GET TO XIAN FROM Beijing IN EARLY MORNING
Travel Options
Travel to Xian On Bullet Train, and fly back to Beijing in the evening.
Take the 6:20 am bullet train from Beijing West Railway Station to Xi'an. Arrive in Xi'an at noon. Our driver will pick you up at the hotel at 5:30 am and take you to the Beijing West Train Station.
Our English-speaking guide and driver in Xian will meet you inside the station. We will arrange for you to have a casual lunch. After that you will go to the famous Terracotta Warriors. Visiting the Terracotta Warriors is the only purpose of your trip to Xi'an. The tour, including the time needed to travel from Xi'an to the Terracotta Warriors Highway, is almost an afternoon. After the tour, we have to make a quick trip to the airport. Your return flight is between 8-10pm.
Back at the airport in Beijing, our driver will take you back to your Beijing hotel.
Travel to Xian On Bullet Train, and fly back to Beijing in the evening.
You leave Beijing for Xi'an by plane around 7:00. Our driver will pick you up at the hotel at 5:30 am and take you to the Beijing airport. The flight takes two hours and you arrive in Xi'an.
Our English-speaking guide and driver will meet you inside the airport. We will proceed directly to the famous Terracotta Warriors. Visiting the Terracotta Warriors is the main purpose of your visit to Xian. After the tour, you will be served lunch at the Terracotta Warriors Museum Restaurant.
After that, we quickly head back to the city to visit the ancient city walls of Xi'an. (You may not get a chance to visit the wall if the road is congested with traffic.) After that, we will quickly make our way to Xi'an North Station. Your return HSR is at 6:20 p.m. at the latest, or you can take the 4:30 p.m. HSR back to Beijing (which will only take you to visit the Terracotta Warriors now).
Back at Beijing West Railway Station, our driver will take you back to your Beijing hotel.
Travel to Xian both ways with flights.
You leave Beijing for Xi'an by plane around 7:00. Our driver will pick you up at the hotel at 5:30 am and take you to the Beijing airport. The flight takes two hours and you arrive in Xi'an.
Our English-speaking guide and driver will meet you inside the airport. We will proceed directly to the famous Terracotta Warriors. Visiting the Terracotta Warriors is the main purpose of your visit to Xian. After the tour, you will be served lunch at the Terracotta Warriors Museum Restaurant.
After that, we quickly head back to the city to visit the ancient city walls of Xi'an. After that, we will quickly make our way to the airport. Your return flight is between 8-10pm.
Back at the airport in Beijing, our driver will take you back to your Beijing hotel.
XIAN TOUR ATTRACTIONS THAT YOU MAY VISIT FOR ONE DAY
The Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit is located south of Xiyang village, 1.5 km east of the mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and is the burial pit of the First Emperor of Qin. Three terracotta warrior pits have been discovered, which are numbered as one, two and three. The three terracotta pits cover an area of more than 20,000 square meters, with terracotta figurines and terracotta horses similar in size to real people and real horses nearly 8,000 pieces. There are different types of soldiers such as carriages, cavalry and infantry, arranged in a neat and orderly manner. The figures of terracotta figures are different and vivid, which is a pearl in the history of ancient Chinese sculpture, known as "the eighth largest in the world". Miracle" and "one of the great discoveries in the archaeological history of the twentieth century".
Xian Ancient City Wall
The Xi'an City Wall, the iconic landscape of the ancient capital of Xi'an, is the best-preserved ancient city wall in China to date. The Ming City Wall was built in the early Ming Dynasty and is located in the city center, the wall is 12 meters high, 12-14 meters wide at the top and 15-18 meters wide at the bottom. The outline is a closed rectangle with a circumference of 13.74 km and an area of 11.32 km2. The walls include a series of military facilities such as moat (6), drawbridge (5), moon castle (4), gate tower (3), weng castle (2), arrow tower, main tower (1), corner tower, enemy tower, daughter wall, battlements and so on.
There are mountain bike rental rides on the city walls, divided into single and tandem mountain bike rentals, which last 120 minutes.