Highlights

This 2 days tour will take you to explore the classic and modern Shanghai – a huge international metropolis with a long history. During this tour, you will experience both Shanghai’s “classic and modern” qualities. Yu Garden is one of Shanghai’s best-preserved ancient Chinese private gardens. The Bund boasts spectacular views and has more than 50 individual architectural styles and is reminiscent of the time Shanghai was at the center of the Chinese economy and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Moreover, the Old French Concession offers a chance to take a trip back in time to view what the old colonial French quarter was like.

Zhujiajiao Water Town is a typical ancient water town with 1,700 years history,also so called “The Venice of Shanghai", it features lovely waterways, curved rock bridges, old streets cemented with stone, and over 10,000 buildings dating back to the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties (1644-1911).Zhujiajiao is the best-preserved ancient water town among the four ancient towns in Shanghai.

Day 1: A full day sightseeing of Shanghai City

Meet your guide and driver at your hotel in Shanghai in the morning around 8:30, then start to visit this most prosperous city of China,

First we will go to visit the Yu Garden which is a typical private garden in China with nearly 500 years history,located in Shanghai old town.

Then, continue sightseeinf of the Bund, it shows off Shanghai's outstanding foreign buildings, most of which were erected before 1937.it is the emblem of Shanghai, the area used to be British concession.

Enjoy lunch at the local restaurant.

In the afternoon, we will visit the Jade Buddha Temple where two rare jade statues of Sakyamuni Buddha are displayed, afterwards,drive to the Lujiazui financial area;

visit the Oriental Pearl Tv Towe, which is the third tallest Tv Tower in the world,get a bird view of the city and learn the history of Shanghai from Historical Development Museum at 0 meter of the TV tower.(If don't want to queue there in the long line,we can go to visit the 100th Floor of World financial center building without extra fee.); then Taking the cruise on the Huangpu River where the best view of the Bund and Lujiazui area are for your appreciation.

Drop-off service at your hotel and end today's trip.

Day 2: Shanghai-Zhujiajiao Water Town-Xintiandi

Meet your guide and driver at your hotel in the morning around 8:30, drive to Zhujiajiao water town.,Located in outskirts of Shanghai, Zhujiajiao (Zhu Family Settlement) is an ancient water town well-known throughout the country, with a history of more than 1700 years. Covering an area of 47 square kilometers, the little fan-shaped town glimmers like a bright pearl in the landscape of lakes and mountains. The village prospered through clothing and rice businesses. Till today, old historical buildings such as rice shops, banks, spice stores and even a Qing dynasty post office can still be found.

In the afternoon, we will drive back to Shanghai and visit French Concession Xintiandi. Xintiandi has created a life style favored by most of visitors because it is a place where yesterday meets tomorrow and east meets west.local Shnaghainess like Xintiandi because it aroused a reminiscent mood by the gray-brick Shikumen facade and the stone gate which used to be the architectural symbol of Shanghai in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Afterwards, drop you off at your hotel and end the tour.

What is included

*Hotel pick-up service,

*English-speaking tour guide.

*Air-conditioned tour van or bus.

*Entrance tickets and cruise ticket as listed in the itinerary.

*Buffet dinner with soft drink on the cruise.

What is excluded

*Dinner.

*Hotel cost in Shanghai.

*Tips to the guide and driver.

Note

*Free Pick-up and drop-off services are offered for visitors staying in dowtown area of Shanghai city, so please SPECIFY the hotel name and address when you enroll this tour.

*The night before the tour departure about 8:30Pm, a guide will call you directly if you have left us a China mobile number, or he/she will call to the hotel room to inform the pick-up time next morning.

*A message will be left at the hotel front desk if you are not in the room when he/she calls.

*Please call this emergency number +86-18086842467 to confirm the pick-up time if you didn't receive any message from our guide the night before departure.