Xi’an Highlights Tour - 4 Days
From: US$600 p/p

When the flight touches down in Xian, your professional English-speaking guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area of the airport and provide you a comfortable airport-hotel transfer. Then you will visit the ancient City Wall, which was constructed about 600 years ago during the Ming Dynasty. If time permits, you can travel around on the wall and have a panoramic view of the city.

This morning, you will take a world wonder trip to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. The orderly arranged warriors and horses, finely-made bronze weapons and Bronze Chariots and Horses will show you the mighty forces and advanced manufacture of the Qin Dynasty (about 2,200 years ago). From the hairstyle and clothing, you can also have a glimpse of the custom of that period. Around noon, a family visit with home cooked a la carte lunch (valued at CNY120.00 per person and included in our price) is specially arranged for you to learn about the locals' life and taste the authentic homely Chinese dishes. Our Chinese food cooking class in the family visit will provide you a perfect chance to learn to cook Chinese dishes for free. In the afternoon, you will visit the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Jianfu Temple. Then continue your private tour to the 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.

After breakfast, we will arrange you a private day trip to Mt. Huashan, 120 kilometers away from Xian City. As one of the five most famous mountains in China, Mt. Huashan is famous for its natural vistas of steep and narrow paths, precipitous crags, lofty peaks and a high mountain range. It takes two hours to reach the foot of Mt. Huashan. Then your private guide will accompany you to take the cable car to the top station located on the hillside of the North Peak. Climbing up to the top of the North Peak with a high altitude of 1614 meters will take you around half an hour. If you are energetic enough, you may also consider hiking up to the Black Dragon Ridge, one of the dangerous pass of the mountain. We believe that you will be impressed by the majesty of Huashan Mountain and also its supernatural atmosphere. Afterwards, climb back to the North Peak and take the cable car back to the foot of mountain. The whole guided hiking may take around two hours in total. Then we will transfer you back to your hotel.

In the morning, you will visit the Great Mosque. This is an Islamic mosque with Chinese temple layout, having successive courtyards on an east-to-west axis facing Mecca with pavilions and pagodas adapted to Islamic functions. Around the mosque, there is the famous Muslim Street where you can stroll around leisurely and taste the local snacks. After that, you will be transferred to Xian Airport for your homeward flight. Wish you have a pleasant trip home!