Half Day Historical Xian Walking Tour

Tour Code: XT-SICT02

Tour Departure/ Pick-up: Hotel Pick-up around 08:30 am Daily

Tour Duration: approximate 8 hours

Tour Highlights: Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda

Itinerary

Meet our guide at your hotel and take private transfer to Shaanxi History Museum. It is China’s first large-scale modern national museum and has the style of Tang dynasty buildings. Its collection of cultural relics reaches 370,000, dating from the simple stone that human used at the initial stage in ancient times down to all kinds implements in social life before 1840.

After the museum visit, walk east to Big Wild Goose Pagoda Square. You can pay entrance fees at spot and enter the Da Cien Temple to have a close look of the pagoda. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is one of the city's most distinctive and outstanding landmarks. The adjacent Da Cien Temple is the city's best-preserved Buddhist temple complex, established in Tang Dynasty by Emperor Tang Gaozong in memory of his mother.

You can also have a leisure walk around the different featured squares and gardens around the pagoda and temple, which provides the locals and tourists with wonderful resorts for free. The most remarkable one should be the North Square boasting the largest musical fountain in Asia.

Take private transfer back to your hotel at early afternoon.