The tour guide and driver will pick you up from the airport, then transfer you to the local hotel.

On this day the tour guide and driver will pick you up from the hotel in the morning then you will spend the whole morning visiting the amazing Terracotta Warriors. Be dumbfound by the neatly arranged life-size army that has stood silently over the guard of Qin Shi Huang's soul for more than two millennia. After that, we will continue to visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda that was used to house the Buddhist statues and sutras brought back from India by the master monk Xuanzang.

Dinner will be served with the famous dumpling banquet where you will get a chance to savor a scrumptious selection of filled dumplings, later you get mesmerized by the fancy Tang Dynasty Show with a perfect choreographed dance.

Today's tour starts from Shaanxi History Museum, which offers the large collection of historical items which reflect Chinese culture and history from the prehistory period to the mid 20th century. The museum is also the first modernized museum in China. Later, you will visit one of the landmarks of Xian-City Wall, have a glimpse of Xian's past grandeur. You can either walk or rent a bicycle to ride on the wall and have a panoramic view of this ancient city.

After lunch, you will visit the oldest, largest and best-preserved Islamic mosque in Xian, the Great Mosque. Though it is an Islamic mosque, it was constructed in the traditional Chinese style, so the buildings are pavilions with painted columns and flying eaves rather than domes and minarets. On the way to the mosque, you will walk through a local snack street, Muslim Street, where you can see much delicious local food and interesting souvenirs. 

After breakfast, you will take a high-speed train to Luoyang ( 2 hours). After arrival, a tour guide will greet you then straightly take you to visit the Longmen Grottoes. The carving work has lasted over 400 years from the Northern Wei dynasty to the Northern Song dynasty and you can tell that Buddhist culture is so prosperous from the late 5th century to the 10th century. 

Enjoy a walk on the river banks admiring the Buddha statues in addition to the lush green scenery around the cave, afterward visit the White Horse Temple to soak in the spiritual atmosphere and get to learn why the temple is regarded as the cradle of Chinese Buddhism.                     

In the morning, you will visit Shaolin Monastery for a Kung Fu tour. Situated among the dense forest at the foot of Mount Song, it was greatly expanded when Bodhidharma, a famous Indian monk and the patriarch of Chinese Zen, came to impart Zen Buddhism to China. Besides its long history, the temple is more famous for Shaolin martial arts and you could visit performances today Later, pay a short visit to Pagoda Forest. After the tour, you will be sent to the airport or railway station for departure.