Itinerary (9:00 am to 5:00 pm):
09:00 AM Hotel/Cruise Terminal Pick Up
10:00 AM Start the tour at Jade Buddha Temple
11:00 AM Visit Yu Garden and stroll along Shanghai Old Street
12:00 PM Lunch in a local authentic Shanghai cuisine restaurant
01:30 PM Spend the afternoon in Shanghai Museum and People's Square
03:30 PM Tour around the Bund/Najing Road/Former French Concession
04:30 PM Stop by Xintiandi (Time Permitting)
05:00 PM Return to Hotel/Cruise Terminal
Recommended Points of interest:
**Jade Buddha Temple, literally Jade Buddha Chan Temple, is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, China. As with many modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 metres tall, 3 tonnes), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing Buddha's death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore, and visitors may mistake this larger sculpture for the original, smaller piece.
**Shanghai Museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art. The Shanghai Museum houses several items of national importance, including one of three extant specimens of a "transparent" bronze mirror from the Han Dynasty.
**Bund is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area. It usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. This was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. A building boom at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century led to the Bund becoming a major financial hub of East Asia. Directly to the south, the former French Bund (the quai de France, part of the Shanghai French Concession) was of comparable size to the Bund and was located northeast of the walled city, but it was formerly more a working harbourside.
**Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the world's busiest shopping streets. Today's Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West. In some contexts, "Nanjing Road" refers only to what was pre-1945 Nanjing Road, today's Nanjing Road East, which is largely pedestrianised. Prior to 1949, the road's English name was rendered "Nanking Road" using the standard romanization of the time.
**Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai, China. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart. Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres), and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style.