Fully Guided Shanghai Day Trip From Suzhou By Bullet Train
- 10 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Take a private day trip from Suzhou to Shanghai by bullet train, and explore the city with your experienced guide! This Skip-The-Line trip packs all of Shanghai main attractions into a single, unforgettable day and help you leave the long queues behind! Accompanied by your expert guide and experienced driver, visit from the Yu Garden, to Jade Buddha Temple, the Old French Concession, Shanghai Bund, Tianzifang and more; you'll cram more postcard worthy attractions into one day that you would see in a week of normal sightseeing. You have the option to take 2nd class train or an upgrade option 1st class train is available between Shanghai and Suzhou. Note: This guided tour lets you jump the queues and head straight into each scenic spot, which make your trip hassel-free and enjoyable. This is 100% customizable that can be catered to your needs.
Inclusions
What's included
- Bottled water
- Entrance Fee if you book the private tour options
- Professional English speaking tour guide
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Lunch if you book the all inclusive tour option
- Round trip Suzhou Shanghai train tickets if you book option that including them
- Skillful driver over 15+ years driving experience
What's not
- Gratuities
- Personal expenses
Itinerary
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
After your Shanghai tour is finished, your personal guide will accompany on the train ride back to your lovely Suzhou hotel.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- China Private Tours
- 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
How it compares in Suzhou
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 21 city tours we list in Suzhou.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Suzhou
Suzhou, an old canal city west of Shanghai, is known for its classical gardens, whitewashed houses and stone bridges over narrow canals.
Suzhou has been a centre of wealth and culture for more than two thousand years, and its scholars and wealthy families built gardens as private retreats. Nine of them are inscribed by UNESCO, among them the Humble Administrator's Garden, the Lingering Garden and the Master of the Nets Garden, with rockeries, ponds, pavilions and zigzag corridors arranged to make small spaces seem large.
Top-ranked sights in Suzhou: Pingjiang Road (Pingjiang Lu), Zhouzhuang Water Town, Humble Administrator's Garden (Zhuo Zheng Yuan).
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