Arrive Suzhou
After your arrival at Suzhou, you will be met and transferred to the hotel with your private guide & vehicle. And you will be free at leisure for the rest of the day.
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Today you will firstly have a cruise on the Grand Canal, which ranks alongside the Great Wall of China as the country's greatest engineering achievement and it is the longest man-made waterway in world. Then visit the Pan Gate, an ancient city gate with land and water entrances. One gate with land and water entrances was quite typical in ancient China. Pan Gate is the only one left. Later on, you will go to visit Lingering Garden. Suzhou is famous for its the Gardens. Lingering Garden is an elaborate succession of small gardens. Lingering in the garden you would marvel at this unique architecture art. Suzhou is also famous for its silk production. In the No.1 Silk factory you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth. After that, you will go to see Tiger Hill, one of the most famous sight of Suzhou, Entitled as "the most famous place in Wuzhong". Enjoy the Garden Show in the evening.
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Take a 30 minutes Rickshaw ride. Sitting on the rickshaw through the old town of Suzhou, you will see the small Hutongs,the open markets and the local people's life. Then visit Ouyang, one of the famous garden in Suzhou, where you can see the local opera under the Pavilion of the Ou garden. Then you will go to Hanshan Temple. It used to be one of ten most famous temples in China where there are a lot of cultural relics. Then you will enjoy Humble Administrator's Garden. The garden is most representative of Chinese classical gardens in the Ming dynasty. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into three parts: the eastern, middle and western parts.
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Take a 30 minutes Rickshaw ride. Sitting on the rickshaw through the old town of Suzhou, you will see the small Hutongs,the open markets and the local people's life. Then visit Ouyang, one of the famous garden in Suzhou, where you can see the local opera under the Pavilion of the Ou garden. Then you will go to Hanshan Temple. It used to be one of ten most famous temples in China where there are a lot of cultural relics. Then you will enjoy Humble Administrator's Garden. The garden is most representative of Chinese classical gardens in the Ming dynasty. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into three parts: the eastern, middle and western parts.
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Today you will enjoy a full day tour to Zhouzhuang, which is an ancient culture town in South China. The town in surrounded by water with many branching streams, stone bridges and old residence with black tiles and white wells. Also visit Luzhi, a typical town in the southern area of the Yangtze River,with history of over 1,000 years, where you can enjoy the traditional Chinese houses, stone bridges,etc. Then be transferred to Shanghai.
