5-Day Xi'an Classic: Terracotta Army, City Wall & Tang Show

Morning/Afternoon — Arrival & Hotel Check-in
A tour bus transfers you from the airport or railway station, and you check into your hotel in the Qujiang or High-tech District. These areas sit close to the city's cultural tourism hubs, with recommended options near Da Tang Pedestrian Street. Your guide will assist with check-in and brief you on the days ahead.

Afternoon — Lunch & Free Time
Lunch is served at your hotel, followed by free time to explore the hotel surroundings. You may stroll in the nearby Qujiang Pool Ruins Park or familiarize yourself with the area around Da Tang Eternal City.

Evening — Da Tang Eternal City (17:30–20:00)
Take an evening stroll along Da Tang Eternal City, a 2.1-kilometer pedestrian boulevard themed around the prosperity of the Tang dynasty and lined with elaborate light installations, sculptures, and street performances. You can experience immersive Tang Dynasty performances such as 'Secret Box of the Great Tang' and 'Unmovable Beauty', and optionally rent Tang Dynasty costumes for photos. The 'Chang'an 12 Hours' themed block is also nearby.

Night — Dinner at a Local Restaurant
Dinner is arranged at a local restaurant to close the day.

Meals
Breakfast at the hotel; lunch at the hotel; dinner at a local restaurant.

Accommodation
Check in at a hotel in the Qujiang or High-tech District.

Morning — The Terracotta Warriors
This is not a history lesson, it is a confrontation. Standing at the edge of Pit No. 1 looking out over thousands of clay soldiers, the scale of what one emperor ordered into production is hard to take in. Your guide covers the three pits and the Bronze Chariot hall.

Afternoon — Huaqing Palace
Continue to Huaqing Palace, where the most famous love story in Chinese history played out around natural hot springs, and where the drama of empire and the drama of a single consort are inseparable.

Evening — Sajinqiao Night Market
Dinner at the Sajinqiao night market, a working-class neighbourhood where motorbikes weave between food carts and grandmothers argue cheerfully with vendors over the price of skewers.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — The Ming City Wall
Walk the ramparts of the Ming city wall, the most complete ancient defensive structure in China. It runs 13.7 kilometres around the old centre; taken at an unhurried pace it is a slow read of the city, past the gates and watchtowers, with the streets laid out twelve metres below.

Afternoon — The Stele Forest
Enter the Stele Forest, a sanctuary of more than two thousand stone inscriptions spanning the Han dynasty to the Qing and the greatest repository of Chinese calligraphy anywhere. The texts were carved in order to be copied, so walking the courtyards is the quickest way to see how the script itself changed.

Evening — The Great Mosque and the Muslim Quarter
Finish on Huajue Lane at the Great Mosque, founded in the Tang dynasty and one of the largest and best preserved in China, where Arabic script and Chinese timber architecture stand side by side in the same courtyards. The lanes around it are the Muslim Quarter, and dinner is here.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — Xi'an Museum and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda
Trace thirteen dynasties at the Xi'an Museum, then climb the grounds of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, built in the Tang to house the scriptures Xuanzang brought back from India.

Afternoon — The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and a Tang Tea Ceremony
Visit the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, where the monk Xuanzang translated the scriptures he carried from India. Continue into the Tang Dynasty Lotus Garden for a tea ceremony in the Tang manner — the tea is boiled, not steeped — led by a scholar who places it in the context of Chang'an and the Silk Road.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included.

Morning — Free
The pace of the programme is deliberately broken on the last morning. Families who want one more circuit of the wall can walk or cycle a section of it from the nearest gate; those who would rather shop will find the mosque quarter a short walk from most central hotels and still busy in the morning. Nothing is scheduled, so the group can sleep in after the evening food streets.

Lunch — Farewell Lunch
A farewell lunch in the city centre, with time afterwards to finish packing and settle the room.

Afternoon — Departure
Your guide transfers the group to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (XIY) for the flight home, or to Xi'an North Railway Station for the high-speed service to Beijing, Zhengzhou or Chengdu, assisting with luggage and check-in. Families extending the trip can continue to Chengdu or Shanghai on the same rail network, and your guide will confirm the platform and seat allocations before departure.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch included.