Morning fly to Xi’an, meet arrival, visit Terra Cotta museum & Hua Qing Spring Pool. Overnight Grand Metropark Hotel. (5 star)

The Terra Cotta museum is not only a treasure house, but also a main scenic spot of Xian city.  Today the eighth wonder of the world has almost become synonym of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses in 1987; the Emperor Qins Mausoleum was put on the list of the UNESCO as a world-class cultural heritage site. Now the museum is widely known as a huge modern site museum and it is going to be one of the best in the world.

Situated at the northern foot of Mt. Lishan in Lintong County, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from Xian City, Huaqing Hot Spring (also called Huaqing Pool) is famed for both its dainty spring scenery and the romantic love story of Emperor Xuanzong (685-762) and his concubine Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).  Its long history and location among the wonderful landscapes of Xian should entice any visitor to visit and bathe in this hot spring.

Visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Ancient City Wall, History Museum, and Grand Mosque.  Fly back to Beijing.

As the symbol of the old-line Xian, Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayan Pagoda) is a well-preserved ancient building and a holy place for Buddhists.  It is located in the southern suburb of Xian City, about 4 kilometers (2.49 miles) from the downtown of the city.  Standing in the Da Cien Temple complex, it attracts numerous visitors for its fame in the Buddhist religion, simple but appealing style of construction, and its new square in front of the temple.  It is rated as a National Key Cultural Relic Preserve as well as an AAAA Tourist Attraction.

The first landmark visitors will encounter in Xian is the Ancient City Wall, which stretches round the old city.  The northern side runs parallel to the railway.  Xian was originally a walled city, and even today the wall is considered a landmark dividing the city into the inner part and the outer part.  The city wall is massive - tall, long and thick. The South Gate and North Gate are the two main entrances to the inner city.  The city itself is neatly arranged along the city wall.

The Shaanxi History Museum in Xian, regarded as “the pearl of ancient dynasties and house of Chinese treasures”, gives a miniature overview of the thousands of years of Chinese history and the splendid ancient cultures of olden times.

The Grand Mosque of Xian is the largest and best preserved of the early mosques of China.  Built primarily in the Ming Dynasty when Chinese architectural elements were synthesized into mosque architecture, the mosque resembles a fifteenth century Buddhist temple with its single axis lined with courtyards and pavilions.