One day Qutan Temple and Hongshuiquan Mosque Tour

This one-day tour is perfect for those looking for a flexible tour out of Xining. Not only visit the "Mini Forbidden City" at Qutan Temple, but you'll also learn about Chinese and Tibetan history and culture. After touring the Ming Dynasty Buddhist temple, we would drive you to the Ledu Town to have typical Qinghai cuisine – including the Hand-Pulled Noodle with Soup & Pork Chop stew in soy sauce. After lunch, you will visit Hongshuiquan Mosque. And the decoration of this mosque is quite rare as it combines with the Tibetan Buddhism Culture and also the Taoist factor, not only Islamic cultural factors. It’s the refection of the national amalgamation in hundreds of years in this district.

Meet at your hotel or Xining Airport or the hotel in Xining (if depart from hotel, we would depart at 08:30am), drive 50 mins (from airport) or 1.5 hours (from Xining hotel) to Ledu County and visit Qutan Temple (1.5 hours sightseeing duration) and then drive 1.5 hours to have lunch at Ledu County. Spend around 45 mins for having lunch, then we drive you 1 hour to visit Hongshuiquan Mosque (1.5 hours sightseeing duration). Back to Xining city at around 6:00pm.

Note: If you’d like to choose this tour based on landing Xining in the morning and depart by the latest train to Lhasa at 09:30pm, you need to choose the flight to land in Xining Airport before / at 11am and there is no time for lunch, we only can offer you simple lunch box which prepared by your guide from Xining. Then drive back to Xining before 5pm, as we need to keep you some time no matter for a good dinner before boarding on the train (the train duration is 21 hours), but also go to the supermarket to buy some food before boarding on the train, as there is no good option for the food selling on the train.