Itinerary
Day 1: Flexibly choose 3 attractions according to your interests from below 5 optional itineraries:
Stop At: The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, Qinling North Road, Lintong District, Xi'an 710600 China
Meet your private guide and driver in your hotel lobby around 08:30 or you request time, one hour drive to Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum, around 3 hours enjoyable visit to museum pit 1, pit 2, pit 3 and Bronze Chariots all exhibition without any tourist factory stop.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta), Enci Temple The southern part of Yata Road, Yanta District, Xi'an 710061 China
Big Wild Goose Pogoda is considered as one of the Xi'an History landmarks,a Great Tang dynasty culture relics temple. Your private guide will tell you why the pogoda is leaning, the relationship between the "Silk Road"and Tang, what is the Buddhist philosophy and how today's China religion condition is. If your visit time is the chanting day, you will see a lot of monks and believers stay out changting in the yard.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Muslim Quarter, West of Bell Drum Towers Square , Beilin District, Xi'an 710000 China
Suggest to visit Muslim Market (or called Muslim Street) in the afternoon which is famous for Chinese style Halal food. You will follow your guide explore Muslim snacks along the crowded street with piles of limb skewers, yellow color sticky rice, colorful fruit ice cream, nuts candy, beef burger.....you may stay 1 hour here or longer based on your interest.
Muslim meal is one of your 2-day lunch options.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Xi'an Banpo Museum, North of Banpo Village, Baqiao District, Xi'an 710038 China
You will learn 6000 years old matriarchal clan information along the original village site which is devided into three parts: living house site, burial tombs site and pottery making kilns. A lot of vivid pictures,movie, models and media videos are also helpful to understand that special "girl power" time life.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Xi'an Mosque, Huajue Alley, Xincheng District, Xi'an 710043 China
This Mosque does not look like a Muslim Mosque from outside if you don't visit in. You will view a really beautiful garden Mosque with a lot of 600~1000 years old relics such as Song Dynasty rubbing, Ming dynasty tablets, Qing dynasty pavilion and the Pray Hall with traditional Chinese style.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Lunch: Local non-touristy Chinese food restaurant according to your requested.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Flexibly choose 3 attractions arrording to your interest from below 6 optional itineraries:
Stop At: Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang), Zhongxin District, Xi'an 710001 China
Follow your guide to climb up to the top of the 600 years old Ancient City Wall, and enjoy around 30 minutes comfortable and quietly walking or rent a bike do 30 minites to 2 hours cycling exercise on the top of the wall. You also will see local people's life such as City Wall morning market or relaxation moat park at the bottom of the Wall.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tomb of Emperor Jingdi (Hanyangling), Zhanjiawan Village, Xi'an China
This 1-hour museum visit is quite different, you will walk through the underground glass corridor to see the thousands of toy size pottery figurines laying on the bottom of the pits which were prepared for the 4th Han dynasty emperor Jingdi's after life.
Duration: 1 hour
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
Climb up to the top of Bell Tower to take a bird view of the downtown centre and city wall.
This is the best place to feel how Old Xi'an and New Xi'an grow together.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Drum Tower (Gulou), The Southern of Xi'an West Main Street Beiyuanmen,, Xi'an 710003 China
If you climb up to the top of Drum Tower, you not only see the whole muslim quater, you also will enjoy a short Bell and Drum playing show and Ming and Qing Dynasty antique furniture excibition.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Temple of the Eight Immortals (Ba Xian An), Wu Dao Shizi Dongjie, Xi'an China
This daoism/taoism temple is famous and popular for Xi'an local people who go there to pray, to listen monk chanting, to ask a fortune teller or to buy burial objects in the market nearby. You will see a lot of special selling stuff for the "dead".
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Xi'an Museum, 72 Youyi Xilu, Xi'an 710068 China
Located in Xi'an Small Wild Goose Pogoda garden, combines history, traditional culture and city garden art together, so you will not only see a Tang dynasty pogoda, you will also learn Xi'an 's history and Xi'an countryside folk culture.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch: Authentic Xi'an local food with local drink.
No accommodation included on this day.