Terracotta soldiers, Xian

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 1 night stay. Visit the landmark of Xian - the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Highlight afternoon 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. 

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

Hotel: Grand New World Hotel (4 star)

Descriptions:
Big Wild Goose Pagoda - The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the famed Buddhist architecture of the Tang Dynasty, stands in the west courtyard of the ancient Da Ci'en Temple and witnesses the change of Xian from age to age. The temple was on a large scale in the Tang Dynasty. The renowned monk master Xuan Zang was the first abbot of the temple, so it became the Buddhist center of China at that time. Then in 652AD, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built to store the scriptures brought back by Xuan Zang from India.
 
Terracotta Warriors - By far there are three pits of terracotta warriors and horses discovered. Among them, the pit 1 is the first one to be found. In March in 1974, the local villagers accidentally found it when they drilled wells. In pit 1, there are over 6,000 pieces of terracotta warriors and horses figures and 1,000 of them have been unearthed. They formed a well-organized battle formation which was mainly composed of infantry and cavalry. They seemed to get ready to start fighting at any moment when the order was given. What a mighty force they were!

Our client in front of Xian Big Wild Goose Pagoda Photo by our client Mr. Arne Dalfelt

Day 02Xian 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 and China's most completely perserved City Wall, which surrounded the downtown city as a circle. 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 - Unique historical and culture heritage of Shaanxi is undoubted worth the praise as treasure house of Chinese civilization, and Shaanxi History Museum is definitely a palace of art to display Shaanxi's history and culture and China's ancient civilization. There are as many as some 370,000 antiquities collected in the 11,000-square-meter exhibition halls and 8,000-square-meters storage, ranging from prehistorical relics to that of the 1840s. Time spans more than one million years and the collection is superior in value, quantity, rank and species.

City Wall - Embosomed by broad deep moat and smothered with densely woods, the City Wall of Xian has become a beautiful scene of the ancient city. It was built since early Ming Dynasty on the basis of Tang imperial city. Through five times of large scale restoration in history, it finally made to be a great fortification, which is nowadays the most intact and largest ancient city wall of China in existence, listed among the first batch of national key historical and cultural relics by the State Council early in the 1960s.

Great Mosque - Unlike authentic mosques in Arabic countries, the Great Mosque in Xian is in Chinese style with courtyards, except for some Arabic lettering and decorations. It has neither domes nor minarets of traditional Islamic mosque. However, as the largest and one of the earliest mosques in Xian, it is the major spot for religious activities of tens of thousand Moslems in the city. Around the mosque is the largest Moslem community, Hui Fang, where Islamic customs, tens of lanes and countless Moslem snack shops are well reserved.