🛕Xi’an Itinerary (2.5 Days) 🇨🇳

#springitinerary
🏨 Hotel: Memory Garden House (Xi’an Bell Tower)
- 360m from Guangjijie Metro Station
- Prime location near Xi’an Bell Tower, Muslim Quarters (600m), convenience stores, cafés, eateries
- Great value: Spacious rooms with high ceilings, strong showers, and tea set amenities

🫖 Bell Tower Yongning Gate Elegant Hotel
🚇 Yongningmen Station (Exit A2)
⚠️ TIP: Get the high-tea set and have high-tea overlooking the 600-year-old Xi’an Ancient City Wall

🧱 Xi’an Ancient City Wall
- Entrance fee: 54 yuan
- Route: Yongning Gate ➡️ Hanguang Gate ➡️ Zhongshan Gate ➡️ Yongxingfang Gate
- Full loop: 14 km (1HR by bike)
🕰 Best time to visit: Early morning or early evening (great lighting, fewer crowds)
⚠️ Avoid night visits unless attending the lantern festival (extra cost)
🥤 Bring water/snacks for the route (some vending machines available)

👗 Jinyi Hanfu Experience Hall (锦怡汉服体验馆)
🚇 Dayanta Station (Exit B)
- Makeup (1 hour) + Photography (1 hour)
- 60 photos, 18 retouched + all raw files included
- 1198 yuan total
- ⚠️ Bring white shoes

🛕 Big Wild Goose Pagoda
- Entrance fee: 30 yuan
- Historic Buddhist site housing scriptures brought by Monk Xuanzang from India

⚱️ Terracotta Army & Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum
- Ticket fee: 120 yuan (includes both Terracotta Army + Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum + shuttle bus)
- Suggested route: Pit 1 ➡️ Pit 3 ➡️ Pit 2 ➡️ Cultural Relic Hall
-⚠️Must-try: Terracotta Army-shaped ice cream
-⚠️Beware of touts: Walk further out to safely book your own Didi/Alipay app
-⚠️Highly recommended to get a guide (Mandarin guide = 38 yuan, much more detailed)

Getting There
🚗 Didi: 120–130 yuan one way (recommended for return trip)
🚆 Public Transport: Metro to Huaqingchi Station (Line 9, Exit D) → Bus 613 (5 yuan) to Bingmayong Station (est. 1.5 hrs)

💐Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Site Park
- Spend around 1 hour max. (actual tomb is unexcavated)
- Use the 45 yuan battery cart (vast area)
- Route: 9901 Exhibition Hall ➡️ Bronze Chariot Museum ➡️ Pit 0006

🕌 Great Mosque of Xi’an
📍 Beiyuanmen Street
- Entrance fee: 25 yuan (CASH ONLY)
-Ancient mosque that dates back to the Tang Dynasty + mix of Chinese and Islamic architecture
-⚠️ Prayer Hall & Bathrooms not accessible to public

🍽 Must-Try Dishes in Muslim Quarters
- Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup
- Lamb Skewers
- Mutton Soup with Steamed Bun
- Cold Rice Noodles with Sesame Paste (Liang Pi)
- Beef Ball Spicy Soup
- Fresh Pomegranate Juice

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