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Xi'an Highlights: Ancient Wonders Tour
4.8
20 Ratings
Xi An Shi
Make the most of your layover in Xi’an with a private one-day tour. Visit the Terracotta Army Museum and other famous sites, guided by a personal tour guide. Includes round-trip airport transport.
Make the most of your layover in Xi’an with a private one-day tour. Visit the Terracotta Army Museum and other famous sites, guided by a personal tour guide. Includes round-trip airport transport.
Duration:
9 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses - With frequent flight and train schedules, a one-day round trip to Xi’an from Beijing is feasible. To maximize your time on this day tour, it is recommended to arrive in Xi’an before 09:00 in the morning and depart after 20:00.
Your personal guide and driver in Xi’an will promptly meet you at the…
- The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses - With frequent flight and train schedules, a one-day round trip to Xi’an from Beijing is feasible. To maximize your time on this day tour, it is recommended to arrive in Xi’an before 09:00 in the morning and depart after 20:00.
Your personal guide and driver in Xi’an will promptly meet you at the airport and take you to the Terracotta Army, celebrated as one of the “Eight Wonders of the World.” This site includes three pits and the Museum of Bronze Chariots and Horses. You will spend a minimum of 2.5 hours exploring this global marvel. Lunch is not included, but you can enjoy a meal at a nearby Chinese or Western restaurant based on your preference.
- Xi’an City Wall (Chengqiang) - Following your visit to the Terracotta Warriors, the tour continues to the ancient City Wall, the most well-preserved and largest ancient city wall in China. Your tour guide will share stories and historical insights about this magnificent relic. Cycling on the ancient wall offers an exhilarating experience (bike rental fee is not included).
- Muslim Quarter - Afterwards, the guide will accompany you to the vibrant Muslim Quarter, a paradise for food enthusiasts. Here, you can discover a variety of dried fruits, nuts, bread, pastries, barbecued beef, lamb, and more. Finally, your tour guide and driver will transport you back to the airport or railway station for your return flight or train to Beijing.
What's Included
- Unlimited bottles of drinking water
- Professional English speaking guide & Experienced driver with air conditioned vehicle
- Entrance fees to the sights visited
- Pick-up & drop-off from your hotel
- Unlimited bottles of drinking water
- Professional English speaking guide & Experienced driver with air conditioned vehicle
- Entrance fees to the sights visited
- Pick-up & drop-off from your hotel
What's Not Included
- Gratuities to guide and driver
- Meals and accommodation
- Bicycle rental fee on the City Wall
- Gratuities to guide and driver
- Meals and accommodation
- Bicycle rental fee on the City Wall
Additional Information
The Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is a renowned attraction for travelers near Xi’an. On this exclusive layover tour from Xi’an airport, journey to Lintong with your group and a knowledgeable tour guide to discover Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum, the Mausoleum Site Museum, and the legendary Army. Enjoy the convenience of round-trip airport…
The Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is a renowned attraction for travelers near Xi’an. On this exclusive layover tour from Xi’an airport, journey to Lintong with your group and a knowledgeable tour guide to discover Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum, the Mausoleum Site Museum, and the legendary Army. Enjoy the convenience of round-trip airport transfers in a private vehicle.
- We guarantee 100% No Shopping Stops in our tours. When you check some other tours, if they don’t mention no shopping, they MUST have commissioned based shopping stops as terracotta warriors factory or tea ceremony. Even you don’t see shopping related words in their itineraries or product introduction, it is indeed a shopping tour. Be sure to check out with them about the shopping stops and read reviews from their clients carefully to see what the real experience would be. By joining a shopping tour like that, your time spent on attractions will be shortened, and you will be pressured to buy overpriced items. Normally the so called terracotta warriors factory or tea ceremony is the tourist trap. You have to stay there an hour or more for those travel agents to get the commission from the factory stores. If you prefer to enjoy the tour thoroughly, you are suggested to choose a tour without any annoying shopping stops just like ours.
- Please provide the correct passport information for booking the real-name entrance tickets. And also please make sure to carry the same identification for entry while traveling. Otherwise, entry might not be permitted. If you forgot your passport and need to get back to fetch it, please pay for the transport and later meet the group by yourself.
