6-day Xi'an Yan'an & Hekou Shaanxi Tour

Day By Day

Day 1 Arrival in Xian
Upou arrival in Xian, you will find our guide is waiting for you outside the Baggage Claim Area of Xian Airport, holding a welcome sign on which your name is written. Our private transfer will take you to the downtown area to check in the hotel. Free relax for the rest of the day.


Day 2 Xian
Meals: B,L,D
Places to visit: Terra Cotta Warriors & Horses, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Shaanxi Provincial Museum
Highlight morning excursion will take you to visit the most significant archeological excavations of the 20th century, the amazing Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, which boasts the title of the World's Eighth Great Wonder. Here, you may see the clay soldiers and horses of distinct facial expressions and positions orderly arranged in battle formations and the famous Bronze Chariots and Horses, as well as many delicate bronze weapons, presenting a real scene of war in ancient China.

Then drop by a Pottery-making Factory. Around noon, rather than the mass-produced food at the tourist eateries arranged by most agencies, we will offer you an a la carte lunch at the well-known best local restaurant. In the afternoon, continue to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The 64.5-meter-high (211.6 feet) pagoda was built in the Tang Dynasty (about 1,300 years ago) to house the Buddhist scriptures and statues brought back form India. Not far from the pagoda, you will then come to one of the best museums in China, Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, to gain further insight into Chinese history and culture through the large collection of historical items. Tonight, the local specialty Dumpling Dinner and a wonderful Tang Dynasty Music and Dance Performance at Shaanxi Opera Theatre (Addr: No. 165, Wenyi Road) is scheduled for you to appreciate.


Day 3 Xi'an/Yan'an
Meals: B,L
Places to visit: Ancient City Wall, The Great Mosque
Today your trip will begin with a visit to the City Wall, which was initially built as a military defense system over 600 years ago. Nowadays, it is a popular travel destination. Ascending the City Wall, you could appreciate the magnificent ancient constructions, admire the surrounding urban landscape and watch the locals doing exercises or entertaining themselves at its foot. Then you countinue to visit continues to the Great Mosque, which merges traditional Chinese construction into the Islamic culture. The famous snack street, Muslim Street, is on the way to the mosque. You will find lots of mouthwatering local snacks and interesting souvenirs. In the afternoon, you will take a high-speed train to Yan'an.



Day 4 Yan'an
Meals: B,L
Places to visit: Yan'an
After breakfast, we will start a full day tour around Yanan - the cradle of Red Revolution. Yan'an was near the endpoint of the Long March, and became the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1936 to 1948. Chinese communists celebrate Yan'an as the birthplace of the revolution.


Day 5 Yan'an/Hekou/Yan'an
Meals: B,L
Places to visit: Vist Hekou Waterfall  
The Hukou Waterfall is the largest waterfall on the Yellow River, China, the second largest waterfall in China (after the Huangguoshu Waterfall), and the world's largest yellow waterfall.


Day 6 Yanan/Xian Departure
Meals: B
After breakfast, you will drive back to Xi'an for the flight to your next destination.


Service ends

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.