Description
What You will Do
scheduling：
From 9:00 to 9:30, take a taxi to Shanghai Yuyuan Tourism Area (1.5 hours of tour) to experience the different Chinese culture, which makes foreign friends linger and forget to leave. They can experience intangible cultural heritage traditions such as shadow play, tie-dye or paper-cutting.Shanghai Day Trips began.
Around 12:00, free lunch tasting. All kinds of snacks and delicious food around Yuyuan.
Around 12:30,Shanghai Private Sightseeing Tours,visit the [Lujiazui] Tourism Area (2-hour tour). As the core functional zone of Shanghai’s International Financial Center, Lujiazui hosts the China headquarters (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) and East Asia headquarters of multiple multinational banks. The area features modern architectural landmarks such as the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Shanghai Jin Mao Tower.
Destination Highlight
Yuyuan Garden: As the most intact Jiangnan-style garden in Shanghai, Yuyuan Garden epitomizes the “serene elegance and exquisite delicacy” characteristic of southern Chinese gardens from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Established during the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, this 460-year-old masterpiece is celebrated as the “Crown of Southeastern Gardens”. It showcases architectural excellence from the Ming era, featuring over 30 unique pavilions and towers. The garden preserves numerous ancient trees, Ming-Qing dynasty furniture, calligraphy works by renowned artists, clay sculptures, brick carvings, plaques, and couplets. It was a gathering place for Shanghai School painters. Its Jade Linglong stone, one of Jiangnan’s three legendary stones, features distinctive pleats, perforations, transparency, and slender contours. When sunlight illuminates its porous surface, it glitters translucently; wind rustles its texture, while rainwater makes it “weep”. The ancient theater, hailed as the “Southeast’s Premier Stage”, boasts intricate dome ceilings and ornate caisson wells that utilize acoustic principles for natural sound amplification.
scheduling：
Around 15:00, go to [Qipu Road], a famous garment wholesale market in Shanghai.
17:00 Suzhou River Cruise: As Shanghai’s mother river, the Suzhou River cruise route connects numerous historically and culturally significant landmarks including the Bund Source International Architecture Complex, Waibaidu Bridge, Shanghai Postal Museum, and Sihang Warehouse. Visitors can immerse themselves in a century-long architectural corridor aboard the cruise ship, experiencing the harmonious blend of modern art and historical heritage. This unique riverside journey to appreciate cultural landscapes is irreplicable by other attractions
18:00, the guide will lead a tour of the Bund. The International Architecture Exhibition Complex at the Bund features 52 classical revival-style buildings showcasing diverse architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, and Sino-Western fusion. Known as the “International Architecture Exhibition Complex”, these structures stand as significant historical landmarks and representative architecture in modern China. Formerly serving as colonial-era consulates and financial headquarters, they have witnessed the historical evolution of Shanghai and even China. Their architectural artistry and historical value are exceptionally rare both domestically and internationally. (Activity duration: approximately 60 minutes)
19:00 The guide recommends the food around the Bund. The trip is over and the guide finishes his work.
Destination Highlight
Qipu Road
Cost-effective clothing: Qipu Road is the largest garment wholesale market in Shanghai, which mainly deals with low-and medium-priced clothing. For example, a T-shirt that may cost 50 euros abroad can be bought for 100 yuan on Qipu Road.
Rapid fashion updates: Qipu Road has long been a bellwether for fashion, where Chinese clothing is sold around the world.
Big room for bargaining: Most shops on Qipu Road support bargaining, which is a major feature that distinguishes them from many shopping malls and brand stores.
The Suzhou River Cruise
To the east of the Bund Source Pier lies the former site of a rowing club. Behind it stands a two-story British-style mansion that once served as the British Consulate General in Shanghai, originally constructed in 1849 and standing as the oldest building in the Bund architectural complex. The pointed-roof church structure to the left front of the pier was formerly known as Xintian’an Church (also called United Church), featuring a prominent 33-meter clock tower at its center.
