Fully Guided Shanghai Day Trip From Suzhou By Bullet Train

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Meet your experienced guide at your Suzhou downtown hotel and transfer you to the train station to board the quick 30-minute train to Shanghai. On the way, feel free to talk with your guide about any particular interest you have, so the commentary and itinerary can be customized.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Yu Garden (Yuyuan)

  Your tour begins with Yu Garden, which is considered as the paragon of the south Chinese landscaping style of the Ming & Qing dynasties, it's a MUST for visitors to Shanghai. Yu Garden demonstrates perfectly the sophisticated art of combining several different elements to create a world in miniature - ingeniously mingling pavilions and corridors, small hills and carefully selected and well-placed rocks, lotus ponds, ancient bridges, winding paths and trees. Near Yu Garden, there is a Shanghai Bazaar, which is a local market, is a rising tourist and shopping center. It's seemed with a great number of ancient streets and lanes where vendors sell their products and food stuffs to both tourists and local people.

  1 hour 40 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  Jade Buddha Temple

  Later, go for Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple. Jade Buddha Temple is worth visiting for spiritual experience. It's a Song-dynasty-style architecture with precise complex and harmonius structure. You'll see the Hall of Heavenly Kings, Daxiong Grand Hall and Jade Buddha Chamber in this temple, it's still a working monastery, replete with monks who reside, pry, study and conduct religious ceremonies on holy occasions. If you want to seek meditation, spiritualism, quietness and peace, you can find all togerther in Jade Buddha Temple. The ambient is fabulous!

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 4
  Former French Concession

  Continue your tour to Old French Concession. If you want to see the city's best profile, the Old Frech Concesson is the best. It was progressively expanded between late 19th and early 20th centuries, Interesting architecture built with French and Belgian venture investments and showing mixed Chinese-European styles, the streets lined with trees is a bustling area, combined with a growing number of trendy boutiques and restaurants.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 5

  In the afternoon, you will visit The Bund in Shanghai. The Bund is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area is in the eastern part of Huangpu District centers on a section of Zhongshan Road ,which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing the high, modern skyscrapers of Pudong.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 6

  The last stop for the tour is Tian Zi Fang. It has become an amazing cluster of the trendy and cultural spots. It is an arts and crafts enclave that has developed from a renovated residential area in the French Concession area of Shanghai, China. It comprises a neighborhood of labyrinthine alleyways off Taikang Road, and also referred to as Taikang Road or Taikang Lu. Tianzifang is known for small craft stores, coffee shops, trendy art studios and narrow alleys.

  50 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7

  After your Shanghai tour is finished, your personal guide will accompany on the train ride back to your lovely Suzhou hotel.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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