- The itinerary schedule or sightseeing order may be adjusted according to the traffic on the tour day.
- Public Holidays: Please aware there will be large crowds and heavy traffic in Chinese public holidays like May Day from May 1st to 5th and National Day from Oct 1st to 7th. We will do the best to arrange the tour.
- Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
- This supplier also offers multi-day tours. Please search the supplier’s name to check its tour list.
Location
Xi'an Station
Shun Cheng Bei Lu Dong Duan
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(20 Ratings)
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Mrandmrsc549
Jun 30, 2019
Private tour to Terracotta Warriors and hot springs palace - Our tour guide Roger was fantastic. So knowledgeable about both sites. We had the most amazing day. Well worth it and would recommend it to anyone wanting to visit.
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Pgwisn
Jun 26, 2019
One of the best tour guides we've ever had! - “Travel China Guide Tours” guide Carol spent the day with us as we experienced the Terra Cotta Warriors and the City Wall around old Xi’an.
The “Travel China Guide” company had been recommended to us by several staff members at the Shekou International School in Shenzhen.
We were very glad we took their advice! Our guide Carol, who is a lifelong resident of Xi’an presented us with endless information during the ride out of Xi’an to the UNESCO site. This made the trip to the site go quickly as we sat in rapt attention to Carol’s insights.
She afforded us an in-depth understanding of the history of Xi’an and the surrounding area. In all of our travels our guide in Peru and Carol on this trip are tied as #1 in our book. The reason is both are well-versed in their knowledge of and ability to relate that information to us in an interesting and clear manner.
Once we arrived at the Terra Cotta Warriors it was soon apparent that Carol knew how to move efficiently through the many groups of tourists. We slipped between buildings avoiding much of the ‘tourist trap’ shops, making a beeline to the important parts of the site. This allowed us to maximize the time we had to see the Warriors and educational displays and minimize the commercial distractions.
Carol took us to the preferred traditional noodle restaurant for lunch and even helped translate my special dietary needs.
If you are going to Xi’an you should definitely consider a tour with Travel China Guide Tours. And if you are lucky you can request Carol (WeChat: Carolchen08) as your guide!!!
AAA+ experience!!
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Trangalangnewwin
Jun 20, 2019
Terracotta Army - This tour was absolutely wonderful!!! If you are visiting the Terracotta Army you MUST request Celine as your tour guide. She is so knowledgeable and very accommodating to what you want. She made this tour even more amazing than what it already with explaining the history and all of the details. Her love for history made this tour that much better. I also recommend doing a private tour just because it was more personal and at your own pace.
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Comocat
Jun 13, 2019
Excellent day tour with Tracy - This day tour was part of a private 15 day tour booked through Travel China Guide.
Our whole experience with this company was excellent, and our day with Tracy in Xi'an was no exception.
All aspects of the listed tour were enjoyable, the driver was great and the car very comfortable for our group of 4.
Tracy was a wonderful guide to spend the day with - she was very enthusiastic, spoke excellent English and was thoroughly organised at each location - we never felt rushed, and were able to spend as much time as we wanted exploring at our own pace.
The Terracotta Warriors exhibit was over the top crowded, but quite breathtaking and beautifully laid out. Tracy somehow negotiated quick entry and exit away from the crowds - another big positive for taking an experienced guide rather than going solo.
Our favourite part of the day was probably Muslim Street - I wasn't sure what to expect there, but Tracey gave us some bargaining tips and we thoroughly enjoyed pottering about the markets, and strolling along the streets experiencing the sights and smells of some rather unusual food vendors (and trying to pick exactly what some of those foods were !)
Had some great ice-cream there too (yum) and met a couple of young Chinese girls who wanted to practice their English - lots of giggles and photos were had on both sides.
