Tour code: BC-PH-01-I
Focus:Xian Day Tour from Beijing by Train, Shaanxi History Museum, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Great Mosque.
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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 Shaanxi History Museum - a magnificent architectural complex in the Tang Dynasty style. It is the first huge state museum with modern facilities in China.
Then visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Originally built in 652 of Tang Dynasty, the pagoda is functioned to collect Buddhist materials that were taken from India by the hierarch Xuanzang. Now it is Landmark of the Xian.
Move on to visit Great Mosque - one of the oldest and best-preserved mosques in China. Now, it is still an important spot for religious activities of over 60,000 Muslims in Xian. Unlike most mosques in Middle Eastern or Arab countries, the Mosque possesses much Chinese tradition with design and artistic outlook.
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)