Your city tour will begin with a visit to Shaanxi History Museum, one of the best museums in China. It houses more than 370,000 piece of items including pottery, paintings, murals, as well as gold, silver & bronze objects and it must not be missed. Then go to visit Big Wild Goose Pagoda, built in 652 AD. It is a traditional Chinese-style architecture combined with Buddhist historic statues, murals, and scriptures. It is the landmark of the ancient capital city.
Continue your visit to tThe best-preserved Ancient City Wall. It has been guarding the old Xian for more than 600 years. Walking along the wall and you will enjoy the wonderful view of the city, or you can rent a bicycle to cycle around the all.
At the end of today, take a chance to stroll around the Muslim Street, where all the shops and restaurants are operated by Muslims. This colorful street is packed with shops selling a large variety of interesting local delicacies, snacks and souvenirs.Here you will also have the opportunity to visit Gao’s Courtyard, which is a traditional Chinese dwelling located in the Muslim quarter. It exhibits ancient paintings, calligraphy, porcelain, pottery and demonstrations folk art. You will enjoy a fantastic shadow puppet play with fork music.
The rest of the day is free at your leisure.Please remember to have a good rest today and well prepare your equipment, because you will enter Tibet in the following morning, where is a high altitude region with an average elevation of around 4,500 meters.
Good to know
Dumplings play an important role in Chinese people’s lives, if you want to have a try, we would like to suggest you to have a Dumpling Banquet for lunch. You will be served with nearly 20 varieties of dumplings which stuffed with delicious vegetables, meats, and seafood (vegetarian on request).