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Xi'an Layover Tour: Terracotta Army and City Highlights
4.8
20 Ratings
Xi'an
Even during a brief layover in Xi’an, this private one-day tour makes it possible to visit the renowned Terracotta Army Museum among other notable sites. A dedicated personal tour guide will present you with the major attractions of Xi’an. This stopover tour includes round-trip airport transport via a private vehicle.
Even during a brief layover in Xi’an, this private one-day tour makes it possible to visit the renowned Terracotta Army Museum among other notable sites. A dedicated personal tour guide will present you with the major attractions of Xi’an. This stopover tour includes round-trip airport transport via a private vehicle.
Duration:
9 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses - Frequent schedules of flight and train make it possible to take a one-day round trip to Xi’an from Beijing. To ensure enough time for this day tour, you’re suggested to reach Xi’an before 09:00 in the morning and leave after 20:00.
Your private guide and driver in Xi’an will pick you up at the…
- The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses - Frequent schedules of flight and train make it possible to take a one-day round trip to Xi’an from Beijing. To ensure enough time for this day tour, you’re suggested to reach Xi’an before 09:00 in the morning and leave after 20:00.
Your private guide and driver in Xi’an will pick you up at the airport on time and escort you to the Terracotta Army which is praised as one of the “Eight Wonders of the World”, containing three pits as well as the Museum of Bronze Chariots and Horses. You will spend at least 2.5 hours there to know more about this world’s miracle. Lunch is not included and you can have meals at a nearby Chinese or Western restaurant according to your taste.
- Xi’an City Wall (Chengqiang) - Then your Terracotta Warrior tour continues to the ancient City Wall - the most well-preserved and largest ancient city wall in China. Your tour guide will tell you stories and the history about this brilliant relic. Cycling on the ancient wall will be an exciting experience (the bike rental fee is at your expense).
- Muslim Quarter - Later, the guide will accompany you to visit the lively Muslim Quarter, which is a food lover’s paradise. You can find all kinds of dried fruits, nuts, bread, pastries, barbecued beef, lamb and etc.
After that, your tour guide and driver will transfer you back to the airport or railway stations for your onward flight or train back to Beijing.
What's Included
- Air conditioned car with chauffeur
- Professional English-speaking tour guide
- Complimentary bottled water with unlimited supplies
- Round-trip airport transfer
- Air conditioned car with chauffeur
- Professional English-speaking tour guide
- Complimentary bottled water with unlimited supplies
- Round-trip airport transfer
What's Not Included
- Meals
- Gratuities
- Flights or trains
- Bicycle rental fee on the City Wall
- Entrance fees - pay on the spot: CNY189/US$26 per person (except Tuesday) CNY214/US$30 (Tuesday)
- Meals
- Gratuities
- Flights or trains
- Bicycle rental fee on the City Wall
- Entrance fees - pay on the spot: CNY189/US$26 per person (except Tuesday) CNY214/US$30 (Tuesday)
Additional Information
- No tourist shops, factories, tea ceremonies and shopping site restaurants take up your valuable time, which ensures you a pure sightseeing experience.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- It’s the best that you reach Xi’an in the early morning before 09:00 and leave after 20:00 so as to ensure enough time for the one day Xi’an private tour.
- No tourist shops, factories, tea ceremonies and shopping site restaurants take up your valuable time, which ensures you a pure sightseeing experience.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- It’s the best that you reach Xi’an in the early morning before 09:00 and leave after 20:00 so as to ensure enough time for the one day Xi’an private tour.
Location
The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
Qinling North Road, Lintong District,
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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