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8-Day Private Silk Road Tour: Xi'an,Zhangye,Jiayuguan,Dunhuang,Turpan,Urumqi

8-Day Private Silk Road Tour: Xi'an,Zhangye,Jiayuguan,Dunhuang,Turpan,Urumqi

By Jeff Ning China Tour
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$7,471 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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  • 8d
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  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

From Xi’an to Urumqi, the eastern end to the western end of the Silk Road in China, this Silk Road tour offers you the chance to see the highlights along the Silk Road. Visit the most significant archaeological excavations of the 20th century-Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses;explore one of the most popular trade centre betwwen ancient China and West; You will see marvellous landscapes, the extraordinary culture, and have authentic interaction with the locals. With an English-speaking guide leading the way, learn the history of China’s ancient capital and explore its celebrated food culture.4 to 5 star hotel accommodation (optional)

Activity location

  • The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
    • Qinling North Road, Lintong District,
    • 710600, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
    • Qinling North Road, Lintong District,
    • 710600, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

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Tour Exclude Accommodation
  • Activity duration is 8 days8d8d
  • English

Included English Tour Guide and Lunch,private vehicle service,Ticket fees,Train ticket,Air ticket,Exclude Hotel Accommodation
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00 am
Price details
AU$7,470.75 x 1 AdultAU$7,470.75
Total
Price is AU$7,470.75
Until Tue, 7 May
Tour include Accommodation
  • Activity duration is 8 days8d8d
  • English

Included English Tour Guide and Lunch,private vehicle service,Ticket fees,Train ticket,Air ticket,7 night Hotel Accommodation
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00 am
Price details
AU$8,896.71 x 1 AdultAU$8,896.71
Total
Price is AU$8,896.71
Until Tue, 7 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Flaming Mountains (Huoyan Shan)/Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta)
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Jiayuguan Fortress/Great Wall at Jiayuguan Pass
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Mingsha Shan - Echoing-Sand Mountain/Ride Camels
  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate English Speaking Tour Guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Ancient City of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto)/Tianshan Tianchi Lake
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Yadan National Geological Park/ Yumen Pass/Great Wall of Han Dynasty
  • What's includedWhat's includedAir Ticket from Xi'an to Zhangye(Economy Class)
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup and drop-off.
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum
  • What's includedWhat's includedOptional Accommodation 7 nights (only if related tour option is chosen)
  • What's includedWhat's includedTransport by private vehicle.
  • What's includedWhat's includedBullet train tickets from Liuyuan to Turpan(Second-class seats)
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Mogao Caves/Grape Valley/Karez System
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntry/Admission - Dafo Temple of Zhangye/Zhangye Danxia Geopark
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDinner

