4-day Xi'an & Mt. Huashan Shaanxi Tour

Day By Day

Day 1 Arrival in Xian
Upon arrival in Xian, your professional English-speaking guide will meet you outside the baggage claim area of the airport and provide you a comfortable airport-hotel transfer. Then you will check in the hotel for a rest.


Day 2 Xian
Meals: B,L,D
Places to visit: Terra Cotta Warriors & Horses, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Ancient City Wall
This morning, you will take a world wonder trip to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. The orderly arranged warriors and horses, finely-made bronze weapons and Bronze Chariots and Horses will show you the mighty forces and advanced manufacture of the Qin Dynasty (about 2,200 years ago). From the hairstyle and clothing, you can also have a glimpse of the custom of that period. Then drop by a Pottery-making Factory. To avoid the cheap tourist food near the site, we will serve you an a la carte lunch at the best local restaurant. In the afternoon, you will visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Located in the south of the city, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda has witnessed the development of Xian since it was built in the Tang Dynasty, more than 1,300 years ago. Then continue to the ancient City Wall, which was onstructed about 600 years ago during the Ming Dynasty. If time permits, you can travel around on the wall and have a panoramic view of the city.

For dinner tonight, you will enjoy the local specialty Dumpling Dinner and Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Show at Shaanxi Opera Theatre (Addr: No. 165, Wenyi Road).



Day 3 Xian/Mt. Huashan
Meals: B,L
Places to visit: Huashan Mountain
After breakfast, we will start a full day tour to visit Huashan Mountain, 120 kilometers away from Xian City. As one of the five most famous Taoist mountains in China, Huashan Mountain is famous for its natural vistas of steep and narrow paths, precipitous crags, lofty peaks and a high mountain range. It takes two hours to reach the foot of Huashan Mountain. Then you will take the cable car to the North Peak with a high altitude of 1614 meters. You will be impressed by the majesty of Huashan Mountain and also its supernatural atmosphere. Afterwards, you will take the cable car back to the foot of mountain and we will transfer you back to Xi'an.



Day 4 Xian Departure
Meals: B
Places to visit: Shaanxi Provincial Museum
In the morning, you will visit the Shaanxi History Museum. There is a galaxy of fine artistic and cultural articles collected in the museum. Among the vast array of the antiquities, it contains exquisitely bronze wares of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, vivid pottery figurines of various postures in different dynasties, rare gold and silver wares of Han and Tang dynasties and peculiar mural paintings in Tang tombs, all of which are the finest part that can never be missed. Around noon, a family visit with home cooked a la carte lunch is specially arranged for you to learn about the locals' life and taste the authentic homely Chinese dishes. Our Chinese food cooking class in the family visit will provide you a perfect chance to learn to cook Chinese dishes for free. Then, you will be transferred to Xian Airport for your flight to next destination.

 

 

 

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Price Includes:

Transportation & Private Transfers:

Transportation cost covers all the domestic airfare of economy class with airport tax, train tickets between the cities as the itinerary specified.


Transfer between airports, railway station, hotels and scenic spots for sightseeing around the cities that are specified by the itinerary with private air conditioned vehicle with driver and English-speaking guide. Separate arrivals and departures will incur extra charges.


Entrance Fees:

All entrance fees to the scenic spots listed in the itinerary. The final arrangement will be determined by private tour guides depends on the real-time local circumstances wheather are beyond the control of Access China Travel. We will adhere to the original itinerary as accurately as possible.


Normal Meals:

All normal meals as the itinerary specified: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = dinner in local restaurant. Breakfasts are served in hotel, breakfasts have Chinese or Western style for your option; Lunches are served in carefully selected quality local Chinese restaurants with best service, your lunches will be ordered by your guide catering to your preferences within normal standard. Dinners as the itinerary specified will be also served in local Chinese restaurants. The meal quotation is normalized. If you have any special request about meals, like vegetarian, famous rare dishes, Indian food or more, please inform us in advance. For the unspecified dinners, you will have dinner on your own. Feel free to ask your local guide for suggestions or recommendation.


Private Sightseeing Escort:

Normal sightseeing activities as the itinerary listed will be escorted with English-speaking guide. The English-speaking guide and driver in each city are with you throughout the entire itinerary around that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.


Hotel Accommodation:

Hotel service criterion: two adults share on one standard twin/double-bed room; solo traveler who want to occupy one twin/double-bed room assigned is required for extra single supplement rate. A single room is available on prior request at an additional cost; if a recommended hotel unavailable, it will be replaced by one of the same class. All hotels as the itinerary listed serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.


Tour Arrangements:

The tour cost includes the planning, handling, booking, operation and communication charges.

Service Charge & Government Taxes

Price Excludes:

International airfare or train tickets for entry or exit China, unless that is noted or required otherwise.

Visa Fees, passport application or renewal fee.

Excess Baggage Charges.
Personal Expenses:
Expenses of a purely personal nature such as excess luggage fees, laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities (shows) and meals, beverages...

Meals:
Any meal are not specified in the itinerary with "B", "L" or "D".
Any extra cost caused by the changes of natural disasters, fires, weather, government and local authority orders, politics, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations; as well as tourist law violation, accident damages or injury incurred out of Access China Travel control.

Gratuities:
Tips to guides, escort, drivers bellman, etc.