3 Days Shanghai Suzhou Xitang Water Town Tour

Highlights

　　The tour includes both Shanghai and Suzhou. In Shanghai, marvel at Western-style towers that once made Shanghai Paris of the East along "the Bund", enjoy the gorgeous panoramic view of the new Shanghai on top of Shanghai Tower, learn the history of Shanghai from Shanghai Museum and Confucian Temple. Enjoy beautiful Xitang Water Town and stay overnight. In Suzhou, you explore the biggest garden in Suzhou "Humble Administrator’s Garden", artist Suzhou Museum and historical Pingjiang Road.

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Bund

For a century, the Bund has been one of the most recognizable symbols and the pride of Shanghai. The architecture along the Bund is a living museum of the colonial history of the 1800s. You've never been to Shanghai if you haven’t seen the Bund.

Bund

Former French Concession

This neighborhood is a former concession of France located in Lukawei area and is very famous and sought after as the most popular residential address among expats due to its enchanting leafy neighborhood, gorgeous streets, quaint cafes, colorful walkways, concept clubs and breweries and stylish stores.

Former French Concession

Jade Buddha Temple

It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. The Jade Buddha Temple is a good place to go whether you are a Buddhist or not, the peaceful and transcendent atmosphere adds a kind of richness to our busy modern society.

Jade Buddha Temple

Shanghai Museum

The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square. It is considered one of China's first world-class modern museums. The museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, sculptures, minority art and foreign art.

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Confucian Temple

Here, it would enchant you by its solemnity and serenity, rendering an experience of a silent pause in this restless city. It was the most prestigious learning institution of the county when Shanghai, once a small fishing village, was elevated to the status of a county seat, as in ancient times a Confucian Temple was typically a combination of temple and school. Nowadays, this well-well-tended temple has become a modest and tranquil retreat for the visitor in both domestic and international level.

Shanghai Confucian Temple

Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower is also another tall building boasting of having one of the world’s highest observation deck and the world’s fastest elevators, which travel at a top speed of 74 km/hr (world's second fastest elevator) The express elevator ride to the observation deck located on the 119th floor takes less than a minute.

Shanghai Tower

Xitang Water Town

Xitang Water Town, lying in Jiashan County in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is a famous town with thousands of years of history. There are well-preserved groups of buildings of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) with relatively high artistic quality and research value. It is famous for its large number of covered corridors, lanes and bridges.

Xitang Water Town

Humble Administrator’s Garden

Built in 1509 during the Ming Dynasty, Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest and most renowned classical landscape garden in Suzhou. It is listed as a World Cultural Heritage site and has also been designated as one of the Cultural Relics of National Importance.

Humble Administrator’s Garden

Pingjiang Road

A BBC Travel article describes Pingjiang Road as less touristy than Shantang Street and states that it is "lined with houses that embody Suzhou’s style – graceful, simple and timeless. Pingjiang Road gives an insight into the leisurely existence of the city’s residents. (It is a) centre of Suzhou's artistic life, lined with bookshops and local opera theatres. There are also several teahouses, where people gather for performances of traditional storytelling and ballad singing".

Pingjiang Road

Suzhou Museum

The Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, ancient Chinese paintings, calligraphy, and handmade crafts, situated in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. Suzhou Museum obeys the theme of “Design for China”. It combines modern exhibition halls and classical gardens’ architecture together.

Suzhou Museum

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Tour Itinerary

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Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Day 1 Shanghai

Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai Museum, Former French Concession, Confucian Temple, Bund

Tour guide and driver pick you up from the hotel in the early morning. You will visit Jade Buddha Temple, enjoy spiritual land in Shanghai. Later, explore hidden history from a large number of ancient Chinese art at the Shanghai Museum. Walking on the exotic Former French Concession, you'll love this tranquil and beautiful street. Afterwards, go to Confucian Temple. An ancient temple dating back to Yuan dynasty, and travelers can learn historic Chinese culture and its continued relevance today. Walk through the architectural complex of the Bund covering the Bank of China tower, Peace Hotel, Customs House tower, and other famous buildings built by Western nations during the colonial era.

Scenic spots included in the itinerary

Bund

Former French Concession

Jade Buddha Temple

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Confucian Temple

Lunch

Day 2 Shanghai

Shanghai Tower, Xitang Water Town

Today you will visit the Shanghai Tower, the highest building in China and the second highest building in the world. From the top, you'll enjoy a bird's eye view of this vibrant city. Then go to Xitang Water Town. The quiet water, ancient bridges, and roving fishing boats form an amazing picture full of a sense of poetry which can only be seen in the south area. Enjoy the beautiful sunset and beautiful night view of the water town. Stay overnight in Xitang Water Town.

Note: There isn't 5-star hotel in Xitang Water Town. You'll stay in 4-star hotel if you choose 5-star hotel+ tour option. Thanks for understanding.

