East China: Shanghai Suzhou Hangzhou & Mt. Huangshan

Itinerary

• Day 1: Shanghai, Arrival

  Upon your arrival in Shanghai, your personal guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is yours to relax.

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• Day 2: Shanghai City Tour

  As a microcosm of old Shanghai, the Bund will show you a spectacular international architecture and history exhibition. Listen to your personal guide tell the stories behind the historical buildings and get an in-depth understanding of the ever-changing Shanghai. Followed by the tour is Jade Buddha Temple, a silk workshop, and then take a relaxing stroll around Fuxing Park, where can see the locals enjoy their leisure time, such as dancing, playing cards, playing Tai Chi and badminton. Later, continue to Bugaoli to see the traditional Stone Gate (Stone Arched Gate), stop at a food market and try some popular dim sum. By such a tour, you can get an overview understanding of the vibrant, dynamic and complicated urban landscape hidden behind the blazing face of Shanghai.

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  • Shanghai

• Day 3: Shanghai - Suzhou, Tongli Water Town

  Take a morning train to Suzhou. On arrival, your local guide and driver will pick you up and escort you to visit Tongli Water Town. It is a pleasant place and like a little oasis from a busy city. Rambling in the old town, you will experience another side to life in China.

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  • Suzhou

• Day 4: Suzhou - Hangzhou

  Start today's tour from the Lingering Garden, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the best-planned garden in Suzhou. Afterward, embark on a rickshaw to glimpse at the locals' life and move on to Pan Gate Scenic Area, where you will see a 2,500-year-old ancient city gate that combines a waterway and a land way perfectly. Later on, visit Suzhou No.1 Silk Factory. Built in 1926, now it is an assembly of a museum, producing mill, sales house and fashion show platform.

  After the tour, head to Hangzhou by high-speed train. Upon arrival, your local guide and driver will greet you and escort you to your hotel.

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  • Hangzhou

• Day 5: Hangzhou Highlights

  Follow your tour guide to discover the poetic charm of West Lake in the morning. Whether rainy or sunny, you are always treated with a typical picture with the classical beauty of China: tree-lined causeways, exquisite pavilions, stone bridges that contrast with the water and leisurely boats on the lake.

  In the afternoon, continue the tour to Lingyin Temple, Dragon Well Tea Plantation and Museum of Hu Qing Yu Tang Traditional Chinese Medicine Drugstore. At the drugstore, you can see people buy different Chinese herbal medicine, just as what could be seen hundreds of years ago.

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  • Hangzhou

• Day 6: Hangzhou - Huangshan

  Board on a high-speed train heading to Huangshan. Arrive after around 2 hours, meet your local guide at the railway station and then be escorted to visit Hongcun, a picturesque village that perfectly embodies local people's daily life and their beautiful dwelling architecture. When the tour ends, head to your hotel in the city for check-in.

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  • Huangshan

• Day 7: Mt. Huangshan

  After breakfast, drive about 1.5 hours to the foot of Mt. Huangshan (the Yellow Mountain), where Yungu cable car will take you up to the mountain. When getting out of the cable car, you need hike 20 to 30 minutes along the stone steps to reach your hotel. Check in and have a short break at the hotel, and then follow your tour guide to enjoy the fabulous scenery of Beihai Area.

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  • Mt. Huang Shan

• Day 8: Huangshan, Departure

  Get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise, and then back to your hotel to have breakfast. Afterward, proceed to discover the incredible beauty of the West Sea Area. After that, take the cable car down the mountain and head to the railway station or airport for your departure flight or train.

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