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking.
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult.
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
  • A current valid passport is required on the day of travel.
  • Hotel accommodation standard: 2 people per room, Standard Room (2 single beds or 1 queen bed）.
  • Triple room for 3 people (3 single beds).
  • Please advise the type of room required when you booking.
  • You will need to pay an extra fee if you generate an extra number of rooms.
  • The best visiting time is from April to October.
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Xi'an-Zhangye
  • 2 stops
  • Meals: lunch
  • Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express Zhangye，a 4-star hotel
The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
Meet your private guide at your hotel and set out for the drive to the Terracotta Warriors Museum. Descend into 3 excavated pits to see the massive earthenware army buried with Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the late third century BCE. Marvel at the collection of thousands of sculpted warriors, chariots, and horses, which is regarded as one of the Eighth Wonders of the World. After your morning tour, your guide will take you to a nice local restaurant where you can enjoy some well-known local food, such as Biang Biang noodles and Rou Jia Mo.it is a characteristic of Xi'an cuisine, with over hundred years of history.
Zhangye
  • 3h
After lunch, be driven to the airport for the morning flight to Zhangye. Upon your arrival, you’ll be met and transferred to your hotel in Zhangye.
Day 2: Zhangye-Jiayuguan
  • 3 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Jiu Gang Hotel,4-star hotel
Zhangye Danxia Geopark
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast, you will visit the 'Colour Palette Overturned by God’ — the Zhangye Danxia Geopark, which is home to the Rainbow Mountains. It is praised as God's palette with its interlaced lines, colourful tones and magnificent paintings.
Dafo Temple of Zhangye
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
After enjoy a local lunch and continue to visit the Dafo Temple of Zhangye, which is the biggest Nivana Buddha in Asia. Admire the largest reclining Buddha in China at the Giant Buddha Temple.
Jiayuguan
  • 3h
Then driven to the Jiayuguan, Upon your arrival, you’ll be met and transferred to your hotel in Jiayuguan.
Day 3: Jiayuguan-Dunhuang
  • 3 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: The Silk Road Dunhuang Hotel,a 5-star hotel
Jiayuguan Fortress
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Meet up your friendly private guide and driver at your hotel in the early morning, you will visit Jiayuguan Fortress. Standing among vast desert and surrounded by rolling mountains, Jiayuguan Fortress looks like a dignified general guarding the grand land. It was constructed with the most integrated defensive system: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat. Besides functioning as a frontier military fortress, it was also an important traffic hub along the Silk Road, the oldest worldwide trading route.
Great Wall at Jiayuguan Pass
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Then drive to the Great Wall at Jiayuguan Pass, is which the most western pass of the Ming Great Wall, is known as one of the Chinese traffic fortress, the three wonders of the Great Wall (East Shanhaiguan, Zhenbeitai, Jiayuguan).
Dunhuang Night Market
  • 1h
This is the biggest night market in the area. You will see a lot of local small commodities and it is a great place to experience the local food culture. After to your comfortable hotel.
Day 4: Dunhuang
  • 4 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: The Silk Road Dunhuang Hotel,a 5-star hotel
Yadan National Geological Park
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast, you will visit the the geological phenomena of Yadan Park have been created over time by erosion of the soft earth by rain and wind, leaving unusual rock formations.In the park, you can get a view of uniquely-shaped rocks like Mongolian tent, Stone Bird, Peacock and others. Make full use of your imagination, you may find some rocks with some miniatures similar to famed architectures, like the Potala Palace in Tibet, Heaven Temple in Beijing or something else.
Yumen Pass
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Then, you will visit the Yumen Pass and Great Wall of Han Dynasty, In history, the Han Dynasty built many walls to consolidate the safety of the frontier region as well as exploring ways to do business with western region. During the Han dynasty, this was a pass-through which the Silk Road passed and was the one road connecting Central Asia and China.You will feel the history of the Yumen Pass as a trading post.
Mingsha Shan - Echoing-Sand Mountain
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
After Lunch, be driven to the Mingsha Shan - Echoing-Sand Mountain. Ride on the backs of camels and climb to get to the top of the dune. Along the way, there are splendid sights: golden sand, the rolling desert, a tranquil lake and the beautiful sunset.
Crescent Moon Pool
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Also, you’ll never miss out on the Crescent Moon Pool, Just like its name indicates, the Crescent Pool is in a natural shape of half-moon.According to historical record, the lake has been in existence for hundreds of years without ever being buried by the sand. Your wonderful tour will ends here, your tour guide and driver will take you back to your hotel in Dunhuang.
Day 5: Dunhuang-Turpan
  • 2 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Mercure Hotel Turpan,a 4-star hotel
Mogao Caves
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Meet your guide and driver in your hotel lobby and transfer you to Visitors' Centre of Mogao Grottoes, an UNESCO listed World Heritage Site, start your exciting sightseeing tour from to Mogao Caves and Digital Film Centre, Located in the Gobi desert, the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas feature beautiful wall fresco paintings and more than 3,000 sculptures dating from the forth to the fourteenth century.Then, a professional cave guide will lead you to explore about 7 to 9 caves closely.
Turpan
  • 3h
After lunch, you will to Liuyuan train station take the bullet train to Turpan. Then you will be drop-off at Turpan hotel.
Day 6: Turpan
  • 4 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Mercure Hotel Turpan,a 4-star hotel
Flaming Mountains (Huoyan Shan)
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast , your first stop of Turpan day tour is to Flaming Mountain is now a famous tourist attraction, with its harsh yet unique natural conditions. Afterwards, go to see the Astana Tombs, which is the site where the ancient people of the Gaochang city are buried. It is famous for its terracotta figurines and tomb paintings.
Grape Valley
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
After lunch, you’ll head to visit the Grape Valley, on the west of Flaming Mountains, east of Turpan is the Grape Valley, a green area of 988 acres covered with layer upon layer of grapes.Turpan is famous for its grapes so visit a local vineyard and relax as you sit under the grapevines.
Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta)
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Later, go to visit Emin Minaret (Su Gong Ta),The Emin Minaret is particularly beautiful in the morning, with the shadow of the minaret falling across the mosque. Go into the mosque and try to tell the time by checking the position of the sunlight on the wall.
Karez System
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Thne,visit the Karez Wells. This irrigation system of wells connected by underground channels is considered to be one of the three great ancient projects in China. Finally, visit the Turpan Night Market，the end return to the hotel.
Day 7: Turpan-Urumqi
  • 2 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Grand Mercure Hotel Hualing ,a 5-star hotel
Ancient City of Jiaohe (Yarkhoto)
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
After breakfast , your will visit Jiaohe Ancient City, the site of an ancient oasis city built on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang. Instead of building from the ground up, the ancient city of Jiaohe was constructed by digging down into the ground. Explore the ruins of this unique ancient city and learn about the different government structures and residential areas.
Erdaoqiao Market
  • 1h
After having a Uygur style lunch, you’ll head to the Erdaoqiao Market, the largest in Urumqi, where you’ll find a bustling market filled with fruit, clothing, crafts, knives, carpets and almost anything that you can imagine. After you will be drop-off at your Dunhuang hotel.
Day 8: Urumqi Departure
  • 1 stop
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Not included
Tianshan Tianchi Lake
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
Today after breakfast, you’ll drive to Urumqi and go to have a boat cruise on the Tianshan Tianchi Lake, a beautiful blue mountain lake. The blue lake water is finely contrasted with steep forest hills, high meadows and snowy Heavenly Mountain peaks behind. There you can also walk. After lunch, your guide and driver will take you to Urumqi Airport and wave goodbye to you. You can connect to the main cities in China from this airport.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESThe Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
    • Qinling North Road, Lintong District,
    • 710600, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEThe Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
    • Qinling North Road, Lintong District,
    • 710600, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

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