Suzhou Trip Overview
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.
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Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Suzhou, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Suzhou Railway Station North Square Parking Lot, China, Jiang Su Sheng, Su Zhou Shi, Gu Su Qu, 车站路27号 邮政编码: 215003
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.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Yu Garden (Yuyuan), No.218 Anren Street, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200010 China
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.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Stop At: Jade Buddha Temple, 170 An Yuan Road, Shanghai China
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!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Former French Concession, Puxi Central, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200000 China
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.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Shanghai Bund Musical, No.1700 Beijing West Road, Jing’an District JDF Yunfeng Theater, Shanghai 200040 China
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.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tianzifang, Tianzifang, Shanghai
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.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Suzhou Railway Station North Square Parking Lot, China, Jiang Su Sheng, Su Zhou Shi, Gu Su Qu, 车站路27号 邮政编码: 215003
After your Shanghai tour is finished, your personal guide will accompany on the train ride back to your lovely Suzhou hotel.
Duration: 30 minutes
