{"id":620,"date":"2026-05-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiancitytravel.com\/article\/travel-diaries\/xian-5-day-backpacker-route.html"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:39:41","slug":"xian-5-day-backpacker-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiancitytravel.com\/article\/travel-diaries\/xian-5-day-backpacker-route.html","title":{"rendered":"5-Day Backpacker Route: The Budget Deep Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the fourth day of my first backpacking trip through China, I had stopped counting the price of anything and started counting the quality of everything. Xi’an was the loop’s centerpiece, and I’d saved it for last \u2014 five days, one hostel bed, and a plan that bent the usual rules: I slept in the city for four nights and on a mountain for one. Total spend, including Mount Huashan and Famen Temple, came in under \u00a51,600.<\/p>\n

This is the extended edition of the three-day backpacker route<\/a>: the same budget discipline, two extra days, and a night climb up Huashan that you should not skip if your knees have anything left in them. It’s called a loop because it works best as one \u2014 out to the mountain in the middle, back to the same hostel bed, then out again on the far side.<\/p>\n

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