5 Hours Xian Metro Tour to City Wall & Big Wild Goose Pagoda

From USD $58.00
  • Duration: 5 Hours (approx.)
  • Location: Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
  • Product code: CXT114
The tour has 3 different starting times to well fit your own condition: 9am, 11am, 2pm. 

Our tour guide will contact you one day in advance to reconfirm the picking up time and meeting place. The guide will pick you up from your downtown hotel (if your hotel is beyond downtown area, please ask supplier a downtown place to meet our guide) and then take a bus/taxi or walk to the nearest metro station. You will follow our guide to see how to buy metro tickets and how to check in, get very close to local people's life and get to today's first stop: Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It was built in Tang Dynasty 652 A.D. for the purpose of preserving the Buddhist sculptures brought from India to Chang'an (ever name of Xi'an) by XuanZang. With tour guide's explanation to its background, you will get a better idea about religious, political and cultural life of that great dynasty. You will stay about one hour here.

Afterwards, walk to the Dayan Tower Metro Station and then head to Yongning Gate Station for City Wall. Xian City Wall is the best preserved and largest scaled city wall in China as so far. It was built in Ming Dynasty (1370 A.D.) for military defense. You will get a special feeling to walk on it when getting to know that it's older than 600 years. Riding a bike on it is usually a good optional activity for most travelers (cost on your own). You will spend 1-2 hours here.

Finally, you can ask our guide to lead you to the Muslim Quarter to have your free time at the famous snack street (the guide will show you how to find your way back to your hotel by metro, taxi or bus) or let the tour guide to buy your back-way metro ticket and depart with him/her here. You will make your own way to your hotel like a real local Xian people. Service ends here.


Price includes:

-English-speaking tour guide

-Entry tickets for City Wall and Big Wild Goose Pagoda

-Public transportation fees including metro between attractions and bus/taxi from your downtown hotel to nearest metro station


Price excludes:

-Any meal

-Tip to the tour guide (highly recommended)

-Optional items (ride a bike on the City Wall / climb Big Will Goose Pagoda)

-The subway/taxi fee for the return way (you can ask the guide to help buy subway tickets for you)