Scenic spots included in the itinerary

Shanghai Tower

Xitang Water Town

Lunch

Day 3 Shanghai-Suzhou-Shanghai by Private Vehicle

Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou Museum, Pingjiang Road

After breakfast, enjoy the sunrise at this beautiful water town. Later, you will be driven to Suzhou known as the garden city. Upon arrival, visit the Humble Administrator's Garden. About 60% of its area is covered with water and there is an extensive network of paths, bridges and streams, which forms a magnificent place for resting and quaint views. Later, move to Suzhou Museum, a great mix of ancient artifacts, modern art, contemporary art, history, and even architecture mixed in. Walk along Pingjiang Road and visit so many different types of shops from old crafts to modern fashion. At last, you'll be escorted back to Shanghai hotel.

Scenic spots included in the itinerary

Humble Administrator’s Garden

Pingjiang Road

Suzhou Museum

Lunch

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Shanghai

Howard Johnson Caida Plaza Shanghai Detail

Days Hotel (New International Exhibition Center) Detail

Huajing Grand Hotel Detail

Xitang Water Town

Chengshang Generations Hotel Detail

Houyuanli Hotel (Xitang KFC) Detail

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Hotel Description

Hotel Position : Plaza del Angel, 12, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Opened:2000

Number of rooms:108

Postcode:100007

Redecorated:2017

The Ping'anfu Hotel (Ping'anfu Binguan) is a luxury hotel located in the hustle and bustle of the city center. It is only 4 kilometers from the railway station and 28 kilometers from the airport. This hotel provide comfortable rooms, ranging from standard doubles to deluxe suites. Facilities in rooms include international direct dial telephones, satellite televisions, central air conditioning and mini bars. Room service is available on request. Guests of the hotel will also have the chance to relax in the sauna and massage center. The hotel has numerous restaurants, mostly serving Chinese cuisine.

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Hotel Policies

Check-in & Check-out

Check-in from 14:00

Check-out before 12:00

Hotel Notes

Smoking is now strictly prohibited within all public and enclosed spaces in Beijing. This hotel will NOT offer smoking rooms.

Hotel Description

Opened:2000

Number of rooms:108

Postcode:100007

Redecorated:2017

Price Includes

Entrance fees as described in the itinerary

Air-conditioned vehicle with a skillful driver

English speaking guide

Lunches

A bottle of water per day per person

Hotel pick-up and drop off service

Hotel for 3 nights (if selected)

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Tips to guide and driver

Airport transfer

Self-financed Projects

Transport

Shanghai Airport Pickup

$63(Passat:1-2people)

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Shanghai Airport Drop-off

$63(Passat:1-2people)

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Shanghai Acrobatic Show

$72 For 1people

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Shanghai Acrobatic Show

　　Chinese Acrobatics is one of the oldest performing arts. Its history can be traced back to Neolithic times. It is believed that acrobatics grew out of labor and self-defense skills, which people practiced and demonstrated during their leisure time. The early performance is "walking on three-meter-high stilts while juggling seven gaggers". Then it developed into an entire art formTogether with the developing economy, acrobatics is also evolving into a kind of performing art. It became well known worldwide while performances are presented along the Silk Road. In Europe and North America, Chinese acrobatic performances always attract large audiences.

　　Many acrobatic shows come from the art performance of living skills and labor skills. Acrobatic show has a history of over 2000 years in China. It is named as “Baixi” in Han dynasty, “sanle” in Sui and Tang Dynasty, named as Acrobatic after Tang and Song dynasty in order to differentiate from acts in other forms.

　　There are nine specialties in acrobatic.

　　Acrobatic pays lot of attentions on leg and waist training. Since ancient, Chinese acrobat focus on the position “top”. There are many “Stand on one’s head”, and “somersault” depicted in ancient fresco and earthenwares. For Chinese acrobatic, including actor of ancient show, he should has very deep Kung Fu foundation.

　　“Stable” out of “steep” while “move” is out of “stable” are both for showing a very quiet and accurate hard skill. Such as walking on the steel rod which require all actions for stable. The moving bench and ladder, one after another, but needs the man on the top find the stable from the move and it require a stable head, super skill, and hard training . It shows fully the super skill of our mankind conquering danger and difficulties.

　　“Unique” is out of the “usual”. From none to everything, it fully shows our mankind creating the world. Different from western magic, which focus on colorful stage property, Chinese magic only needs very simple property. From cuisine to fish and bird alive, a simple long sleeve gown can turn out everything. Or one somersault can turn into a firing bronze basin or another one for a fish bowl with water and fish.

　　Hard and soft Kung Fu combines. Kicking is mostly acted by women. The actor lies and kick thing including wine jar, colorful bowl, clock, tables, ladder, wooden pole, wooden plate, drum and bell, from weightless umbrella to heavy living persons. Things kicked is rotating quickly, jumping back and forth. From the smooth vase to heavy wooden desk, everything is kicked so quickly only for image, not for picture.

　　Super power and Nimble dexterous somersault combines. According to history record, the seat for human pyramid is quite amazing. Previously history record, 18 men seats on one man while 6 men seats on one man both appeared. Over a thousand jin including eight men seats on one man fully show the program well. The traditional “ Pulling the bow” and “playing with knife” are both heavy-loaded hard Kung Fu.

