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A guide who works this city daily and orders the stops by traffic and opening hours.
China · Xi'an
Private Guide & Car Hire in Xi'an
Made to order Guide · Escort · Car · Translation · Transfers Chinese · English · Korean
Theme
- Terracotta Warriors
- City Wall Cycling
- Wild Goose Pagoda
- Muslim Quarter
- Museums
- Shaanxi Noodles
Licensed local guideItinerary before paymentNo shopping stops
Ground services in Xi'an
Guide, escort, car, translation, transfers, family and photo — book one or combine them.
- Best months
- March–May, September–October
- Days needed
- 3 days
- Arriving
- Xianyang airport 50 min, North Station 30 min
- Typical day
- CNY 800–1,000 (≈US$111–139) car + guide
Quotes are in CNY; US$ figures are indicative at about CNY 7.2 = US$1 and move with the daily rate. Final price is confirmed by our team before you pay.
Local escort
No rushing, no pushing sales. Point ordering, photos and looking after the kids, half or full day.
Private car & driver
5 to 19 seats, priced per day with fuel and tolls included. The driver knows the coach parks.
Translation
English, Japanese and Korean available; good for business visits and independent travellers.
Airport & rail transfers
Name-board pickup, 60 minutes free waiting when a flight is delayed.
Family & school trips
Museums and ruins explained by age, with breaks and meal time kept in the plan.
Photo session
Half a day of shooting, 20–30 retouched photos, shot along the same route as the sightseeing.
Not sure what to book?
Send dates and party size, get an itinerary back first.
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01What to see
Xi'an: the four places that matter
Ordered the way you should actually visit them, not by fame.
Three pits, 8,000 figures, no two faces alike. Go at opening; the site is 40 km east.
14 km around the old city, wide enough to cycle; rent a bike at the South Gate.
The best collection in northwest China. Free but timed tickets, book days ahead.
A Tang-era mosque in Chinese courtyard form, inside the food lanes.
Tickets, hours and how to visit Muslim Quarter & Great Mosque →
02Two-day plan
How we would plan your two days
Built around opening times and traffic, not around a list of attractions.
Day 1 · The army
Leave at 8:00 for the Terracotta Army, three hours on site, return via Huaqing Palace, city wall at sunset.
Day 2 · City inside the walls
Shaanxi Museum in the morning, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Muslim Quarter in the evening for lamb skewers.
Day 3 · Tombs or Huashan
Han Yangling or Qianling tombs for mural painting, or a full day at Huashan if you want the cliff plank walk.
Local notes
- Hire the official guide at the Terracotta Army or use the audio guide; without context it is three pits of statues.
- The Muslim Quarter is a tourist street — the good food is one lane west, on Dapiyuan.
- Shaanxi Museum tickets release three days ahead at 8:00 and vanish in minutes.
03Where to stay
Pick the area first, the hotel second
The wrong district costs you an hour a day in traffic.
Inside the walls (Bell Tower)
Walk to the wall, the mosque and the food streets.
Qujiang
Near the museum and the pagoda, newer hotels, quieter.
04What to eat
Two things you should not leave without trying
Yangrou paomoCrumbled flatbread in lamb broth, ¥30–45; crumble it yourself.
Biangbiang noodlesHand-pulled wide noodles with chilli oil, ¥25–35.
05What goes wrong
Three things that catch first-time visitors
- Hire the official guide at the Terracotta Army or use the audio guide; without context it is three pits of statues.
- The Muslim Quarter is a tourist street — the good food is one lane west, on Dapiyuan.
- Shaanxi Museum tickets release three days ahead at 8:00 and vanish in minutes.
06Questions
Xi'an: questions travellers actually ask
How do I get to the Terracotta Army?
A car is 50 minutes; the tourist bus 5 (306) takes 90 minutes from the station.
Is the city wall worth cycling?
Yes — 14 km, about 90 minutes, and the best way to see the old city layout.
How many days for Xi’an?
Three: army, city, and one tomb or mountain day.
The full guide runs to four pages — in Chinese
Tickets, opening hours, hour-by-hour itineraries and eighteen local questions. Machine translation handles these pages well; send us a screenshot if anything is unclear.
How booking Xi'an works — three steps, itinerary before price
No deposit to get a plan, and nothing is locked in before you agree to it.
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Send the brief
Dates, party size, how you arrive and what you want to see. Tell us the working language you need and whether anyone has trouble with stairs.
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Get a route and a price
We order the stops by location and traffic, then quote per car per day with fuel, tolls and the driver included. Ask for changes as often as you need — it costs nothing.
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Confirm and travel
Only after you accept the route and the price do we assign the car and guide. You get their contact details before pickup, so you are never handed off to a stranger.
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