Terracotta Warriors Museum Tour: Discover Ancient Chinese History and Craftsmanship

Immerse yourself in ancient Chinese history and craftsmanship on a tour of the Terracotta Warriors Museum. Explore the UNESCO-listed clay army, visit a terracotta figure factory, and learn the fascinating story behind these 3rd-century BC warriors.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses - In the morning, your professional guide will pick you up at your hotel lobby, and then a comfortable and capacious chauffeur-driven van will transfer you to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. With one hour on the way, your expert guide will give you some background information of the world wonder that you are going to explore. Follow your guide to see the three excavated pits with more than 8,000 pottery soldiers, horses. You will have at least two and a half hours to explore this significant site.
  • Muslim Quarter - After the terracotta warriors tour We will be the Muslim Bazaar, the most thriving area of the city. If you are interested, you can explore the bazaar at your own pace and then return to the hotel on your own. Your guide will give you directions for returning to your hotel. The Great Mosque and the Bell and Drum Tower Square are within walking distance of the Bazaar. The Bazaar offers a number of excellent choices for dinner. If you prefer not to go to the Muslim Bazaar, your guide will take you back to the hotel after dropping the others off at the Bazaar.
What's Included
  • Professional English-speaking tour guide
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Terracotta Warriors Admission Ticket
What's Not Included
  • Meals
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Arrive at Terracotta Warriors Museum. Your guide will explain every details of this museum and its history as well facts. As the world’s eighth wonder, Terracotta Warriors Museum represented the highest clay craftsmanship. It also provided a great source for historians to study the Qin Dynasty and its prior histories. Through the visit to the Terracotta Army, you can have a general idea of how prosperous Qin Empire used to be and what ancient people hold dear in their afterlife. View the ancient UNESCO-listed clay army in the flesh Gaze at the rows of infantry and cavalry soldiers in excavated pits Visit a terracotta figure factory to see how to make terracotta warriors. * Learn how and why the 3rd-century BC warriors were made

Location
Bell Tower Hotel Xian
南大街
If traveler don't need pick up ,traveler can go to this meeting point waiting for the guide and driver.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Nuraini
Mar 5, 2024
Enjoyable tour - Our guide nancie was very nice & informative. On the way to the terracotta army she briefed us on the history and patiently answered our questions.
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Michael_p
Oct 27, 2023
Great way to see the warriors - We really enjoyed our morning visiting the Terra-cotta warriors. We were picked up on time and given comfortable transportation to the site. Our guide was really good and explained a lot about the origins of the warriors. On the way back we weren’t rushed or pressured into a shop or anything like that. Got back to Xian about 2pm. A really good day out.
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Kanwarjit_g
Oct 4, 2023
Amazing warriors - Must see experience and Nancy made it seamless. Her English and insight were both great! She was patient and arrived early to be sure we left on time
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Oceananz
Oct 25, 2023
Definitely visit, be prepared for crowds - Definitely worth seeing but crowds for a quiet day were immense, get the earliest time possible. Pick up was late but good communication from the tour operators meant no drama. Guide was good and managed the crowds well.
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Ronan_m
Oct 17, 2023
Amazing - Amazing wonderful piece of history to visit, a must see when visiting Xian, China. Our guide was great but a little hard to hear and understand
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Dimitrios_d
Sep 26, 2023
Unique experience - A truly unique experience a must see site!! Don't miss it. It's always a bit crowded but it's worth it. Don't miss it!!
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Jenny_s
Oct 26, 2023
Great experience but find another tour - The Terracotta Warriors is a must see when in Xi’an. The sight is awesome. However, the hour ride there and back were not very comfortable in the packed 7 seater. The museum was super crowded and I wasn’t very impressed with the guide’s sharing. Pretty much similar to what you would get online.
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Austin_l
Jun 28, 2024
Great experience but poorly organized tour company - Terracotta warriors was incredible but the tour was poorly organized. The driver picked up the wrong person at my hotel because he didn’t check the name. I was stranded until I got in contact with the organizer and they came back to drop the other person off and pick me up. He probably missed his tour because of this, when I was waiting there was another tour pickup looking for someone who couldn’t be found. The low rating on this is due to the driver’s error, checking names of people he’s picking up is the bare minimum and someone else missed their tour to no fault of their own or the tour company he booked with. The actual experience was pretty cool, the excavation sites are massive but it is very crowded and difficult to get around as a result. I would definitely recommend the Terra-cotta warriors but not in peak season and probably not with this tour company.
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Holly_m
Nov 8, 2023
Good informative guide, but very disorganised and late-running day which was cut short for another group member - I selected a pick-up time of 8:30, but was ready by 8 just in case the guide was early, as other reviews have suggested. Instead, our guide arrived late, at around 9, and walked us to the bus, where most of the group was already waiting. We then waited in the bus until about 9:40 for the final member to arrive before we could leave. (Maybe that member had selected the 9:30 pick-up time? The pick-up slot system for this tour really needs to change). It then took us around 1h20m to drive to the terracotta warriors, and another half an hour to get in due to queues (we were inside by 11:30). The tour itself was good, and our guide was very informative and told us lots of interesting facts about the history. However, we did not spend 2h30m at the site, as advertised. We spent just 1 hour walking around the 3 buildings of the terracotta warriors complex. After this, our group was taken to see the farmer who first discovered the warriors. We were told that normally we would have an hour or so to explore the area around and eat lunch (it was around 12:45 PM at this time), but instead we had to leave after only 15 minutes, as somebody else in the group had booked a flight and we were going to drive her to the taxi stop in Xi'an. I.e., rather than ask her to her take a taxi directly from the terracotta warriors site, which is absolutely possible, they decided to cut the tour short for the rest of our group instead, leaving us no time to get food (or souvenirs). When we got back to Xi'an, at something like 2:30 PM, there was no "optional tour of the Muslim quarter" either, since our guide got out at the City Wall with some other members of the group who requested to stop there.
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Christine_l
Oct 28, 2023
Bad organization - I was supposed to be picked up from my hotel at 8 but the guide showed up 15 minutes late and said that we needed to wait for another person. After about 20 more minutes of waiting, he realized that he was waiting at the wrong hotel. We drove some 10-15 more minutes and I joined 6 others who were already there. But we all had to sit in the car for about 30 more minutes because we were still waiting for one more person. By the time we actually left for the tour, it was 9:20. Isn’t there a policy for not waiting for people who are late?
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