3 Days Xian Highlight Small Group Tour
Overview
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72 hours
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As the ancient Chinese capital city and hometown of world famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Xian is one of the top destinations for tourists who visit China for the first time. This 3 days fully guided small group tour is the best choice for the first-time visitors who want to see more things with less cost. In the 3 days you will see: Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Banpo Museum, City Wall, Small Wild Goose Pagoda, Muslim Quarter, Mt. Huashan, etc.
Additional Info
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
The cost is based on pickup and drop off from hotel in Xian city area. If you arrive or depart Xian by train and need the train station transfer. The extra cost is CNY100 per way to Xian city train station, CNY200 per way to North Xian Station.
The touring activities on three days may be done in inverse order according to the booking of other tourists. While we promise you will visit all mentioned sites unless the event of Force Majeure.
Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
You will be contacted at least one day ahead of the travel day via email to advise the pickup info. The tour guide will also call you or leave you a message through your hotel room the night before tour about pickup time.
You are suggested to wear comfortable shoes on tour day.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 6 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.<br>If you cancel between 2 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.<br>If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
What To Expect
Terracotta Warriors and Banpo Museum Bus Tour
Accommodations
Hotel in city area booked by you
The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
The tour guide and driver will pick you up in your hotel lobby at 07:30-08:30am. (Our guide will call your hotel room to confirm the exact time.) Today’s tour starts at Terra-Cotta Warriors, one of the top ten places of historical interest in China. Terracotta Warriors Museum，discovered accidentally in 1974, the repairs and excavations still continue in the three pits, where will marvel at more than 7000 life-sized sculptures of the ancient army, including both gray-haired veterans and young soldiers, with multiple poses and individualized facial features. There is also a circular-screen short film introducing its historical background and how it was discovered.
Xi'an Banpo Museum
In the afternoon, continue to visit Banpo Neolithic village. This New Stone Age site, dating from approximately 5,000 to 4,000 B.C., is one of the most complete examples of a Neolithic agricultural settlement in the world. After the whole day’s tour, transfer back to your hotel by 16:30.
Xian City Sightseeing Bus Tour
Accommodations
Hotel in city area booked by you
Small Goose Pagoda
The tour guide and the driver will meet you in your hotel lobby. Today’s adventure begins with Small Wild Goose Pagoda, one of the two Buddhist temples built in the Tang Dynasty which locates in an ancient Chinese style garden.
Next we will move on to North Square of Big Wild Goose Pagoda to have an outer look of the pagoda and enjoy some relaxing time when walking on the square.
Xi'an City Wall (Chengqiang)
After lunch, we’ll move on to Ancient City Wall. The 600 years old City Wall is the most completely preserved and the largest city wall in China.
Drum Tower Square
After that you will visit the Bell Tower and Drum Tower Square. It is located in the center of Xian city. You may take memorable photos of the outside appearance of Bell Tower and Drum Tower.
Muslim Quarter
And from the back of the Bell Tower you will enter the Muslim Quarter. Many special local products and snacks could be found along this street. At the end of the day tour, you are transferred back to your hotel in Xian.
Mt. Huashan Bus Tour (No meal)
Xi'an
In the morning our guide will meet you in your hotel at 08:00-09:00 (The guide will call your hotel room to confirm the exact pickup time in the evening one day before.) After collecting all tourists we will drive to Mt. Huashan and the driving will last about 2 hours.
Mount Huashan
After arriving in Mt. Huashan we will take the scenic shuttle bus to foot of North Peak and from where take the cable car up to the mountain. Visit the mountain with our guide for sometime and then you will enjoy your free time for sightseeing and photo taking. The scenery here will definitely surprise you! We will stay on mountain for 5-6 hours and you may cover 3-5 peaks according to your interest.
Xi'an
At about 17:00 our guide will meet you on top of North peak and then take the cable car down to North Peak foot. Then take the scenic shuttle bus to scenic exit and board our car back to your hotel in Xian. Lunch will be on your own since there is no restaurant on mountain top. And we will be on mountain at lunch time.
What‘s Included
Round way scenic shuttle bus and North Peak cable car in Huashan
One bottle of mineral water per day
English speaking tour guide
Entrance tickets
Air-condition car and licensed driver
Hotel
Any Meals
Personal expense
Gratuities
Pickup points
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3 Days Xian Group Tour
3 Days Xian Highlight Small Group Tour
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Reviews
5 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
An interesting and informative tour handled by a reliable company
kingpengh2024,,Oct 20, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Both my wife and I cannot read Chinese, and were quite worried when booking the private tour starting from Chengdu. Mrs Nancy Liu, the senior tour consultant who handled our booking, was very helpful and prompt in answering our queries and looking into every minute detail. She was very precise and concise in her instructions including our to and fro high speed train journey. The tour itself was informative and covered many interesting places. Our tour guide was very punctual and her vast knowledge made it possible for us to appreciate the tour even more. We also moved around in a comfortable car with a careful driver who never kept us waiting. My verdict? An interesting and informative tour superbly handled by a very reliable company that delivers what it promises. Thanks CXT.
