Private Cooking Class and Tour of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum

Sightseeing  :  China  :  Shaanxi  :  Xi'an  :  Private Sightseeing Tours

Join this 7-hour private tour with cooking class and a visit to Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. You will be accompanied by a private guide to learn the art of creating traditional Chinese cuisine of dumplings and noodles from a professional chef. After the lunch, walk through the museum and be amazed by over 8,000 life-sized burial sculptures of Qin Dynasty soldiers in battle formation.At 8 o'clock in the morning, your private tour guide and driver will pick you up from the lobby of your Xi'an hotel and drive to local morning wet market. There, you will shop and bargain for fresh ingredients to use in the upcoming cooking class with your guide. Once you have wrapped up there, head to the cooking classroom nearby where your instructor will teach you how to be an expert in fixing Chinese food. You will have the opportunity to prepare two dishes: Kongpao Chicken and Sweet and Sour Pork as well as optional main course of either noodles or dumplings. If you are a vegetarian, please inform your guide during shopping trip. You will enjoy your own work of art as lunch.

After lunch, your private guide and driver will bring you to the world famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum where you will see over 8,000 pieces of terracotta warriors and horses buried underground by the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, about 2,200 years ago. Following the museum trip is a brief stop at a Terracotta Warriors Pottery Factory where you will learn how those underground warriors and horses sculpture were created. Later, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Xi'an where this private day tour is concluded.