Xi’an to Yuanjiacun Village Day Tour: Shaanxi Food & Folk Culture Experience
Tour Overview
Leave Xi’an behind for a slower-paced day centered on Shaanxi food, traditional crafts, and Guanzhong folk culture in Yuanjiacun Village.
Once there, wander through the busy food streets and sample Shaanxi snacks as you go. The village brings together traditional food workshops, folk activities, and Guanzhong-style streets in one walkable area.
Depending on availability, you can also try hands-on activities such as paper-cutting or shadow puppetry rather than simply watching from the sidelines.
Travel Destination: Yuanjiacun Village
Suitable for: Food Lovers, Culture Enthusiasts, Families
Tour type: Private
Highlights of this tour
Eat your way through Yuanjiacun’s food streets, sampling traditional Shaanxi snacks and watching ingredients such as vinegar, tofu, noodles, and chili products being made in local workshops.
Step into traditional workshops and watch local craftspeople at work, then try optional hands-on activities such as paper-cutting, weaving, or shadow puppetry, depending on availability.
Day-by-day Itinerary
- Day 1: Xi’an to Yuanjiacun Village by Private VehicleLocal Snacks and Hands-On Experiences
Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in downtown Xi’an and start your one-day side trip to Yuanjiacun Village in Liquan County, Xianyang, about 1.5 hours.
This traditional village is themed on folk culture experience of central Shaanxi Province. It consists of a snack street, a Muslim street, a cultural street, a workshop street, and more.
Follow your guide to explore the food streets, where you'll find hundreds of local specialties and snacks, such as biangbiang noodles, traditional shredded pancake noodles and fried dough twist. Compared to other scenic areas, the food here is reasonably priced. Just try whatever catches your eye. In some stores, you can also spot the chefs cooking on site.
A food stall selling fried dough twist in Yuanjiacun Village Additionally, you can learn about the village’s history at the museum, step into workshops to watch craftsmen practice intangible cultural heritage crafts, and take photos at the Tang-style Yanxia Alley. At the ancient theater stage, you might catch a free Qinqiang Opera performance.
Yanxia Alley at Yuanjiacun at night Optional Activity: In some workshops, some hands-on activities (at an additional cost) are available, such as grinding flour, weaving a small coaster from a homespun cloth on an old-fashioned loom, operating shadow puppets, and paper-cutting. Feel free to join any that interest you.
Finally, you will be escorted back to your hotel.
Tour Price ($=USD)
From $95 P.P, which is based on a private tour for 2 people. The price varies depending on the activity, number of people, travel date, hotel class, and fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
* For the final price, please refer to the service voucher sent to you by your travel consultant.
