Day 1 Xi'an Lunch
Pick up you from the hotel in the morning.
Visit ancient City Wall,
Xi'an's gray city walls are imposing and built to keep out bandits and
barbarians, The massive walls measure 12m high and 16m wide at the base,
tapering to 12m to 14m and is 13.74km in circumference. Towers at each corner of
the walls have defensive towers jutting our along the length of the wall, the
surviving walls, built on Tang dynasty foundations, date to the Ming dynasty and
were built during the 14 century. Parts of the wall have been destroyed and the
wall is incomplete but many sections remain or have been rebuilt.
Then we
will visit Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, It was opened in 1991, is
the largest comprehensive museum in the province.the museum exhibits over 3,000
historical relics, a small fraction of their collection, ranging from
115,000-year-old prehistoric artifacts to items from the Opium wars of the
1840's. The main attraction of the museum is the magnificent collection of Tang
dynasty artifacts. Of special significance are the bronze pieces and the tang
gold and silverware, the terracotta pieces and murals from Tang dynasty
tombs.the museum is built in a traditional Tang dynasty architectural style is
modern and well designed,
Move on to visit Big Wild Goose
Pagoda. The temple was built in AD 648 by Tang emperor Gaozong as an act of
filial piety to honor his mother. The temple was destroyed after the fall of the
Tang dynasty and the present buildings, mainly from the Qing dynasty, have been
recently renovated. The pagoda has a 5m-high square base and reaches 64.5m in
height. It was built to house and protect Buddhist scriptures collected by
Chinese monk, Xuan Zang, who spent an epic 17 years traveling to India and back
for their collection and an equal amount of time doing translating them, his
journey has been immortalized in the novel JOURNEY TO THE WEST - one of China's
most important Literary work.
Be transferred back to hotel.
Above price includes:
1. Pick-up from and transfer back
to your hotel .
2. Private Air-conditioned car or van.
3. Admission fee of
mentioned attractions.
4. Meals as listed in itinerary.
5.
Private English-speaking tour guide.
Above price excludes:
Gratuities to guide and driver, Personal expense.