Xian: a deep pot of China’s valuable history.
Vacation37986592843,,May 3, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Xian: what a magical place!!!! So full of history and charming lights. I was a solo traveler who joined a small guided tour to the following attractions: TerraCotta Warriors, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi’an Great Wall, Muslim quarter/ snack street, Drum/Bell Tower, Xi’an Museum and Everbright City. You would think it’s not possible to do so many things in 3days but if you have an expert guide like hours, you can do this and more!!!! Noble was our guide and what an amazing guide he is. Speaks English really well (self-taught), enthusiastic & passionate about the history of his town, and has great people skills. He was such a wealth of knowledge and he tells the stories with so much pride in his voice, that you can’t help but fall in love with Xi’an and the history of the country in general. He suggested a show that tells the history of the beginning of the Silk Road & boy were we in for a treat!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾What a spectacular show, with real camels and real wolf dogs. Do yourself a favor and ask your guide about this hour long show. The tickets are a bit steep but oh so worth it!!!! It’s in Chinese but there‘a a screen that has English translation. Our guide also took us to a restaurant that’s famous for local cuisine and everything we tried on the menu, we like. The dinner was followed by a walk in Everbright City which was breathtaking!!!! 😍🥰😍 One can’t get over the beauty of those lights. Every place we went to came with great history lessons from Noble that one would definitely not get from the internet, no matter how much you Google. Highlights of the tour: meeting the farmer who discovered the Terra-cotta Warriors, what an honor!, The start of The Silk Road show, Terra-Cotta Warriors, seeing that many real artifacts in Xi’an Museum & of course, Everbright City. I even went back to Everbright City during the day. Lowlights of the tour: traffic. 😭😭😭 Do not make the mistake (like we did) of booking this tour during peak season. To say it was busy would be an understatement!!!!! Though our guide knew all the back alleys and meandered us expertly, there was no way of avoiding traffic unfortunately. We missed going to the big Pagoda on the scheduled day coz of it, but we fitted it on the next day. 2. It rained so much on our last day. 😭😭😭 And most of our activities were outside. Both of these were out of control for our guide and noone’s fault really so we understood but our guide also made the rainy day enjoyable. I’d give my guide (Noble Liu) a 15/10 for his knowledge and people’s skills. The trip itself is a 12/10. 😍😍😍 If you’re a history geek and you haven’t been to Xi’an, you are missing out!!!!
Friendly and knowledgeable guide
fatinaisyahg,,Mar 3, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our tour guide is very knowledgeable in Xi'an history. Very friendly and passionate when answering our questions. He easily treats us family and vice versa. Highly recommended.
Magnificent Xi'an tour with Noble our tour guide from Joy travel
dineecec2018,,Oct 6, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This has been an amazing experience with Joy travel and our excellent tour guide Noble. No words can express our review (my husband and I). Our first tour in China since we have been here and we are looking forward to many more to come. From the magnificent hotel, to having a reliable driver during this holiday period, Noble our fantastic tour guide. We learned so much details about each place we visited. At the Muslim quarters we got to taste so many different delicious foods. When we visited the Pagoda and the Buddhist temple Noble taught us so much about the history related to it. Visiting the terracotta army was so memorable as we learned how to identify the different warriors by their hats they wore and what the different pits were related to. We also got to meet the farmer who discovered the army, took a photo and got to go shopping around for Jade. Noble gave us great advice about where we should buy souvenirs from. Noble also recommended the beautiful and we'll organized show about the silk road. He also took us for some local Shaanxi cuisine which was so delicious. We visited the city wall and not forgetting the Pagodas. Without our tour guide we would have not learned anything. We really appreciated having Noble explain in English and with so much details. We learned about the history in Xi'an, different dynasties, Buddhism, the silk road and so much more. I would definitely recommend Joy travel to any foreigner visiting China and if they are visiting Xi'an, please make sure you get Noble as a tour guide. He's the best!
very professional company.
Simone F,,Nov 15, 2018
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had to cancel our trip to Xian unexpectedly due to a death in our family. This company refunded our trip very promptly. We will definitely be dealing with them again. Highly recommend them - check out reviews for yourself
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