Private Zhujiajiao Water Town Tour: An Exploration of Oriental Venice and Shanghai Highlights
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Shanghai
Embark on a private tour of Zhujiajiao Water Town, known as the Oriental Venice, and discover the highlights of Shanghai. Explore the charming water town and visit iconic landmarks like The Bund, Yu Garden, and Jade Buddha Temple. Upgrade your experience with a gondola ride or a Huangpu River Cruise. Book now!
Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Zhujiajiao Ancient Town - Meet your professional guide at your central Shanghai hotel. Enjoy the comfortable ride to Zhujiajiao water town, one of the best-preserved ancient towns near the city. Choose the flexible morning or afternoon departure based on you schedule. Upon arrival, begin to explore the town with your guide, spend some quality time to visit the old stone paved alleyways, walk up ancient “Fang Sheng Bridge”, see interesting local street markets, historical landmarks, colorful handicrafts etc. learn the fascinating custom and culture from your knowledgeable guide. In addition, you will enjoy a relaxing gondola ride.

  • Yuyuan Old Street - In the afternoon, enjoy a flexible customized itinerary in the city and choose to visit some of incredible highlights based on your own preferences, following are recommended sites but if you have been to the places or have other interests please feel free to let your guide know and will make the adjustment accordingly.

Famed as the “China Town” in Shanghai, spend fun time explore the area with its charming Ming and Qing Dynasties architecture, take a walk at nine lucky zigzag bridge in the middle lake of the town. Choose to visit the elegant ancient Chinese garden built more than 5 century, immerse yourself in the beauty of the classic gardens dotted with ponds, pavilions, exquisite rockeries, trees, flowers etc.

  • Shanghai World Financial Center - Next head to Pudong New Island in Lujiazui, marvel at the spectacular skyscrapers and enjoy the nice walk along the sky bridge and set your cameral ready and take the wonderful photos in front of Oriental Pearl Tv tower, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jinmao Tower. If a nice clear day, choose to go up to one of the top observation decks and enjoy a fantastic bird-eye view of the mega Shanghai city.

  • The Bund - Make a stop at the must-see attraction at Bund, take a relaxing scroll along Huangpu River and take in the most fabulous city view with both old and new architectures from 20th to 21st century.

  • Jade Buddha Temple - You may opt to choose to visit the famed Jade Buddha Temple. Explore different complex with various Buddhist status and ornaments, admire the two most beautiful Jade buddha statues from Burma, learn the local fascinating religious custom, culture and wisdom from your expert guide.

If you have been to above-mentioned sites, the other optional sites available to choose based on the time you have such as: Former Frech Concession ,People’s square and Park, Xintiandi, Tianzifang, Shanghai Museum,Nanjing road shopping street etc.

After the wonderful visit, your will be dropped off at your Shanghai hotel or other downtown area as per your requests.

