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3 Days Shanghai Highlights

3-day private journey

3 Days Shanghai Highlights

Shanghai

Updated November 2026

Length
3 days
Route
Shanghai
Starts
Shanghai
Ends
Shanghai

Why this route

How do you imagine China nowadays? From the TV news, magzines, or photo galleries? This Shanghai Highlights tour invite you to visit the most popular highlights in Shanghai, including the historical and modern sites, and witness China nowadays.

Day by day

The itinerary

  1. Day 01 Arrive in Shanghai

    Transfer via: International Flight arranged by you

    Welcome to Shanghai! Upon Arrival, you are greeted and helped transfer to check into the hotel. Then depart from your hotel to visit the Bund. After that is the Nanjing Road.

    The Bund: Have a stroll along the waterfront to experience the smells, sights and sounds of the old "Wall Street" in Shanghai. Banks, trading houses, residences, hotels and clubs all had a view of bustling Huangpu River traffic as they shared in the city s rising and falling fortunes. Then walking along the famous shopping street-Nanjing Road. It is said that shopping in Shanghai is the most varied and rewarding in China.

    Nanjing Road: 5km long , it is one of the main business centres.

  2. Day 02 Shanghai BL

    In the morning visit the Shanghai Museum. Follow with the Yu Garden and Yuyuan Market. After having lunch at a nice local restaurant, visit the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower. At the end of the day trip, you will be transferred to your hotel.

    Shanghai Museum: This is a large-scale museum of Chinese ancient art and cultural relics.With a collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese art & cultural relics, the museum especially characterize bronzes, chinawares, calligraphies and paitings.

    Yu Garden: This delightfully restored labyrinth of tiny specialty shops, tea and snack houses centered a Ming-dynasty mandarin Suzhou-style garden is a fascinating spot to people-watch over a pot of tea, to shop for unique souvenirs and to get a feel for Old Shanghai. It is well worth a meander through the Yuyuan Garden, which has many scenic courtyards decorated with baroque rockery, pools and flora, all connected by corridors and passageways.

    Yuyuan Market: It is a bazaar of stores that sells traditional Chinese arts and crafts and souvenirs. The stores sell a mish-mash of items including chopsticks, Chinese medicine, walking sticks, fans, silk umbrellas, bamboo and rattan furniture, goldfish, pottery, plus much more. Part of the market has also been transformed into an indoor mall. Food is also a great temptation in Yuyuan Market with local delicacies such as xiao long bao, pigeon egg dumplings and spicy cold noodles from the street stalls or numerous restaurants.

    Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower: With its 468 meters high (1,536 feet), the tower is the third tallest TV and radio tower in the world as well as the tallest structure in Asia. It is the best place to have a birds-eye-view of Shanghai City. With its unique and amazing design, it has become the new landmark of Shanghai and a big magnet for tourists. The viewing area is half-way up and offers a splendid unparalleled view of the Bund, the emerging new modern Shanghai. The view of Shanghai from this height fills you with wonder at the beauty that surrounds you.

  3. Day 03 Shanghai B

    Transfer via: International Flight arranged by you

    After breakfast, you will be escorted to the airport for your flight to your next destination.

The fine print

What is in the price

Included

  • Entrance Fees
  • Meals as specified in the itinerary
  • Private Transfers
  • Private Tour Escort for Sightseeing
  • 2 Nights Hotel Accomodation
  • Service Charge & Government Taxes
  • Luggage Transfers: between airports and hotels
  • Arrangements

Not included

  • Entry or Exit Shanghai Airfare or train tickets
  • Visa Fees
  • Excess Baggage Charges
  • Meals which are not specified
  • Single Room Supplement
  • Gratuities: Tips to guides or drivers
  • Any Private Expenses

Arriving and leaving

Arrive at
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (Google Map)
Depart from
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (Google Map)
Better date to start
July–August and the first week of October are peak; book eight to twelve weeks ahead for those dates.

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