2 Day Private Leisure Tour of Xi’an

The Museum of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is located in Lintong District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. It is a large-scale heritage museum built on the foundation of the Terracotta Army Museum and supported by the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Site Park (Lishan Garden). Centered on the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and its numerous burial pits, the museum serves as a public cultural space integrating education, scientific research, sightseeing and leisure, with a focus on the conservation and display of the archaeological site and its surrounding environment.

In 2007, the Museum of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was designated as one of China’s first batch of national AAAAA-level tourist attractions. It comprises two sites: the Terracotta Army Museum and Lishan Garden.

It is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level. The site boasts a 6,000-year history of hot spring utilization and a 3,000-year history as an imperial palace retreat. In the 6th year of the Tianbao reign of the Tang Dynasty (747 AD), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang carried out large-scale expansion and named it Huaqing Palace. Popularly known as Huaqing Pool for its numerous hot spring bathing pools, it served as the Tang imperial summer resort and bathing palace. Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei resided here for long periods. The famous line from *Song of Everlasting Sorrow* by Bai Juyi — "When spring brings chill, she is granted a bath at Huaqing Pool; the smooth hot spring water washes her creamy skin" — depicts this very place.

Created by Huaxia Culture Tourism, the show officially premiered in 2017. Centered on the Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty and the Belt and Road Initiative, it boasts 47 patented stage technologies. Its most distinctive feature is the 360° rotating mobile auditorium. As the seats revolve with the storyline, audiences experience immersive shifting scenes and changing settings. Live animals including camels and trained grey wolves perform on stage, paired with realistic special effects such as avalanches, volcanic eruptions and high-altitude water dives. The show has won the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement and is included in the National List of Excellent Tourism Performances.

A national first-class museum and 4A-level tourist attraction, it officially opened to the public on May 18, 2007. Integrating museum, pagoda and garden as one complex, it consists of three major parts: a modern exhibition hall, the ruins of the Tang Dynasty Jianfu Temple, and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda (a World Cultural Heritage site). The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a heritage site of the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor. The museum houses more than 110,000 pieces/sets of cultural relics, among which over 10,000 are precious artifacts. Most were unearthed in Xi’an, presenting the developmental history of Chang’an, the capital of thirteen dynasties. Its permanent main exhibition is Ancient Capital Chang’an, alongside special exhibitions of Buddhist statues and ancient jadeware.

Located in the downtown area of Xi’an and encircling the old city, Xi’an City Wall is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and one of the first batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level. The existing wall was built between the 7th and 11th years of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty (1374–1378), expanded on the foundation of the imperial city ruins of the Tang Dynasty. With a history of over 600 years, it is the largest and best-preserved ancient city rampart surviving in China. It underwent repeated renovations in the Ming and Qing dynasties. New gates were opened successively after the Republic of China era. Large-scale restorations were carried out in modern times, forming an integrated complex consisting of the city wall, moat and city-ring park.

Completed in 1998 and covering an area of 2.18 hectares, this square is known as Xi’an’s “City Living Room”. It is an urban project combining old city renovation and cultural heritage conservation.

Historically, this site was where the government office of the Ministry of Secretaries stood in the Tang Dynasty. After demolishing the old buildings between the Bell Tower and Drum Tower, the two towers now face each other from east to west, recreating the ancient spatial layout of “morning bell and evening drum”. The square comprises a ground green plaza, sunken square and underground commercial street, equipped with a musical fountain. It serves as a leisure spot for locals in the daytime and glimmers with splendid lights at night, making it the ideal location to photograph the night views of the Bell and Drum Towers. The Muslim Quarter is within walking distance to the west, enjoying an extremely central location.

Dating back to the Tang Dynasty, the opening of the Silk Road brought numerous Arab and Persian merchants to settle in Chang’an, forming the early foreign settlement known as Fanfang. It evolved through the Song and Yuan dynasties, and by the Ming and Qing dynasties, a well-established Hui residential layout of “Seven Mosques and Thirteen Neighbourhoods” took shape, with a history of more than a thousand years. During the Qing Dynasty, Beiyuanmen housed the office of the Shaanxi Governor. In the 1990s, it was renovated into an antique-style tourist food street and has become Xi’an’s iconic block of folk culture.

It is a National Demonstration Pedestrian Street and part of the AAAAA-level Giant Wild Goose Pagoda Scenic Area, an open-style pedestrian street featuring Tang-dynasty aesthetics. Stretching from the South Square of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the north to the Tang City Wall Ruins Park in the south, the pedestrian street has a total length of 2,100 meters. Phase I was completed in 2009. The street underwent renovation and upgrading in 2018 and reopened in 2019. Centered on prosperous Tang culture, it integrates Tang-style architecture, lighting, sculptures and interactive street performances, making it Xi’an’s most famous landmark for night tours.