One-Day Discount Xian Tour

Day1 Xian
Your guide will meet you at 8:30 in your hotel and take you to Small Wild Goose Pagoda, a famous temple in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty and was the place where the great translator Monk Yijing of the Tang Dynasty translated Buddhist scriptures. He went to India for the search of Buddhist in 671.now it become a very nice and peaceful place with many local art gallery then go to visit the Forest of Stone Steles Museum, the treasure house with richest collection of steles in China With a history of almost 900 years. The numerous standing steles resemble a forest, hence the name " Forest of Steles" After lunch go to visit Daxingshan Temple one of the oldest Buddhist temples in china built in the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) Many Indian monks stayed there to translate the sutras and spread the Buddhist doctrines. Over time, the Daxingshan Temple became one of three temples especially used for translating sutras. Today it houses the Xian Buddhist then visiting Green Dragon Temple built in 582 and famous in Tang Dynasty, during the Tang Dynasty some Japanese monks were sent to China to study Buddhism and six of them studied in this temple .that brought a flourishing period of the temple in the ninth century.

The present temple was reconstructed in 1963. Memorial halls for the earlier monks and exhibition halls with some excavations displayed are all built in the Tang architectural style. Green Dragon Temple is a place where the cherry blossoms can be enjoyed. Every year during May and June, an endless stream, of tourists comes to appreciate its beauty.