Shanghai Expo 5 Day Tour, Expo Shanghai Tour

Pick up from your hotel, then head to People's Square to visit Shanghai Museum. The museum has the selection of over 112,000 Chinese cultural relics from the Old Stone Age to modern times, which includes bronzeware, calligraphy, paintings, pottery, porcelain, jadeware, stone carvings, Jiaguwen imperial seals, ancient coins, silk embroidery, dyed fabrics, ivory sculptures, ethnic craftsetc. Then walk to the Nanjing Pedestrian Road. It is regarded as the first commercial street in Shanghai. It was first built in 1851. Now Nanjing Road has turned into the number one site for shopping in the city. The large traditional stores no longer dominate the market since modern shopping malls, specialty stores, theaters, and international hotels have mushroomed on both sides of the street. mushroomed on both sides of the street. Wander from the eastern end of Nanjing Road to the Bund. The Bund (Waitan) is one of the most noted architectural symbols of Shanghai. The word "Bund" derives from an Anglo-Indian word for an embankment along a muddy waterfront. The Bund in Shanghai was first used when the first British company opened a office there in 1846. The Bund, or the waterfront,is now surrounded by about 50 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance along from No.1 to No.33, west of No.1 East Zhong Shan Road. After lunch, continue to visit Shanghai Bazaar and Yu Yuan Garden. Yuyuan is the most famous garden in Shanghai. It is located in the heart of Shanghai's Old City (Shanghai bazaar), one of the few existant old tourist places in Shanghai. Shanghai bazaar is teemed with a great number of small streets and lanes where vendors sell their products and food stuffs to the tourists and local people. Then continue to visit the new development zone in Pudong - Lujiazui, which is teemed with the futuristic, avant-garde buildings - Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Building, Bank of China Tower. Taking the elevator to the 88-storey Observation Deck of Jinmao Tower to have a bird's eye view of Huangpu River. At the end of your private day tour, you are transferred back to your hotel in Shangahi.

Pick up from your own hotel in the morning and transferred to a designated hotel, where you get on the Expo Express Shuttle Bus leaving at 9:00am for Expo Site. The tour guide on the bus will take you inside the expo site; you will visit the pavilions on your own. After the full day expo day, you will take the same bus back to the designated hotel, and from where you take a taxi on your own back to your hotel in Shanghai. Check Shanghai Expo Express Shuttle Bus for more information.

Pick up from our your hotel in Shanghai around 8:00am. Drive about 1.5 hour and get to Suzhou. First visit Net Master Garden,the best and most celebrated as a model Ming Dynasty Garden in all of Suzhou. The Garden of the Master of the Nets is really a masterpiece. The good use of space is the most effective thing about this garden. Rock arrangements and beautiful fish pools match each other as do the house and garden parts. The garden also holds many structures of using lattice windows to frame views of flowers or bamboo. Then move on to the Ancient City Gate and Grand Canal. The Panmen City Gate is the oldest city gate in existence in Suzhou city. It used to be one of the eight city gates during the Spring & Autumn Annals (770-476 BC) when Suzhou was the capital of the Wu Kindom. The Gand Canal is one of the greatest ancient projects in China and is the longest man-made canal in world. Then have a short tour of a silk spinning factory to see how Chinese silk has been produced since the 14th century. After lunch, visit the water town of Zhouzhuang. You will board a Chinese style gondala to cruise the waterways of the city. After the tour in Suzhou and Zhouzhuang, transferred back to your midtown hotel in Shanghai.