Tour Features: When go to Xi’an, one should not miss the Terracotta Warrior Museum. In these 3 days, you will get in touch with it closely. Life size terracotta figures of warriors and horses are replicas of what the imperial guard and should look like in those days of spectacularity and vigor. Each figure differs from those around in facial features and expressions, clothing, hairstyle, and gesture.
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 continue to visit Shaanxi Historical Museum--the largest comprehensive museum in the province. The museum exhibits over 3,000 unearthed historical relics, a small fraction of their collection, and most of the exhibited items are rare treasures, showing you the splendid Chinese culture. After this, back to your hotel.
Day 2: Terracotta Warrior, Big Wild Goose Pagoda (B, L, -)
Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in the morning after your breakfast. Then visit 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 star features at the museum. They are replicas of what the imperial guard should look like in those days of pomp and vigor. Each figure has it is own facial features and expressions, clothing, hairstyle, and gesture.
Then, go on to visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda which is 4 km from the downtown of Xi'an City and was initially built in 652 during the Tang Dynasty. It is 64.5 m (211.6 ft) high and is widely renowned for Master Xuanzang (Monk Tripitaka) stored his classics brought from India. It is the landmark of the ancient capital city - Xi'an. Then, back to your hotel.
Day 3: Great Mosque of Xi'an, Bell Tower (B, L, -)
Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in the morning after your breakfast. Then, visit the Great Mosque of Xi'an, located at the Huajue Lane on the center of the city, is the largest and best preserved of the early mosques of China. It was first built as early as the 700 A.D. in the Tang Dynasty, but the current complex layout was finished during the Ming Dynasty in the late 14th century. The mosque is a combination of traditional Chinese architecture and Islamic art and is the only one Mosque that opens to visitors in China.
Then we will 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 had an expansion, people then pulled down the original bell tower and rebuilt a bell tower in the center of expanded city. Now 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, was the recording sound of that bell.
After all of these, you will be transferred to the Xi'an Airport for your flight to the next destination.
Itinerary: B: Breakfast AB: American Breakfast L: Lunch D: Dinner SD: Special Dinner
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