Shanghai Attractions

Guided China Tour Shanghai Attractions Shanghai has its colonial neighbourhoods, museums, historic homes, shopping avenues and the treasures like The Bund, Yu Yuan (and Old Town), the Shanghai Museum and the Hurangpu River Cruise. The best way to see Shanghai is with organized tour in the company of an English speaking guide with driver. You will be able to cover the major sight totally hassle free! The most famous embankment in China is The Bund along the west shore of the Huangpu River. Many of the awesome colonial structures you can see have become an indelible part of Shanghai’s cityscape. The old buildings while a raised promenade on the east side of the road allow visitors strolls along the river with marvellous views of both the Bund and Pudong’s new skyscrapers and modern towers across the river. This constituting Shanghai’s the 21st Century Bund. Along the Western edge of the Huangpu River, the Suzhou Creek in the north to Jinling Lu in the south. The main avenue (Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu) on the west side runs along the Bund is the colonial edifices of yore, while the eastern side is taken by the Bund Promenade. Early mornings see tai chi practitioners and ballroom dancers out in force. Best is return to the area at night when the Bund buildings are all aglow and great for photography. The highlights of the Bund are the colonial era buildings including the former British Consulate, Customers House, former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and Peace Hotel. On its north end, Suzhou Creek enters the Huangpu River beneath the iron Waibaidu Bridge. On the river shore now stands a granite obelisk, Monument to the People’s Heroes dedicated to Chinese patriots beginning in the 1840s. The Bund History Museum contains a few artefacts and some interesting photographs of the Bund. Huangpu Gongyuan park is free admission, a British built garden built in 1868. From downtown Shanghai to the Pudong New Area and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, there is also a status of Chen Yi, Shanghai’s first mayor after 1949 and a dead ringer for Mao Zedong, at least in bronze. The pleasant enough Yu Yuan is a classical Chinese garden is a must see for every tourist, the overexposed garden overflows daily with hordes of visitors, and is no longer the pastoral haven it once was. A maze of Ming Dynasty pavilions, elaborate rockeries arched bridges, and goldfish ponds, all encircled by an undulating dragon wall. Huangpu River Cruise along the Huangpu River, artery both to the East China Sea and to the mouth of the Yangtze River. You can see the two Shanghai, east and west, past and future.