Xian City Wall

Day 01Entry Xian

Our guide will hold a welcome sign to meet you outside the baggage claim area at the Xian Airport according to your international (internal) flight schedule. Transfer you to the 4-star hotel for 2 nights stay. 

Meals: We do not arrange any meals for you today because of the different arrival flights.

Hotel: Grand New World Hotel (4 star)

Day 02Xian

Highlight morning excursion transfers you to visit the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century, the amazing Terracotta Soldiers Museum, which boasts the title of the World's Eighth Great Wonder. This afternoon, visit the landmark of this city - Big Wild Goose Pagoda and China's most completely perserved City Wall, which surrounded the downtown city as a circle. 

Specials: A la carte lunch, Dumpling Banquet (Address: No. 165, Wenyi Road, Xian, 710054)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Descriptions:
Terracotta Warriors - The Terracotta Warriors and Horses are no doubt a wonder in the world. People may wonder how they were produced. The production is a complex process involving material preparation, figure creation, firing, glazing and coloring. The yellow earth around the mausoleum is found to be the right material to make the warriors. The ancient artisans made the terracotta warriors figure by sections, first head and then body. The figures were fired in kilns where the heating degree kept around 1,832 F. After firing, the Qin's artisans carefully painted these figures to make them more lively and vivid.
 
Big Wild Goose Pagoda - The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was originally built in 652 AD during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. Because it is situated in Da Ci'en Temple, it is also called Ci'en Temple Pagoda. In the Tang Dynasty, it was the most famous and magnificent temple where Monk Master Xuan Zang set up Buddhist Sutra Translation Center and founded the Consciousness-Only School of Buddhism in China. To keep the sutra he brought back from India, Xuan Zang took part in the construction of the pagoda in person. So the temple and pagoda always occupy an important position in the development of Buddhism.

Xian terracotta soldiers

Day 03Xian Exit

Excursion today will bring you to Shaanxi History Museum to aprreciate China's long history, which is considered as an obligation to be a showcase of China's ancient civilizations. Afternoon visit one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved Islamic mosques in China - Great Mosque. Afterwards, private transfer takes you to the airport and your pleasant China tour ends here. 

Specials: A la carte lunch 
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Descriptions:
Shaanxi History Museum - There is a galaxy of fine artistic and cultural articles collected in the museum. Among the vast array of the antiquities, it contains exquisitely bronze wares of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, vivid pottery figurines of various postures in different dynasties, rare gold and silver wares of Han and Tang dynasties and peculiar mural paintings in Tang tombs, all of which are the finest part that can never be missed. It functions as an important ground for archeological research, education and relic preservation, meaning to expose the rich cultural deposit and civilized achievement of the history to the public. 
 
Great Mosque - Located in Huajue Xiang, a lane in the northwest of the Drum Tower, the Great Mosque is among the four largest mosques in China and also the earliest one in the city of Xian. It started to be built in 742 of the Tang Dynasty, jointly known as the most time-honored mosques in the city, together with another mosque in Da Xuexi Xiang. For their locations, the Great Mosque is also called the Great Eastern Mosque, a remarkable Islamic cultural relic listed by the UNESCO, which perfectly combines Chinese traditional with Islamic architectural styles.