　　There are a great amount of living utensils and labor instruments used in the acrobatic show including bowl, plate, altar, handleless cup, rod, whip, fork, pole, ladder, desk, chair, umbrella and cap. Those normal things is changeable in the hands of acrobatic, fully exhibited a close tie between labor life with Chinese acrobatic show.

　　Simple arts and body arts combine. “playing fun with altar”, “rotating plate” combine both Porcelain painting with traditional Chinese acrobatic. In the kicking show, the colorful umbrella and colorful peddle the same offer feeling of ancient aesthetics.

　　Chinese acrobatic is quite accommodated in different style and various places. From market, theatre, lane, room with place of hundreds of people to only one, Chinese acrobatic is fit for any places with thousands years of history.

　　Chinese acrobatic has an intimate heritage tradition. One generation after another generation, regional, blood-related and sister arts, previous acrobats are always inherited and passed around.

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Shanghai Circus World

$76 For 1people

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Huangpu River Cruise

$72 For 1 people

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benniejay

2019-07-31

Yes everything was spectacular and fascinating very professional and prompt services. There were beautiful places to explore and to see in the 4 hours that we had. The comfort and beauty of the China was incredible, The history, culture and way of life of the local people we bumped into during the layover was beyond our expectations. Hiking on the Great wall after driving through a small remote countryside was very relaxing and rejuvenating. It was the best trip ever to experience on a few hours.

We had not previously used a travel agency for touring. The crew including the driver and tour guide were really funny, friendly and knowledgeable. Despite having limited time we still had free time allowing for shopping and grabbing a meal and drinks. Highly recommend this layover in Beijing.

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mirceao455

Bucharest, Romania

2019-06-28

Great, compact, amazing tour. Our guide Jenny did the best to show us the most important attractions in Beijing in just a 2 day tour. I recommand her tours, she is great with groups, friendly and well prepared.

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2funworldtravers

2019-05-25

Mike and Karen, Tucson, Arizona

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pedro148595

2019-05-22

Highly recommend for everyone coming to Beijing

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Mdezarraga2

2019-05-22

We had an amazing trip with Jenny! She is very knowledgeable and answered all of our questions in fantastic English. She also is very organized so we were on time to each stop of our tour!

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stevensE4605SC

Durban, South Africa

2019-05-09

Booking from South Africa on ChinaTour.net was so quick and easy, however I had to mail customer service as I had not received my confirmation within the 48 hours that the original mail had stated. Once done I received confirmation for all my train and internal flights within 20 minutes of sending the mail. I would highly recommend this website for booking trips through China and i will use it again in future.

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NYCfoodiegirl

New York, NY

2019-04-29

Well worth it! Jenny was really nice and incredibly helpful with the immigration process after airport personnel originally escorted to the wrong area and didn’t want to allow leaving the airport. She takes great photos! Beautiful views and fun to take the toboggan down. Wasn’t too crowded on this day - and definitely worth doing with a 7 hour layover. Nice car and driver too.

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NancyVaB

2019-04-13

Great app to buy train tickets. If you don't know the language you just show the e-ticket that the app gave you and the seller will give the tickets to you without the need to talk.

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aklein729

2019-02-20

Had a great layover tour! 100% worth it. Was easily picked up and transported to the Great Wall and back to the airport. Jenny’s English is perfect so communication flowed nicely. She even helped me take photos on the Great Wall!

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Sreesagubadi

valsayn, Trinidad and Tobago

2019-02-08

I used China tour company to visit Hangzhou on on feb 7th. It’s a private tour. The experience is very pleasant and enjoyable. Tour guide Mr. Mark Zhou was very good. He speaks good English and very patient. He knows his stuff. I visited West Lake , Buddhist temple and the Pagoda. The tour was very enjoying and place (Hangzhou) is a must to see if you wish to enjoy the nature and Chinese culture and tradition. I recommend it to every one visiting China.

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Booking Note

How to Choose Tour Type?

Affordable Group Tour:

Our small group tour is around of 15 peoples picked up from different hotels. Suitable for tourists with limited budget and who would like to travel with others from different countries.

Best Value Private Tour:

More flexible and time saving.No need to wait for other tourists.Flexible schedule . Possible to be customized for your own itinerary. A privet tour guide and air-conditioned vehicle will be at your service.

How to Book?

1. You can book online, choose to pay the deposit or full payment. We accept payment by PayPal, Credit Card, Wechat and Bank Transfer. After booking, we will send you a booking confirmation email.

2. When you arrive at the departure city, the exactly pick up time will inform by your tour guide though your hotel one night before your tour date.

3.Pick-up Service: To ensure the morning pick-up going smoothly as scheduled, we suggest you choose downtown hotels within the fourth ring road of the city. An additional transfer fee will be incurred if your hotel is outside the above mentioned area. If your hotel is located in a narrow lane or an apartment block, we suggest you find the nearest hotel on the main street as your pick-up point.

Cancellation Policy:

If you cancel at least 7 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.

If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.

If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.

Hotel, flight and train ticket fees are not refundable.

Questions & Answers

Tour Code: A0333

Duration: 3days

Departure date: Everyday

Tour type: Private

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