Thanks Tracy for giving us a brilliant day in Xi'an xxx
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Zeroech0
May 20, 2019
Jacky and Kelly made our trip effortless - This was my second time booking with Travel China Guide, the first was a 5 day custom itinerary of Beijing. This time we wanted to skip Beijing and do the rest of the main highlights of China, HK and Macau. Kelly did a great job of helping me meet my budget but taking care of the difficult parts like booking some Chinese only hotels and the train tickets. We just got back and everything went perfectly, all transfer times were exactly right, all hotels were fine (one I booked myself somehow had gone through as a single breakfast despite there being two of us booked into the room... thanks booking.com... our TCG guide helped us fix that) and all our guides were excellent. Kelly made herself available to us should we have had any concerns but everything went so well that we didn’t need to contact her at all. Which I honestly thought we would we need to do at least once with such a complex itinerary.
In Xi’an Jacky was extremely knowledgeable, gave us the right time per place based on asking us what we wanted out of each experience (we wanted more wall time and less museum time for example) and helped us pick out a lunch that suited our tastes.
We had a total of 7 guides throughout our trip and he was one of our favourites.
Thank you Jacky for making our trip to Xi’an so pleasurable, it was great to meet you and if I am ever back in Xi’an (1 day was enough but I’d recommend to others to do if you can fit it into your trip), I would definitely request for you to be our guide again.
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Rea_sunshine_1988
May 10, 2019
Terracottas with Tracy - We had a lot of domestic travel within China, so when we finally got to Xi'an we were beat. But Tracy was super UPbeat which was refreshing since we were kind of dragging from lack of sleep on an overnight train. She was easy to spot when we got to the exit, despite the crowds (Chinese holiday). We had about a 45 minute drive to our hotel and she engaged in conversation the whole way! She told us about different historical moments and facts in Xi'an, let us know what the agenda was for the next day, bought tickets for a live show for us, and gave us some information about the hot springs at our hotel. The next day, we saw the Terracotta Warriors and Tracy was great about going at our pace (which was a bit quicker than some of the other tourists). She ensured we got plenty of photos and checked in with us before we would move on to the next place or activity. She showed us the City Wall and the Wild Goose Pagoda and then took us shopping in the Muslim Quarter. She didn't go with us but told us a few basic rules of bargaining and then let us go do our own thing. We enjoyed her company but appreciated that she wanted us to have some time to ourselves. We only got that one day with her (plus the transport to and from the train station) but it was a great experience. Tracy was very knowledgeable and fun to talk with. And both the bullet train and overnight train were great! I've never taken a train before but I prefer it over flying :) It was a short yet memorable stop in Xi'an.
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Kmk6504
May 9, 2019
3 day trip to Beijing and Xian - A colleague and I took a quick weekend away from work to visit Beijing and Xian. Both of our guides were super - Kitty and Celine. Every aspect of the trip was taken care of from picking us up and getting us to airport and all the train transfers. Every detail was like clockwork. Both ladies were so knowledgeable of the history of China and the attractions we saw - Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Summer palace, Great Wall, Hutong tour , Chinese acrobats in Beijing and the Terrracottoa solider and Muslim section in Xian. We had plenty of time, never rushed through any of the things we saw. It was a trip of a life time and so appreciative of China Travel and how they planned the trip to our needs and how it was all executed. It could not have gone any better. Thanks Linda, Celine and Kitty!!
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Martha
Mar 18, 2019
Journey though Chinese History - Carol was professional, pleasant and passionate about guiding guests. As an ambassador of her beloved China, she provided thoughtful service and tailored the day to our needs and was flexible enough to alter the plan as our energy and interest changed.
We look forward to returning for other visits.
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Linda
Mar 10, 2019
Wow and thanks Jacky - The Terracotta Warriors are as impressive as everyone says, and MORE! They are beyond awesome. Jacky from China Travel Guide was a courteous knowledgeable guide who went in with us to explain things..and managed to keep track of both of us as we often took off in different directions. He and the Warriors were worth the money, and having our own driver and guide made everything stress free.
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Judy5traveller
Jun 12, 2019
Terracottas with Judy from China Private Tours - I had a one day trip to visit terracotta warriors and the wall in Xi'an. Very nice and interesting day. I had a very nice guide, Judy. She was very knowledgably, kind and extremely helpful. I was also very satisfied with the driver. He drove very safe.
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