Day 1: Arrive in Shanghai Arrival in Shanghai, met and transferred to your hotel. Free for the rest of the day.
Day 2: Shanghai Todays Activities: Shanghai Museum, Yuyuan Garden, Childrens Palace, Oriental Pearl TV Tower - Shanghai Museum: The biggest museum in China, with a collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese art & cultural relics. The museum is especially famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics, paintings, and calligraphy. - Yuyuan Garden: A traditional Chinese park decorated by beautiful pavilions, miniature lakes, bridges and rock formations. Yuyuan Garden is not only a famous classical garden in South China, but also a major historic and cultural site under state protection. - Childrens Palace: The Shanghai Childrens Palace provides after school education for gifted children. Children participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities, such as music, dance, art, model making, science, technology and computer science. The palace hosts many art performances and science and technology contests which attracts thousands of youngsters. - Oriental Pearl TV Tower: Standing by the Huangpu River with 468 meters high, Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the highest TV Tower in Asia (up to the last floor to see Shanghai scenery).It is a new landmark of Shanghai in 21st century.(B, L)
Day 3: Shanghai - Zhouzhuang - Suzhou Todays Activities: Zhou village, Rickshaw ride - Zhou village: Zhouzhuang is an ancient culture town in Southern China. The town is surrounded by water with many branching streams, stone bridges and old residence with black tiles and white wells. - Rickshaw ride: Through the old streets & Hutongs in Suzhou, you will see local peoples life.(B, L)
Day 4: Suzhou Todays Activities: Humble Administrators Garden, The No.1 Silk Factory, Panmen Gate - Humble Administrators Garden: The garden is the best representative of Chinese classical gardens, constructed in the Ming dynasty. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into three parts: the eastern, middle and western parts. - The No.1 Silk Factory: Suzhou is also famous for its silk production. In the factory you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth. - Panmen Gate: Pan Gate is an ancient city gate with land and water entrances. Once, a gate with land and water entrances was quite typical in ancient China. However, Pan Gate is the only one left.(B, L)
Day 5: Suzhou - Wuxi - Nanjing, Train Todays Activities: Train station Transfer (Wuxi), Train station to Hotel Transfer (Nanjing), Turtle-Hills Isle Park, Li Garden, Huishan Clay Figure Workshop - Turtle-Hills Isle Park: It is on the Huanhu Road of Mei Garden in Wuxi City. - Li Garden: It is located in the Qingqi Village on the west bank of the Lihu Lake about 2.5 kilometers southwest of Wuxi City. - Huishan Clay Figure Workshop: It is world-famous and its history started from Nan Dynasty but prospered in Ming Dynasty.(B, L)
Day 6: Nanjing - Shanghai, Train Todays Activities: Hotel to Train station Transfer (Nanjing), Train station to Hotel Transfer (Shanghai), Zhonghua Gate, Qinhuai River, Confucian Temple - Zhonghua Gate: Zhonghua Men Gate is the largest castle-style gate among the 13 ancient city gates in Nanjing. Its the best preserved and, architecturally, most complicated ancient castle in the world. The elaborately designed castle contains three closed courtyards and four arched gates serving as entrances to the city. - Qinhuai River: The Qinhuai River is a watery slice of history which contains traces of the citys glorious past and activities of its people. The river bore witness to the many comedies and tragedies occurring in the notorious red-light area along its banks, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. - Confucian Temple: The Confucius Temple built in the Song Dynasty is dedicated to worshiping the great philosopher Confucius. This area has been the center of Confucian study for over 1.500 years.(B, L)
Day 7: Depart Shanghai Todays Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Shanghai)(B)
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