Shanghai Suzhou Zhouzhuang Bus day Tour
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Tour Description
Picked up from your midtown hotel in Shanghai. Drive about one hour and get to Suzhou - the famous World Culture Heritage crowned gardent city. The city is often referred to as "The Venice of the Earth." Its famous private gardens are listed as World Culture Heritage.
First visit Suzhou Lingering Garden. Lingering Garden has a history of over 400 years, the best preserved among all the Suzhou gardens. The garden was originally built in 1583 of by Xu Taishi, an official of the Ming court, as his private living place. After expanded and renovated for several times, it has the new face what it looks today.
After lunch, continue to drive about 2 hours and reach the charming Zhouzhuang Watertown. Located at the middle situation between Shanghai and Suzhou, Zhouzhuang is surrounded with rivers, lakes and numerous exquisite hump bridges. Zhouzhuang also boasts many cultural and historical relics, including the houses of Shen and Zhang, the Milou Tower, Ye Chucang's Former Residence etc. This town has the best water town preserved in China with over 900 years and most of houses in the town were constructed in Ming (1368-1644) or Qing Dynasties (1644-1911). The rivers and streams in Zhouzhuang passes the town and are connected by 14 stone-arch bridges. After the tour in Suzhou and Zhouzhuang, transferred back to your midtown hotel in Shanghai.
First visit Suzhou Lingering Garden. Lingering Garden has a history of over 400 years, the best preserved among all the Suzhou gardens. The garden was originally built in 1583 of by Xu Taishi, an official of the Ming court, as his private living place. After expanded and renovated for several times, it has the new face what it looks today.
After lunch, continue to drive about 2 hours and reach the charming Zhouzhuang Watertown. Located at the middle situation between Shanghai and Suzhou, Zhouzhuang is surrounded with rivers, lakes and numerous exquisite hump bridges. Zhouzhuang also boasts many cultural and historical relics, including the houses of Shen and Zhang, the Milou Tower, Ye Chucang's Former Residence etc. This town has the best water town preserved in China with over 900 years and most of houses in the town were constructed in Ming (1368-1644) or Qing Dynasties (1644-1911). The rivers and streams in Zhouzhuang passes the town and are connected by 14 stone-arch bridges. After the tour in Suzhou and Zhouzhuang, transferred back to your midtown hotel in Shanghai.
Booking Note
1. It's a busy day with much walking. So be sure to wear comfortable shoes and have a good sleep the day before.
2. Normally free hotel Pickup is available if you are staying at a midtown hotel in Shanghai. For home pickup or pickup far from the downtown, please contact our trip advisor for more information.
3. The traffic in Shanghai is very bad sometimes. So we would like to have your patience if our driver and tour guide are a little bit later than the pre-arranged pick-up time due to traffic jam.
4. We offer Chinese lunch. Usually the tourist meals have a bad name. But we try our best to improve the quality of the lunch on the tour.
5. We do arrange some shopping on the tour as listed. Chinese tourist shops have a very bad name on the internet. Actually the things are not so bad as it is. The shopping stops are nice places for you to relax and at the same time to make use of the short time to familiarize yourself with the local products as well as help create more jobs for local people. The shopping is not compulsory.
6. If you feel you enjoyed yourself and have had a great time, gratuities are greatly appreciated.
Price inclusion: 1. Entrance tickets as listed 2. Pick-up service from hotel 3. Air-conditioned tour coach 4. English Speaking tour guide 5. Typical Chinese lunch |
Price exclusion: Tips to the guide and driver |
Travel Tips:
Wear casually and pay attention to the climate in Shanghai
Special features:
1. Only English-speaking travelers in the coach;
2. Well- trained English Speaking tour guide;
3. Keep about ten travelers in a 9 seat Jin Bei Van or 22-seats air-conditioned coach.
Notice from TB
1. All rates on Tour-Beijing.com are subject to reconfirmation from our trip advisors when an actual booking is being made.
2. Tours price are net and non-commissionable.
3. Child definition: from Age 3 to 11 Years. Contact our trip advisors to check if discount rate is available for your kids. Basically, children under 1.2m in height will get child discount rate, except bus tours.
4. All tours & transfers are all based in English Speaking local guides. For other languages, please contact our trip advisors for new quotations.
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