8 or 10 Hours Private Old Culture in New Shanghai Tour (or Layover)

Your excellent tour guide will pick you up from your centrally located hotel (or airport, port, Disland according to option) at your chosen time. Discuss the planned itinerary with your guide. If there’s anything else you are interested in and it’s not a part of your itinerary, we will try to modify the tour as you wish. The tour is 100% flexible, designed to suite your interests.

This itinerary normally contains: Jade Buddha Temple, Yu Garden, Old Town market, City God Temple, lunch break & Confucian Temple etc.

Then visit Jade Buddha Temple, where you will: Experience Buddhist culture via “Scripture copying”. Buddhist Scriptures copying is a time-honored tradition for Chinese Buddhist believers; and, is an important Chinese calligraphy practice. By focusing on Scripture copying, you will likely feel a calming effect on your mood, find inner spiritual tranquility, enhancing the wisdom of life. (Note…in the event that there are other activities arranged by the Temple, which happens occasionally, Scripture copying cannot be fully guaranteed.).

Not mention your experienced guide will introduce you the priceless treasures of Jade Buddha statues with the long history of Buddhism.

As it is active temple you can feel the spirit of monks and their way of living.

Entrance tickets included.

Then, Yu Garden, a 400 years old classical garden, originally built by the wealthy Pan family, with rockeries, ponds, pavilions, towers, plants, the garden mixes Chinese cultures, lifestyles, philosophies, believes and traditions with landscape aesthetics. (Note: Yu Garden closed at every Monday.)

Entrance tickets included.

City God Temple. This is a Taoist Temple. As a Chinese local religion, Taoism is famous for the theory of Tin & Yang, Fengshui, Tai-chi, and Chinese traditional 12 zodiac calculation.

Here you can try to find the zodiac gods specific to you and your families/friends.

Entrance tickets included.

Then, Old Town. You will find yourself in an ancient China with a number of traditional buildings around you. Here you can enjoy shopping of all kind Chinese souvenirs such as tea, silk, chopsticks, pearls, jade, brushes, inks, paintings and many others.

Food Testing Break. Feel free to tell your guide when & what type of cuisine you are interested in try. Your guide will have a long list of culinary choices for your satisfaction.

Food Testing is at guests’ own expense.

After food break, Confucian Temple. your guide will tell you Confucius' story. Confucianism is not a religion, but instead, it’s 2500 years of magnificent influence on the whole of Chinese culture.

Confucius has been so long and so fervently worshiped in China so much so that Chinese truly respect him and treating him as a founder of formal religion.

We will visit of Confucian Temple, experience a traditional tea tasting process while learning about Confucian.

Optional suggestions such as Bund, Shanghai Towers, Huangpu River cruise, Former French Concession, Xin tian di, Tian zi fang, AP Plaza Market, Sonth Bund Fabric Market, Jewish Refugees Museum etc. Time permitted.

After a flexible city tour, any sightseeing spot guests wish to end in Shanghai city.

Guests from airports, Baoshan cruise port or Disney area hotels etc, which is far from central Shanghai, we offer pick up/drop off at option.