Xian One Day Tour from Beijing By Train to Art Museum, Bell and Drum Tower and Shuyuanmen Street

Itinerary

Be picked up by private car and English speaking tour guide from your hotel and transferred to the Beijing West Station.

The tour guide from Beijingservice.com will lead you to take overnight train Z19 (21:24 - 08:25 am) for xian. Our guide will show you to your train carriage.

Arrive in xian at 08:25 am. Our xian tour guide will hold a sign ready your name to meet you in Xian Railway Station.

Visit a Folk Art Museum. Covering an area of 329, 253 square metes, the buildings and gardens in this museum are Ming and Qing styles. More than 33,600 culture relics including stone carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings, ancient residences of Guanzhong, calligraphic and painting works have been housed here. The main attractions are 40 ancient civilian residences from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, folk custom exhibit hall, theater tower and the garden.

Drive to visit the Bell and Drum Tower. With an area of 1377sqm and a height of 40m, Xian Bell Tower is one of the grandest of its kind. The Tower is an exquisitely constructed wooden architecture and houses a number of large bronze-cast bells from the Tang Dynasty.
Located northwest of the Bell Tower, Drum Tower is the biggest drum in China at present. Built in the Ming Dynasty, the two-storey Drum Tower features an architectural style of the Tang and Qing Dynasties. There is a a drum museum with a variety of ancient drums in the Drum Tower.

Then visit Shuyuanmen Street. It is a pedestrian street from Stele Forest Museum to the gate of Guanzhong Academy. There is a high archway(pailou) with ancient style at the entrance of the street. On both side are all antique building.

Be transferred back to xian Railway station to connect overnight train Z20 (20:16-07:17am) to Beijing.

Our Beijing tour guide will wait you at the entrance of your train carriage. Be transferred back to your Beijing Hotel.
(Lunch)