Xi'an — Sights
An ancient capital in its walls, wrapped in lamb smoke.
- Terracotta Army — A hangar-sized pit of clay soldiers standing in ranks
- Huaqing Palace & The Everlasting Regret show — Tang emperor's hot-spring palace; at night the mountain is the stage
- City Wall by bike — A 13.7 km loop on top of a 600-year-old wall, by bike
- Bell Tower & Drum Tower — The city's centrepoint, lit gold every night
- Muslim Quarter — Lanes thick with skewer smoke and baking bread
- Big Wild Goose Pagoda & fountain show — Fountains dance in front of a 1,300-year-old brick pagoda
- Great Tang All Day Mall (Datang Everbright City) — Two kilometres of Tang-style lights and free street shows
- Shaanxi History Museum — A thousand years of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang under one roof
- Small Wild Goose Pagoda & Xi'an Museum — A pagoda from 707 that lost its top to an earthquake, and a quiet garden
- Forest of Stone Steles (Beilin Museum) — A stone library where thousands of steles stand like trees
- Mount Hua (Huashan) — Five sheer granite peaks straight out of a martial-arts novel
- Datang Furong Garden (Tang Paradise) — Tang palaces around a lake that only come alive when lit
- Yongxingfang — A Shaanxi snack lane where you drink and smash the bowl
- Tang Paradise night shows — A Tang-era spectacle on a water screen, watched from a boat
- Hanyangling (Han Yangling Mausoleum) — A buried army of 60 cm figures under a glass floor
- Great Mosque of Xi'an — Chinese roofs, Arabic plaques, and a quiet courtyard
- Daming Palace National Heritage Park — Tang emperors' palace grounds, a vast open site
- Xingqing Palace Park — A Tang imperial garden lake, free to stroll
- Guangren Temple (Tibetan Lamasery) — Xi'an's only Tibetan Buddhist temple
- Shuyuanmen Cultural Street — A stone lane lined with brush, ink and calligraphy shops
- Datang West Market Museum — Tang market lanes under a glass floor
- Qujiang Pool Ruins Park — Tang-style bridges and lakes for evening walks
- South Gate (Yongning Gate) Night Light Show — Tang welcome ceremony and lanterns at dusk
- Famen Temple — Buddha finger relic and a Tang underground vault