Shanghai to Huangshan & Beyond Luxury Walk 6D5N, Fully Guided

Walking distance: approx. 6 - 8 hours walking, easy grade

Meet your local guide at the hotel lobby to commence the signature Shanghai walking today.

For history buffs and art aficionados, the Shanghai Museum's extensive Chinese art collection is sure to impress. Walk to explore the incredible museum housing more than 120, 000 pieces of collections. Many of them are China's most precious antiques such as jade, furniture, costumes, pottery, calligraphy and currency.

Wander the maze of pavilions and arched bridges of Yu Garden, one of the renowned gardens in south China retaining some of best Chinese traditional architecture and culture. The garden houses many items with unique characteristics. Pavilions, Ponds, trees, doorways, and rockeries are exquisitely placed, making changing views when you make every step forward. Outside of the garden is a market full of souvenirs and eateries, where you will have lunch at the birthplace of the world-famous dumplings.

Take a Skywalk atop Shanghai World Financial Center (492 meter high, the tallest skyscraper in China) and catch a panoramic view of the Shanghai skyline.

Board a cruise to watch the city sparkle from the shimmering Huangpu River. Standing on the top floor of the boat, enjoy a close look at the grace of the Bund and the impressive modern skylines of Pudong under the atmospheric cover of darkness.

Enjoy your welcome dinner at a famous Chinese restaurant featuring the finest of Shanghainese and Cantonese cuisine, drawing on a treasure trove of regional recipes and invigorating them with a contemporary flair.

After dinner, guided night walking along the Bund and discover the 'museum of buildings'. The architecture along the Bund is a living museum of the colonial history of the 1800s. You'll have opportunities to view 52 buildings of various architectural styles, including Gothic, baroque, and neoclassical styles. Those buildings once housed banks, trading companies, consulates from United Kingdom, France, Russia, United States, etc. Roaming among the architectural complexes, you'll gain a better understanding of the century-long charm of this city.

Your guide will escort you back to your hotel to relax.

Walking distance: Approx. 6 - 8 hours walking, easy grade

Your guide will meet you at the hotel lobby and take you to the streets far away from the mass tourists.

Walk to discover the secrets of historical Hongkou district and the local life in Hongkou's peaceful streets and beautifully preserved alleys.

Walk along the Shanghai Old Street, part of the most ancient area of Shanghai stretching from Zhonghua Road to Henan South Road. It is a nice walk wandering around to taste good street food, appreciate the old architectures and look for inexpensive souvenirs.

Walk down the elegant tree-lined streets of the French Concession and wander through the chic restaurants and cafes of Xintiandi, retaining the characteristics of Shikumen houses.

Head to Tianzifang to feel the local pulse, browsing clothing and handicrafts fashioned by local designers and visiting the burgeoning art galleries.

Visit Propaganda post museum hidden under the basement of an unmarked residential tower block, with fascinating collection of over 5,000 propaganda posters, many rescued from recycling centres and rubbish bins and spanning from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s.

Then you will join a gourmet night walk to get your tastebuds buzzing and leave your belly full. You'll taste a few local authentic night eats paired with surprisingly delicious 'Proudly Made in China' wines, including Chardonnay, Riesling and a hard-to-find biodynamic wine from inner Mongolia.

Walking distance: approx. 6 - 8 hours walking, easy grade

Your guide will meet you at the hotel lobby and escort you to Suzhou.

Visit Humble Administrators Garden, the largest and finest garden in Suzhou with 5 hectares of impressive displays of Chinese garden featuring zigzagging bridges, numerous pavilions, ponds, islands, bamboo groves, and bonsai.

Hike up the historical Tiger Hill to enjoy natural beauty.

Visit Panmen Gate, the oldest city gate of Suzhou and the only existing water and land gate in China.

Walk through Silk Museum to learn Chinese silk culture and silk's history.

Arrive in Tongli, a water town of over 1,000 years old, reputed as 'the Oriental Venice'. Walk along the ancient town to view garden-style architectures, ancient bridges and old streets. Cross three bridges to learn local senior birthday, marriage and child birth custom.

Enjoy a wooden-made boat ride along the ancient canal.

Tea ceremony with a tea master.

Enjoy fine Chinese dinner at a traditional Chinese courtyard residence with private performance of Suzhou Pingtan (a regional musical/oral performance art form).

Walking distance: approx. 10.5 km, approx. 5 hours walking, moderate grade

Start the day practicing Tai Chi with a master and learn some basic gestures and authentic methods to improve internal energy (Qi) that helps to maintain people's good health.

Your guide will meet you at your hotel lobby and escort you to board on a bullet train (first class seat) to the Huangshan.

Hike up the Huangshan (10.5 km, approx. 5 hours), one of the most famous mountains and one of Top 10 hiking routes in China. It's well known for its breathtaking scenery of peculiar shaped granite peaks, woody pine trees and hot springs. It has been an inspiration for traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography.

Enjoy local Anhui cuisine for dinner

Option 1: Huangshan - Hongcun Village - Xidi Village (8 - 9 km, approx. 3 - 4 hours walking, Easy to Moderate Grade)

Hike (approx. 2km) to the top and enjoy an amazing view of the sunrise, then take a cable car down the mountain.

Walk Xidi - Hongcun Ancient Pathway (8 km, approx. 3 hours walking). You'll walk through the most rural areas to see quiet villages, paddy fields, mulberry fields, tea plantations, and bamboo forests.

Xidi Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a history of 900 years, retains much of the appearance of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Two main streets and 99 lanes are paved with cobbles or black stones, lined with well-preserved aged houses. Rivers winding through the village and hills at the backdrop make Xidi very picturesque. It’s famed for peach blossom and known as one of the well-preserved hamlets of its kind in China.

After having an authentic Hui style lunch at a local restaurant, continue you trip to Hongcun Village, another UNESCO World Heritage Site with a history of 800 years, with traditional Southern Hui-style architecture kept intact along its winding waterways.

Start the day practicing Tai Chi with a master and learn some basic gestures and authentic methods to improve internal energy (Qi) that helps to maintain people's good health.

Option 2: West Sea Canyon Hiking (approx. 16 km, 6 - 7 hours walking, very steep, Moderate to Hard Grade)

Hike to the top (approx. 2km) and enjoy an amazing view of the sunrise.

Hiking Huangshan's West Sea Canyon (approx. 15 km, 6- 7 hours walking, very steep). Hike to the Cloud-dispelling Pavilion and then descend down to the West Sea Grand Canyon. The hiking trip covers the most essential parts - the 1st ring, 2nd ring, Button, Plunk Way, and Fairy-Walking Bridge.

This hiking route is a big challenge, including walking on some impressive footpath suspending in mid-air driven into sheer granite cliffs, and steep stairs with a 60-plus-degree drop. However, the hiking is quite rewarding, providing you with postcard like scenery of pine-clad Chinese mountains shrouded in mist and jaw-dropping cliffs.

Take a cable car down the mountain and return to your hotel for a relaxation.

Walk along the stone-paved path in Nanping Village where still preserves 300 ancient Hui-style houses and buildings built in Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as 36 ancient wells and 72 lanes. It provides some of the settings for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (The movie won four Oscars at the 73rd annual Academy Awards.)

Walk through Shexian Tangyue Memorial Arches.

You guide escort you to Huangshan airport for departure.