Shanghai Private Day Tour Featuring Qibao Ancient Town and Zhujiajiao Water Town

Shanghai, China
Duration8h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesGerman, Chinese, Japanese, English, French, Spanish
Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

Overview

Shanghai is an international metropolis with a blend of rich history and culture. This tour will provide you an opportunity to learn about Shanghai’s ancient town and cultural activities. With the assistance of our knowledgeable guide, you will take a boat trip in Qibao Ancient Town and walk into Zhujiajiao Ancient Town. The itinerary includes Qibao Ancient Street, tasting traditional snacks, watching handicraft making, Zhujiajiao Ancient Town, the Qing-period post office, City God Temple and Yuanjin Temple and experiencing traditional cultural activities.

1.Take a boat and visit Qibao Ancient Town
2.Walk into Qibao Ancient Street and visit traditional handcraft
3.Visit Zhujiajiao Kezhi Garden in Han Chinese Clothing
4.Experience traditional cultural activities, such as face painting, handwriting and drawing Chinese fan
5.Zhujiajiao Post Office is the earliest postal service in east China
6.Enjoy fish pedicure about twenty minutes

What's included

  • Private transportation
  • Professional guide
  • Twenty-minute fish pedicure
  • Boat
  • Experience Chinese traditional cultural activities
  • Taste traditional snacks in Qibao Ancient Street

What to expect

  1. Shanghai Qibao Town
    3h · Admission ticket included
    As the only ancient town forming part of greater Shanghai, with a history spanning over one thousand years, Qibao ancient town is more than just a living fossil of ancient Chinese conurbation and urban planning. Qibao Town carries visitors back through the centuries by virtue of its history, culture, architecture and local people. The name originates from the Qibao Temple. A great variety of snacks in Qibao Ancient Town will attract your eye when you are walking the streets of the old town. We will take a boat trip along canals, visit Qibao Ancient Town, taste Shanghai’s traditional snacks and watch traditional handicraft making.
  2. Zhujiajiao Ancient Town
    1h · Admission ticket included
    Located in a suburb of Shanghai city, Zhujiajiao Water Town is well-known throughout the country, with a history of more than 1,700 years. Zhujiajiao makes a name for itself with it's convenient land and water transportation, beautiful scenery, abundant products, is the most well-preserved jiangnan water town in Shanghai and being regarded as Shanghai's Venice.
    In the Zhjiuajiao Water Town, there is an ancient street filled with representative ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, attracting great numbers of domestic and foreign visitors. That is North Street, which is the best preserved ancient street in this suburb. Only one kilometer long, the whole street is at once primitively simple, yet very elegant. Strolling on this ancient thoroughfare and appreciating the historic buildings, long-established stores, and old bridges as well as the many narrow lanes is another enjoyment.
  3. Zhujiajiao Kezhi Garden
    1h · Admission ticket included
    Kezhi Garden is the largest manorial garden featureing beautiful sightseeing and quiet and secluded surroundings. It consists mainly of three parts, including a hall area, an artificial hill area and a garden area. In the artificial hill area, there is magnificent symbolic architecture - a foursquare five-story building, on the top of which stands a diametric pavilion. This building is considered the tallest architecture in Zhujiajiao Town.
    We will spend an hour visiting Zhujiajiao Kezhi Garden in Han Chinese Clothing and experiencing Chinese traditional cultural activities, such as face painting, handwriting and drawing Chinese fan.
  4. Zhujiajiao Bridge
    30m
    It is said that to visit Zhujiajiao Water Town without seeing the bridges means that you have not really been to Zhujiajiao at all. Bridges here are distinctive and old, built during Ming and Qing Dynasties. The old Zhujiajiao Town is thoroughly connected by 36 delicate spans in different shapes and styles, from wooden to stone to marble.
  5. Zhujiajiao Chenghuangmiao Temple
    2h · Admission ticket included
    We will visit landmarks including the Qing-period post office, the City God Temple and Yuanjin Temple. Zhujiajiao post office is the earliest post office in east China, which is the only well-preserved Qing dynasty post office in east China.
    Then, we will watch the making of traditional snacks and enjoy twenty-minute fish pedicure.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Shanghai downtown

End point

Shanghai downtown

Pickup details

We pick up from hotels centrally located in Shanghai.

Additional information

  • 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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