Full-Day Private Guided Tour to Shangai Highlights
This tour provides a great opportunity to explore must-see attractions of Shanghai. With a private guide, you will learn about profound history and culture of Shanghai, admire the city’s skyscrapers and experience the original Shanghai atmosphere. The itinerary includes People’s Square, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Old Street, Yu Garden, Pudong New Area, Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai City History Development Museum and Former French Concession area. According to your preference, your guide will recommend some delicious local foods to eat.
- Walk around People's Square and admire a variety of significant edifices
- Enjoy panoramic views of Shanghai on the glass-bottomed sightseeing floor of Oriental Pearl Tower
- Get in touch with the everyday people and experience local lifestyle at Shanghai Old City
- Admire the western-style architectures around Former French Concession area
- Make the most of limited time with convenient hotel pickup and drop-off
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Full-Day Private Guided Tour to Shangai Highlights
Pickup included
What's included in Full-Day Private Guided Tour to Shangai Highlights
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
People’s Square
Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel at 09:00 a.m.. Then, we will transfer to People’s Square and start the highlight tour. Shanghai People's Square is located at the very center of Shanghai and is the demarcation point of East Nanjing Road and West Nanjing Road. It is a flourishing place for people to look around. Before 1949, the area of Shanghai People’s Square and the People’s Park was used as a famous horse racetrack which was built in 1861, honored as the ‘No.1 Racetrack in Far East’. Visitors still can find the ruins for the former main building standing at the northeast part of the People’s Square. We will see many scenic spots around people's square, such as the new Municipal Government Mansion, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai History Museum the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. Later, we will visit Shanghai Museum.
Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Bowuguan)
Located in the center of Shanghai in People's Square, Shanghai Museum is a large museum of ancient Chinese art. Its style and presentation surround visitors with artifacts demonstrating ancient wisdom and philosophy. The exterior design of the round dome and the square base symbolizes the ancient idea of a round heaven and a square land. The museum is divided into eleven galleries and three exhibition halls. The eleven galleries cover most of the major categories of Chinese art: Ancient Bronze, Ancient Ceramics, Paintings, Calligraphy, Ancient Sculpture, Ancient Jade, Coins, Ming and Qing Furniture, Seals, and Minority Nationalities Then, we will walk around Yuayuan Old Street, experiencing the original Shanghai lifestyle and visiting a classical garden and Chinese pharmacy.
Yuyuan Old Street
Shanghai Old Street, historically called Miaoqian Dajie, is an old business street that has a combination of tourist attractions, shops, entertainment and cultural exhibits. It owes its special social attractions and rich commercial background to the fact that the earliest bank, gold shop, jeweler's store, wine shop and tea house of the city were all to be found here. Visiting the old alleys of Shanghai is a great way to discover the traditional culture of this city and experience the real life of the Shanghainese. We will walk along Yuyuan Old Street and enjoy tea ceremony in an old teahouse. Then, we visit a classical garden.
Inclusions
- Knowledgeable tour guide
- Private transportation
- Bottled water
- Entrance fee of the indicated attractions
- Lunch
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We pick up from hotels centrally located in Shanghai.
