6-Day Xi'an Family Tour: Warriors, City Wall & Noodles

Morning — Arrival and Welcome
Your guide meets the family at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport and transfers you to the hotel. Younger travellers receive a welcome kit and a short orientation in which your guide sketches the week ahead.

Afternoon — Rest and Settle In
Check into the family room and rest. The afternoon is deliberately unhurried so everyone recovers from the flight.

Evening — The Muslim Quarter
Dinner in the Muslim Quarter, where narrow lanes have fed travellers since the Tang dynasty. Let the smell of hand-pulled lamian, roujiamo and yangrou paomo lead the way through this open-air feast.

Meals
Breakfast, Dinner included.

Morning — The Eighth Wonder of the World
Stand before the Terracotta Warriors. In Pit 1 more than six thousand life-sized clay soldiers stand in silent formation, their bronze weapons still gleaming after two thousand years. Your guide keeps the story at a child's eye level: who made them, why, and how they were found by farmers digging a well in 1974.

Afternoon — Junior Archaeologist
At the professional archaeology simulation centre the children become junior archaeologists. Using real tools they excavate 'relics' from a mock excavation square, learn how fragments are recorded and restored, and mould a small terracotta warrior to take home.

Evening — At Leisure
Back at the hotel, a relaxing evening — a swim in the pool, an early dinner, and an early night before tomorrow's wall ride.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — The Family Cycling Championship
The family cycling championship begins on the ancient city wall. Pedal together along the world's most complete surviving city fortification, passing gates and watchtowers with views of modern Xi'an on one side and the old grid on the other.

Afternoon — Huaxian Shadow Puppetry
Enter the world of Huaxian shadow puppetry, recognised intangible cultural heritage. Children carve their own leather puppet under a master's guidance and learn how to bring it to life behind the screen.

Evening — Hanfu at Tang Paradise
Change into Tang costume and walk through the illuminated Tang Dynasty Paradise, where thousands of lanterns light the pavilions — the evening every camera in the family will remember.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — Hanyangling Underground Museum
Walk the glass-floored corridors of the Hanyangling underground museum, suspended above the tomb of Emperor Jingdi of the Han, and look down on the ranks of pottery figures buried to serve him.

Afternoon — Daming Palace National Heritage Park
Visit Daming Palace, the seat of the Tang empire for more than two centuries. Stand on the platform of Hanyuan Hall, the main throne hall, where emperors held court and received envoys from across Asia.

Evening — At Leisure
Return to the hotel for a rest, a cup of wellness tea and an early night.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — The Guanzhong Noodle Workshop
Today's highlight is hands-on: under master noodle-makers you learn to pull biangbiang noodles — the wide, chewy, oil-dressed noodles that are Shaanxi's signature. The character for biang has more than fifty strokes, which tells you how seriously the province takes them.

Afternoon — The Xi'an Museum
Visit the Xi'an Museum, home to objects from every era of Chinese civilisation, with the Tang tri-colour glazed horse as its star — a piece whose copper glaze still shimmers.

Evening — Yongxingfang
Enter Yongxingfang, built to showcase Shaanxi's intangible culinary heritage. This is where you assemble your 'Three Qin set': the sacred trinity of Xi'an comfort food in one evening.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — Huajue Lane and the Great Mosque
Visit the Great Mosque on Huajue Lane, one of the largest and best preserved mosques in China. Founded in the Tang dynasty, it sets Arabic script and Chinese timber architecture side by side in the same courtyards, a record of more than a thousand years of Islamic life in Chang'an.

Afternoon — Shopping
Free time for last-minute shopping: cured beef, sweet fermented rice wine, date cake, hand-cut paper-cuts and calligraphy. Your guide can point you to shops the city itself buys from.

Evening — Departure
Your private transfer takes you to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport for your onward flight.

Meals
Breakfast included.