speaking guide, you’ll also visit 1200years old Great Mosque and the famous Muslim Quarter in the morning. Learn with the master to make a small copy of Terracotta Warriors and take it back home as a souvenir.Visit the 600years old Ming Dynasty City Wall in the afternoon. Yummy lunch and Round-trip hotel transport with a private driver is included.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Xi’an Mosque, Huajue Alley, Xincheng District, Xi’an 710043 China
In the morning,we can pick you up from your Xi’an hotel at downtown center, then drive to the famous Great Mosque which has history longer than 1200 years.Xi’an was ever the starting point of Silk Road in the history, so there are many Arabian businessman ever traveled to China and settled down here,there are more than 100,000 Muslim people here in the Muslim Quarter.
Visit the Great Mosque in the morning, it is very quiet and peaceful here, all the buildings inside the mosque were rebuilt in Ming Dynasty 600 years ago,the architecture is just like a traditional Chinese Garden,very beautiful and historical atmosphere.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, Qinling North Road, Lintong District, Xi’an 710600 China
After finish the visit of Great Mosque and Muslim Quarter,let’s drive one hour to the Terracotta Warriors museum. On the way to the museum,let’s go to the Terracotta Warriors reproduction center to follow a local famous master to learn how to make a small piece of Terracotta Warriors copy, you can also take it back home as a souvenir.The clay material to make the copy is the same material as the real Terracotta Warriors relics in the museum, so this will be a real interesting experience.
From here,let’s go to have a yummy lunch in a local popular restaurant nearby,Xi’an is very famous for yummy snacks food, the local noodle is very famous in China, let’s have the local noodle and other yummy dishes for lunch here.
After lunch,let’s drive to visit Terracotta Warriors museum which is world famous scenic spot,there are more than 8000 pieces of real-life sized Terracotta Warrior and potter horsed were excavated out from here in three burial pits. The whole underground army were buried for the first Chinese emperor to guard for him in the underground world for his after life. No any historical record mentioned the Terracotta Warriors army, until 1974, the local farmer dig the water well, then the underground army were found and well known as the eighth wonder of the world.
Duration: 5 hours
Stop At: Xi’an City Wall (Chengqiang), Zhongxin District, Xi’an 710001 China
From here,let’s drive back to visit Xi’an City Wall,which is also known as the Fortifications of Xi’an,it is the most complete city wall that has survived in China, as well being one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.
The wall now stands 12 meters (40 feet) tall, 12-14 meters (40-46 feet) wide at the top and 15-18 meters (50-60 feet) thick at the bottom. It covers 13.7 kilometers (8.5 miles) in length with a deep moat surrounding it. Every 120 meters, there is a rampart which extends out from the main wall. All together, there are 98 ramparts, which were built to defend against the enemy climbing up. Each rampart has a sentry building, in which the soldiers could protect the entire wall without exposing themselves to the enemy.
After finish the visit of City Wall, drive back to your hotel. Today’s tour will be finished then.
Duration: 2 hours
