Tour Features: By this tour you can visit the most famous museums in Shaanxi as well as other famed attractions such as Famen Temple, Qianling Mausoluem, Bell Tower and so on. Shaanxi Historical Museum is the largest comprehensive museum where the abundant collection will show you the splendid Chinese culture. The Terracotta Warrior Museum is the eighth wonder in the world.

Day by Day Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival in Xi'an (-, L, -)

Upon arrival in Xi'an, our tour guide will meet you at Xi'an Airport or Xi'an Train Station and transfer you to your hotel by private car. After a short break, visit Xi'an City Wall which is considered a landmark dividing the city into the inner part and the outer part. It was built in the Ming Dynasty over 700 years ago and is the most complete ancient city wall in China.

Then, drive to Shaanxi Historical Museum--the largest comprehensive museum in the province. The museum exhibits over 3,000 unearthed historical relics and most of the exhibited items are rare treasures, showing you the splendid Chinese culture. After this, drive back to your hotel.

Day 2: Terracotta Warrior, Banpo Remains, Bell Tower (-, L, -)

Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel after your breakfast. Then drive to the Terracotta Warrior which is 35 km from Xi'an City and is a place that should not to be missed by any visitor to China. The museum covers an area of 16,300 sq m and is divided into three sections. Life size terracotta figures of warriors and horses arranged in battle formations are the focus at the museum. They are replicas of what the imperial guard should look like in those days of pomp and vigor. Each figure has its own facial features and expressions, clothing, hairstyle, and gesture.

Then, proceed to Banpo Remains which is located between the Chanhe and the Bahe rivers, in the eastern outskirt of Xi'an City. The Banpo Village Remains is a typical Neolithic matriarchal community of the Yangshao Culture dating back about 6,000 years, and the earliest beginnings of the Chinese civilization traced back to then. It located mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Valley and is characterized by finly painted pottery.

Next, go to the Bell Tower which lies in the center of Xi'an City. The Bell Tower was build in 1384. But in 1582, when the city went through an expansion, people then pulled down the original bell tower and rebuilt a bell tower in the center of expanded city. The big iron Jinglong Bell on the Bell Tower was made in Ming Dynasty and it weighs 2,500 kg. It has given time to the city for more than 400 years. Nowadays, the clear and loud time-given sound on the tower in Xi'an is the recording sound of that bell. Then, drive back to your hotel.

Day 3: Famen Temple, Forest of Stone Steles Museum (-, L, -)

Your tour guide will pick you up after your breakfast. Firstly, you will have an excursion to Famen Temple which is a Buddhism Temple located around 120 km west of Xian City. The temple is renowned for storing the veritable Finger Bone of the Sakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. It was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) for carrying forward Buddhism. The most representative structures in the temple are the Famen Temple Pagoda and Famen Temple Museum. In 1987, the government decided to rebuild the pagoda and in the course of cleaning up the pagoda's base, an Underground Palace of the Tang Dynasty, which had been closed for one thousand years, was excavated. This is the largest underground palace in pagodas found in China.

Then, proceed to the Forest of Stone Steles Museum which is situated on Sanxue Street, downtown of Xi'an near the south gate of Xi'an City Wall. It once was the site of the Temple of Confucius during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and was first built in 1087 A.D. when some precious stone steles were moved here for safe keeping. With nearly 10,000 stelae in the collection, the museum is like an encyclopedia of ancient China. Then, drive back to your hotel.

Day 4: Xianyang Museum, Qianling Mausoleum (-, L, -)

Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel to Xianyang Museum which locates in Xianyang City, about 28 km away from Xi'an. It is a famous local history museum in China. The cultural relics in the Xianyang Museum focus on the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. The museum features nine exhibition halls and a stele corridor. Among the rich cultural relics, the 3,000 Painted Terra - Cotta Warriors and Horses of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC - 24AD) are the most famous.

Then, proceed to Qianling Mausoleum which is on the summit of Liangshan Mountain, about 80 km northwest of Xi'an. The Qianling Mausoleum is where the Emperor Tang Gaozong ( Li Zhi, 628 A.D.-683 A.D.) and Empress Wu Zetian (624 A.D.-705 A.D.), were buried together. Wu Zetian was the only woman to have ruled China. Qianling Mausoleum is the most representative among the eighteen Tang-dynasty tombs and the best preserved one. There are two tablets in praise of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian: "The Sushengji Tablet" and "The Wordless Tablet " out of the southern gate. The Wordless Tablet that has carved dragons and oysters upon it, but no inscription. It is the only Wordless Tablet of an emperor's mausoleum in China (6.3 meters high, and weights 98.9 tons). There is nothing like this at any other royal tomb sites.

After all of these, your guide will escort you to Xi'an Airport for your flight to next destination.

Itinerary: B: Breakfast  AB: American Breakfast   L: Lunch   D: Dinner   SD: Special Dinner

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