Private Tour: Terracotta Army Museum and Xi'an City Highlights

Take a golf cart from the parking area to the museum entrance for your 2.5-hour visit (at your own expense). Enter Pit 3 considered to be the command post as it contains only 68 warriors and 1 chariot. Continue to Pit 2, which contains 80 chariots plus 1,800 warriors and horses. Visit Pit 1, where 60 crossbowmen stand and 160 crossbowmen are squatting in the ready position. Head to the Bronze Chariot Exhibition Hall where the earliest and most well-preserved bronze chariots in all of China are housed.

cient building and a holy place for buddhists.

As the capital of 13 imperial dynasties in Chinese history, Xi'an is endowed with rich treasures in both culture and substance. Thanks to that, Shaanxi History Museum, the first large-scaled modern national museum of China, got the chance to preserve a great number of the historic and cultural relics.

e undoubtedly the crucial defense points that feudalistic rulers focused on. Therefore, city walls were constructed nationally when the emperor unified the country. The circumvallation in Xi'an today was one of the achievements, which was built and expanded on the former imperial city of Tang Dynasty (618-907).

alls selling a myriad of snack foods and delightful oriental knick-knacks.