Experience Shanghai and Hangzhou on this four day tour that captures the highlights of these two cities. Commencing in Shanghai – the Pearl of the Orient, you’ll enjoy exploring the old world of this city with its commercial pedigree dating back centuries. Wander through ancient gardens, colonial buildings, and streets lined with the residences of the cultural and political elite from a time in history when glamour ruled. Check The Bund, Yuyuan Garden, and famous Shanghai Museum off your list, along with a visit to the Former French Concession. Travel by high speed train to Hangzhou and be captivated by the beautiful West Lake and the impressive Lingyin Temple. Taken at a relaxed pace, allowing ample time to absorb the every aspect of the adventure, this tour includes accommodation in a choice of four or five star hotels, all transfers, high speed train travel, enthusiastic local bilingual guides who care, and the chance to experience unique insights to China. With maximum flexibility the hallmark of our approach to creating beautiful travel memories, you can take this tour on its own or combine with any of our other multi-day small group, private or custom tours. Ready to travel? Let’s book your tour!
Enjoy a day of contrasts as you travel to and from the day’s destination in a high speed train, to take pleasure in the peace and beauty of the famous West Lake located in the middle of a modern city.
Enjoy in this tour an interesting blend of ancient built environment with its own wonderful characteristics, and the contrast of dynamic modern China. Add to this the challenging hikes around the magnificent quirky natural scenery of one of China’s sacred, mystical mountains, and this seven day Hangzhou tour is perfect travel memory material.
There is much to enjoy in this tour of immersion into ancient Chinese culture, architecture, craft and gardens, when you can try your hand at traditional skills. Whether picking tea, making an umbrella or kite, wondering at the skill of monks’ carvings, being enchanted by the picture post-card beauty of the lake or ancient buildings, there are so many memorable experiences waiting for you.
There is much to enjoy in this tour of immersion into ancient Chinese architecture, craft and culture, when you can try your hand at traditional skills. Whether picking tea, making an umbrella or kite, wondering at the skill of monks’ carvings, being enchanted by the picture post-card beauty of the lake, or ancient architecture, there are so many memorable experiences waiting for you.
There is much to enjoy in this tour of immersion into ancient Chinese architecture, craft and culture, when you can try your hand at traditional skills. Whether picking tea, making an umbrella or kite, wondering at the skill of monks’ carvings or being enchanted by the picture post-card beauty of the lake, there are so many memorable experiences.
Enjoy a two day holiday in beautiful Hangzhou and Qiandao Lake. Visit the icons of Hangzhou, including West Lake, Feilai Peak, and Lingyin Temple. Make like a local and visit an operating tea plantation where you can acquaint yourself with all the very best of Chinese tea traditions. Travel from Hangzhou to Qiandao Lake. Known by locals as Thousand Island Lake, you’ll quickly understand why when you take in the view from Meifeng Peak. Return to Hangzhou to conclude the tour. Including all transfers, a friendly knowledgeable local guide, road travel in a new, airconditioned vehicle, this tour can be taken on its own or added to any other China tour travel arrangements.
A different view of Hangzhou and Mount Huangshan awaits on this easygoing five day fully guided tour. Kick off the adventure in Hangzhou, visiting local icons, including West Lake, Lingyin Temple at Feilai Peak, and an operating tea plantation where you can experience the rich culture and tradition of Chinese tea. Discover more about ancient crafts practised in China at the Workmanship Demonstration Pavilion and perhaps even turn your hand to one as well. Depart Hangzhou and travel by high speed train to Huangshan. Beautiful mountain top scenery awaits here as you ride by cable car and then hike to different points across the peak of Mount Huangshan. Appreciate exactly why the internationally acclaimed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon film was made here. Providing the chance to truly savor some of China’s most beautiful treasures, you’ll find the English speaking guides, careful attention to detail, and opportunity to explore within a relaxed timetable, the perfect way to enjoy real China. Ready to book? Let’s help you explore more.
Combine the best of Hangzhou and Huangshan in this ultimate exploration through architecture and landscapes that have inspired philosophers and poets for centuries. Commence the tour in Hangzhou, home of the iconic West Lake and Longjing Tea. Here you can cruise leisurely on the lake itself and then explore the nearby famous Lingyin Temple and Wuzhen Water Town. Discover the way traditional culture, art, and architecture have been preserved here in true form. Board the high speed train to Huangshan and prepare yourself for a peak experience. Ride the cable car up Mount Huangshan and then savor the opportunity to capture beautiful travel memories from such well known outlooks as Begin-to-Believe Peak, the majestic Lion Peak, and the Writing-Brush Peak. Overnight at Mount Huangshan and then finish the tour in Hongcun Village, a beautiful town made famous by the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A delightful tour that offers a quintessential experience of some of China’s most beautiful natural and man made scenery, you’ll appreciate friendly, knowledgeable English speaking guides, the choice of four and five star accommodation, flexible dining options, and the chance to experience real China. Book and take this tour on its own, or combine with any other of our thoughtfully curated China tours from 20 different destinations. Just ask us how.
Enjoy a welcome change of pace in the serenity of the tea terraces on the mountains and slopes of the countryside outside Hangzhou. Experience at first hand the entire tea process from growing to consuming, with special cultural rituals, rounding the day off with a relaxing cruise on a picturesque, symbolic lake.
