1-Day Xi'an Extension Tour

- Side Trip to Famen Temple & Qian Tomb

Trip Highlights - Attractions Involved: Famen Temple and Qianling Tomb. A tour to Famen Temple and Qianling Tomb will lead you explore more about Xian's past glory. As an ancient capital for seven dynasties, Xian boasts a great many historic relics. Besides the hot spots, this city can also provide other fantastic places worthy your visiting. Famen Temple is a mystery itself constructed during the Han Dynasty. The Qianling Tomb and is about an hour's drive from Xian which shows the burial pattern in Tang Dynasty. The tour of these two places will enrich your impression on this ancient city.
Tour Departure: Daily.     Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:00am.     Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.     Duration: 9 hours.

Tour Itinerary: (Lunch)
In the morning, you will be picked up from your hotel and driven to Famen Temple which figured prominently in Tang times. At that time, the legendary relic of the Buddha, specifically, "the finger-bone of the Buddha," are enshrined. This temple hosts this precious item in the pagoda attracting visitors from home and abroad. Lunch will be arranged in the local family restaurant. Then you will be taken to Qianling Tomb. It is a joint tomb of Gaozong, the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty and his Empress Consort, Wu Zetian who was the only female monarch in the Chinese history. Afterwards you will be sent back to your hotel.
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Attraction Description
Famen Temple is situated at Famen Town, ten kilometers north of Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, China. It is a famous Buddhist temple with a long history, and became a Holy Land of Buddhism because the finger bone relic of Sakyamuni was placed in it. All places receiving such relics must build pagodas to enshrine them; therefore, 84,000 pagodas were built all over the world...
Qianling Tomb occupies a prominent site on the summit of Liangshan Hill some 80 kilometers northwest of the Tang capital, Xi'an. The design of the tomb site replicates the city of Chang'an and in accordance with tradition is on a north-south axis. The southern approach is set between two smaller hills and the way to the Emperor's tomb is lined with stone animals as well as human figures...