Suzhou 4 Day Highlight Tour

Arriving at Suzhou Railway Station, you are met by our tour guide and transferred to your hotel in Suzhou. You are at leisure and explore the city on your own for rest of the day.

Pick up from your around 8:30am and start your Suzhou private day tour. First visit Suzhou Museum (Monday closed). Suzhou Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, paintings, calligraphies, and handmade crafts. Then move on to the Humble Administrator's Garden . The Humble Administrator’s Garden is one of the four most famous private gardens in Suzhou, crowned as the World Cultural Heritage Site along with other classical gardens of Suzhou.

Then walk along Pingjiang Road . This 800-year old street is the best preserved ancient “water lane” ( in contrast with “water town”) in Suzhou. The 1600-meter cobblestone path runs alongside with a canal with willows dipping their branches in the water, cute little bridges that cross and all flanked by old white-washed local houses.

After Chinese lunch, continue to visit Net Master Garden , the best and most celebrated as a model Ming Dynasty Garden in all of Suzhou. The Garden of the Master of the Nets is really a masterpiece. The good use of space is the most effective thing about this garden. Rock arrangements and beautiful fish pools match each other as do the house and garden parts. The garden also holds many structures of using lattice windows to frame views of flowers or bamboo.

Head to the Ancient City Gate and Grand Canal. The Panmen City Gate is the oldest city gate in existence in Suzhou city. It used to be one of the eight city gates during the Spring & Autumn Annals (770-476 BC) when Suzhou was the capital of the Wu Kindom. The Gand Canal is one of the greatest ancient projects in China and is the longest man-made canal in world.

At the end of the day tour, you are transferred back either to your hotel around 5:00pm.

Pick up from your hotel in Suzhou around 08:30am and first drive to the famous watertown - Tongli Town . The ancient Tongli Town has a history of over 1000 years, a typical watertown in the Yangzte River area. The ancient town is scenic enough to be surrounded by waters. The town is cut into 7 islands by 15 canals which are linked by 45 bridges. It is reputed as “the Venice of the East”.

After Chinese lunch, move on to Zhouzhuang Water Town . Zhouzhuang is known as the No.01 Watertown in China. This over-900 year old watertown has become a trove of oriental culture with its simple and pristine custom, unique folklore, the well preserved ancient residential houses and mesmerising watertown views. You will board a Chinese style gondala to cruise the watetown.

After the Suzhou side trip, you are transferred back to your midtown hotel in Suzhou.

Today you are free on your own till you are transferred to Suzhou Railway Station for your next detination.