What You Will Do
This is a tailor-made city tour with private guide and driver for 8 hours! Meet your guide and driver in the morning, spend a few minutes discussing your private tour day schedule according to your personal interests, choose 3 to 4 sightseeing sites to visit or see up to 8 sites if you just want a glance of some attractions in 8 hours. This tour provides private guide, driver, whole day transfer and delicious local lunch. (All entrance fees at your own expense).
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Itinerary
1
Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayanta)
1 hour
Your private guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel lobby at 08:30 or on your request time. Spend a few minutes discussing your day schedule. See what is you are interested in, such as architecture, art ,literature ,humanity, history, music, foodie, polity, philosophy…… then customize how many sites you want to go and your tour pace.
Option 1: Big Wild Goose Pogoda is considered as one of the Xi'an History landmarks,a Great Tang dynasty culture relics temple. Your private guide will tell you why the pogoda is leaning, the relationship between the "Silk Road"and Tang, what is the Buddhist philosophy and how today's China religion condition is. If your visit time is the chanting day, you will see a lot of monks and believers stay out changting in the yard.
2
Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang)
1 hour
Option 2: Follow your guide to climb up to the top of the 600 years old Ancient City Wall, and enjoy 1-hour comfortable and relaxing walking or rent a bike do 30 minites to 2 hours cycling exercise on the top of the wall. You also will see local people's life such as City Wall morning market or relaxation moat park at the bottom of the Wall.
3
Temple of the Eight Immortals (Ba Xian An)
30 minutes
Option 3 is a very local experience. This daoism/taoism temple 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 funeral objects in the market nearby. You will see a lot of special selling stuff for the "dead" in the "underground world".
4
Muslim Quarter
1 hour
Option 4: Muslim Quarter is also called Muslim Market or called Muslim Street. You will follow your guide explore Muslim snacks along the crowded main street to the back lanes and alley, you will not only see a lot of interesting food such as big stick limb skewers, yellow color sticky rice, stir fruit ice cream, nuts candy, beef burger.....you also will pass by the female mosque. This market optional stay is 1 hour here or longer based on your request.
5
Xi'an Banpo Museum
1 hour
Option 5: This on-site museum is considered as one of the best Neolithic Age museums in China. You will enjoy hisory learning in 6000 years ago primitive society culture life.
6
Xi'an Mosque
1 hour
Option 6:This Mosque does not look like a Muslim Mosque from outside if you don't visit in. You will view a really beautiful quiet garden with a lot of 600~1000 years old relics such as Song Dynasty rubbing, Ming dynasty tablets, Qing dynasty pavilion and the Pray Hall with traditional Chinese style.
7
Drum Tower (Gulou)
30 minutes
Option 7: If you climb up to the top of Drum Tower, you will not only see the whole Muslim Quater, you also will enjoy a short Bell and Drum playing show and Ming and Qing Dynasty antique furniture excibition.
8
Yongxingfang
1 hour
Option 8: This is a foodie square with hundreds of restaurants which are famous and popular for Xi'an locals and Chinese tourists who want to try Xi'an countyside style organic food.
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