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| Shanghai Travel Guide |
 Where to Go: Oriental Pearl Tower, Yuyuan Garden, the Shanghai Museum, the Buddha Temple, the Bund, the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition, the Zhujiaojiao Ancient Water Town and etc. When to Go: March to May, September to November are the best time to take a Shanghai tour. Shanghai Tour Type: China Wonder Tours offers private one day Shanghai tour, private Shanghai tour, customized Shanghai and around tour as well as China tour with Shanghai including. |
| The Bund | |
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Where the great foreign commercial houses and banks built their imposing office buildings before 1930s, the Bund is considered one of the most recognizable architectural symbols of Shanghai. As a famous waterfront district in Shanghai, the Bund is a good place for enjoying the bracing air and fine sunshine as well as seeing something of the many activities along the Huangpu River. |
| Nanjing Road | |
 | Nanjing Road is considered as one of the World's Seven Great Roads in the 1930s and always mentioned in travel guides as a must see of China tour. It will be built into a leading world-famous commercial destination, just like Fifth Avenue in New York and the Champs Elyees in Paris. Here along its 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles), you will find over 600 shops that on average are visited by some 1.7 million people each day. It is said to be one of the best shopping streets in China. |
| Yuyuan Garden | |
 | First Built over 400 years ago, Yunyuan Garden is the only fully restored classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. It has quite a few scenic courtyards dotted with baroque rockery, pools and flora, all connected by corridors and passageways and cultural relics including century-old furniture, calligraphy and paintings, clay sculptures and brick carvings, some inscriptions and couplets. Surrounding the gardens is Yuyuan Market where visitors can get a glimpse into the local's daily life. |
| The Jade Buddha Temple | |
 | Built between 1911 and 1918, yet the old-time and classical architectural style makes the temple unique and elegant. The Jade Buddha Temple is one of the most famous Buddhist temples to be found in Shanghai and one of Shanghai's top tourist destinations. The conspicuous attractions in the Jade Buddha Temple are white jade Buddha scattered with the whole halls, and the leading one of which is a 1.9-meter-high sitting Buddha encrusted with jewels and said to weighs 1,000 kg. |
| The Oriental Pear TV Tower | |
 | The Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with an astonishing height of 468 meters, ranks as the world's third tallest TV tower, after the 553-meter CN Tower in Toronto and the 535-meter Moscow TV Tower. It is a symbolic architecture and a popular sightseeing for tourists in Shanghai. It has three observatory levels, of which the highest one is at 350 m. The sightseeing platform offers a splendid unparalleled view of this historic city. |
| Shanghai Museum | |
 | The world-renowned Shanghai Museum features the finest collections of ancient bronzes, pottery, paintings and calligraphies, porcelain, jade wares, stone carvings, Jiaguwen (inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones), imperial seals and etc. The Museum resembles a large bronze mirror seen from above, and a bronze Ding, an ancient cooking vessel from the distance. It is ranked as the best museum in China. |
| The French Concession | |
 | The French Concession is the area of Shanghai once occupied by French in the mid-19th century. It offers unparalleled examples of old lane houses, apartments, garden houses and villas which remain untouched in mid-19th and early 20th century European styles. The French Concession provides you an amazing area for wandering, imagining the life of Shanghai's wealthy community prior to World War II. |
| Songqingling Guju | |
 | Song Qingling (1893-1981), described as one of China's outstanding women of the 20th century, was wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China. Former Residence of Song Qingling (song qingling guju) was originally built in 1920 with the post and panel structure, covers an area of 4,333 square meters. The layout of the main building still keeps up the original style of Song Qingling before her death. |