What's Included
  • Private driver with air-conditioned car
  • 3 city site tickets: Shanghai Tower, Jade Buddha Temple, or Yu Garden (with All Inclusive Tour)
  • Boat ride in Zhujiajiao (with All Inclusive Tour)
  • Local tasty Lunch or Dinner (with Tour with Lunch/Dinner option)
  • Hotel pick up and drop-offs in downtown area
  • Local amazing guide
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees or boat ride (If need visit tower or garden total about USD30.00per pax)
  • Food and drinks (if “Private Tour with Lunch or Dinner” option is NOT booked)
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Embark on an enthralling private day journey to Zhujiajiao, the striking ‘Eastern Venice’ water town, and delve into some historical aspects of Shanghai. Divide your time evenly between Zhujiajiao and the city of Shanghai. In addition to the gorgeous water town, you have the option to explore The Bund, the Yu Garden market, Xitiandi, the Jade Buddha Temple, and People Square Park. This excursion offers a guide and transfer service package, or you can upgrade to include a meal. This could also include a gondola ride in Zhujiajiao or a Huangpu River Cruise in Shanghai city.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Location
Zhujiajiao Ancient Town
No.36 Meizhou Road, Qingpu District, Zhujiajiao Town
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Gemma
Jun 4, 2024
Great day tour of Shanghai - Great day tour with Freya. Freya was very friendly and knowledgeable. She was happy to accommodate any ideas of places we wanted to see and had great recommendations.
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Graham_w
May 13, 2024
Such a good day. - We had a really interesting day with Freya our guide. It was a shame about the weather but that cannot be helped. This tour gives you a great introduction to the area and its history and even the time spent in the car is interesting as your guide will be happy to answer all your background questions. Dinner in the evening was excellent and all ran very smoothly. The pace of the day is just right and Freya was happy to adapt the tour a little for us. I will also give a huge thank you to Sunny in the office for making sure that everything was organised as it should be. I cannot rate this high enough.
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Gdenti
Apr 28, 2024
A must do when you are in shanghai! - A must do when your are in Shanghai!! I was hesitating to do this tour because I had only 2 days to spend. I am very glad I did took this toir. Our guide Annie gave us an fantastic experience guiding us through Zhujiajiao village and showed us in a very balanced way , meaning not too fast, not too slow showing us some incredible spots. We really enjoyed it and we highly recommend this unforgetable journer through traditional Shanghai. Thank you Annie!
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Keesjan_h
Apr 22, 2024
Highly recommenden - We had a wonderful time on this trip. Our guide Freya was fantastic. She was very knowledgable about all the places we visited. She was friendly and helpful, answered all of our questions and made good suggestions for our other days in Shanghai. The tour does all it says and a bit more. It was really nice to spend the day with someone that enjoys what she does. The driver was also very friendly, fast and always on time. Very nice new tesla.
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Mayanins2021
Nov 15, 2023
Relaxing with great company. - It was a pleasure to meet our guide Annie. She was very enthusiastic and friendly explaining history in all aspects. We really appreciate her lovely attitude. Will recommend.
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Michel
Oct 22, 2023
Amazing experience ! - We had a great experience booking with Sunny Tours. From booking to the end of our tour Sunny was outstanding and communicated clearly and was very available. Our guide Annie was excellent. She made our first day in Shanghai a pleasant one. She shared her knowledge of the city and major sites with great generosity with a perfect balance of humor and fun facts. We would strongly recommend this tour, operator and guide. A perfect experience !!
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Alexanderm4446
Apr 24, 2023
Chinese cultural experience - Wonderful day trip to experience authentic Chinese culture near Shanghai, the metropolitan city. Definitely recommend to visit the photo store and tryout Chinese traditional dresses. 😄
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Jinangjl
Aug 20, 2020
A Gorgeous Day in Water Town - The Watertown section of this tour was a marvelous adventure and such a pleasant diversion from the bright lights and bustle of downtown Shanghai. Sunny and her driver picked us up at the hotel in a spotless van with plenty of water for the trip (it was a hot day!). After a scenic drive through the suburbs and countryside surrounding Shanghai (during which Sunny gave lots of information about the architecture and history of buildings in the Shanghai area), we arrived at Zhujiajiao - a quiet, beautiful town with numerous canals. Sunny took care of tickets and arrangements, and assisted us with health QR codes and other details we needed for access. We went to some of the shopping areas first, enjoying fun and tasty local fare such as "popcorn ice cream" (made with liguid nitrogen) and various delicious rice wines. Sunny even helped us with a little bartering! We cruised the narrow stone-lined streets and bridges that traversed the canals. Simply beautiful. We then took a gondola-type ride and Sunny added local history and colour to the surroundings. It added a lot to the experience. The Watertown section of the tour took just over 5 hours, including driving time. A great way to spend the first half of our day! The Shanghai City Highlights portion of the tour was the Oriental Pearl Tower (since you can customize your tour with Sunny, this was the only major landmark we had not seen) - an amazing view (and we got some great pics!) Again, Sunny took care of us with top notch service. We can't thank Sunny enough for the care she took in assisting us and her attention to detail. If you need someone for a tour of Shanghai or the surrounding areas, we highly recommend Sunny - she is great!
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Ambers943
Mar 14, 2020
Great private tour! - We had a wonderful tour! It was easy to book and everything was very easy to set up. We were in town for my husbands work conference and only had 1 day without any meetings to see the highlights. Rita was our tour guide and she met us in the lobby of our hotel. We had a wonderful clean car and private driver. The water town was really amazing and Rita did a great job explaining all the delicacies and wares in the market and was willing to help us find souvenirs we were interested in. Next we chose to visit Yuyuan Street and Rita took us to a delicious dumpling and noodle restaurant for lunch. Then we had a tour of Yu Garden which was beautiful. Lastly we went to Jade Buddha Temple, which was truly amazing! I am so glad we had a guide like Rita to help us navigate the city and explain the history behind all the things we were seeing. I highly recommend!
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Kim
Nov 17, 2019
A great day in Shanghai - My sister and I stopped in Shanghai before our cruise. We wished we had booked more days in Shanghai but it was too late to make changes. Claire was our guide and managed to show us everything we wanted to see and the Watertown. She then took us directly to our cruise ship. This was perfect since we were jet lagged and never could have accomplished all of this in one day. We really enjoyed Claire who has excellent English speaking skills and was very nice. She took us to a nice restaurant and overall this was one of the highlights of our trip. I was initially a little nervous about making a down payment, but Sunny was super easy to work with and our guide confirmed the night before by phone and met us promptly in the lobby. I encourage anyone to book for the best use of your time. By the way.....she also had a driver, so was able to drop us off in busy spots and jump out with us and then we were promptly picked up and on to the next.
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