Private Xi'an Day Tour: Terracotta Army&Optional City Attractions
Description
This is a full day 8-hour private tour to Terra Cotta Warriors and 2 city attractions of your choice. Private guide and driver with whole day transfer are all included, except for entrance tickets and lunch. Meet your private guide and driver at your request time in your hotel lobby or Airport exit according to your booking. Explore the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum for about 2.5 ~3 hours according to your pace and after lunch, you will visit two more city attractions. You will be dropped off at your hotel or airport at the end based on your booking option. Lunch is flexible and available after Terracotta tour, your private guide will take you to anthentic local restaurant if you need.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Your private guide and driver will meet you in your hotel lobby around 08:30 or you request time, one hour drive to Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum, around 3 hours enjoyable visit to museum pit 1, pit 2, pit 3 and Bronze Chariots all exhibition without any tourist factory stop. You will have local restaurant lunch before one hour drive back Xi’an downtown for 2 optional city attractions. Your guide and driver will drive you back hotel at end of this whole day tour.
Your first option is to visit Big Wild Goose Pogoda which is considered as one of the Xi'an History landmarks, Great Tang dynasty culture relics temple. Your private guide will tell you why the pogoda is leaning, what is the Buddhist philosophy, how is today China religion condition. A lot of monks and believers stay out in the yard if your visit time is the chanting day.
This is the second attraction option, follow your guide to climb up to the top of the 600 years old Ancient City Wall, enjoy around 20~30 minutes comfortable and quietly walking or rent a bike enjoy 30 minutes fun cycling exercise on the top of the wall with your guide history explaination.
This is the third attraction option.You will learn 6000 years old matriarchal clan information along the original village site which is devided into three parts: living house site, burial tombs site and pottery making kilns. A lot of vivid pictures,movie, models and videos are also helpful to understand that special "girl power" time life.
The 4th option is a Daoism/Taoism temple which is famous and popular for Xi'an local people go there to pray,to listen monk chanting, to ask a fortune teller or to buy burial objects in the market nearby.
The 5th option is Muslim Market or called Muslim Street in the afternoon, you will follow your guide explore Muslim snacks along the crowded street, big piles of limb skewers,yellow color sticky rice, stir fruit ice cream, nuts candy, beef burger.....you may stay 1 hour here or longer based on your request.
Over 1300 years old mosque in Xi'an, it combines Chinese traditional garden art and Islamism culture.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
If your booking option is: tour+hotel transfer, the pickup location is the hotel within the 3rd ring road of Xi'an downtown (NOT airport or train station)
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infant (1-3 years old) are free providing they do not occupy a seat
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Please make a note on booking page if you need infant seat.
- Please note your passport info. on booking page for Terracotta tickets purchase in advance.
- If you need airport or bullet train station pick up or drop off service, please contact us and pay for extra.
- Vegetarian or gluten-free is available, please tell your guide before lunch.
Reviews(185)
Our guide Tina was very knowledgeable and helpful, we learned a lot with her. Her English was really good and she was very kind with us and the kids. Our itinerary included the city walls, wild goose pagoda, lunch and the terra-cotta warriors museum. The local restaurant was delicious! We would 100% recommend this tour and Tina, an unforgettable experience overall!
This was a fantastic day, our guide advised to see the Terracotta Warriors in the afternoon when there would be less people. This was very important for us being older guests. The city wall and goose pagoda were our first visits on an extremely hot day. Our guide assisted us in every way, she was fantastic.. We went at our own pace, which was important., I would certainly recommend the tour and our guide.
Agnes was amazing and helped facilitate all we wanted while respecting our limited time in the area. She and the driver were great with cold water waiting for us after each stop. Highly recommend
This is an amazing tour! I would definitely recommend it. The Muslem Quarters was also a must see. They had great food and shopping
We had a great day out. Rena picked us up from our hotel and we walked to the subway. The transfer was very efficient and avoided the traffic jams that we had in other recent day trips. The warriors were fantastic . We have seen many photos before but seeing them in real life was amazing. Rena was extremely knowledgeable and interesting. At first the crowds can seem daunting, when you first arrive you can’t see the warriors because so many people are in front of However, people move away fairly quickly and you can gradually work your way to the front without any problems. We visited the Huaqing Palace, as one of our additional options (not sure it was on the list but Rena arranged it for us) and would recommend it. Also the Big Wild Goose pagoda. Rena was extremely friendly throughout and kindly helped us with some admin issues that had nothing to do with the trip itself. Would definitely 100% recommend Rena and the Tour.
What a fantastic day. Elith, our tour guide, was amazing and incredibly helpful. We went to see the Terracotta Warriors and the Goose Pagoda and it was a day we will never forget. I cannot recommend Elith enough. And Leo, our driver, was also also great. You can’t go wrong with these tours!
The private guided tour with Steven was excellent. The experiences were breathtaking, and Steven provided great context to all of the sights. Logistics were all handled ahead of time and the experience was smooth and enjoyable. The driver was also timely and always ready for transfer. During the day, we had well selected local food which was delicious.
We had a private tour with Elith to the terracotta warriors band then we chose two additional locations. All the locations of course were great. Elith is amazing and made the tour more enjoyable. I’d recommend asking for her as the guide if possible. Very informative and knew the history. Also, was very aware that my mother is a little older and adjusted the pace for us to make it comfortable. The company was also very responsive to my pre-trip questions.
This for me was the perfect experience! Every part of the booking went exactly as planned as well as a few thoughtful additions being included. I’d wanted ideally an experience where everything was sorted given I was travelling to Xi’an from Shanghai and wanted to remove any guess work needed. Catherine and the the team certainly did that. Everything was on time as planned, from the airport picks-ups to each of the elements of the day. A huge thanks again to Agnes my guide for the day who was so knowledgeable and passionate about the Terra-cotta Warriors and Xi’an as a city. This genuine and authentic level of insight meant I was captivated thought out, learning so much! Likewise thanks to our tour driver, Wei, who also made sure we were on time to everything planned on the day. Overall I’d highly recommend this experience, especially if you are planning to travel in from a different city, their team make sure all the necessary requirements are covered!
Very good experience to meet Xi’an in one day. In addition to Terracotta Warriors, we chose the Pagoda and the Wall. Along the way we had the opportunity to see other things that were explained to us by our guide. The guide with a very good command of Spanish.
