Private Leisure Day Tour in Suzhou
Suzhou, China
Trip Type: Private Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
Featuring beautiful landscapes and elegant gardens, Suzhou offers great relaxation and clears your mind with its special charm. This tour is customized to provide you with leisure as well as fun. You will take a boat tour along the Grand Canal, visit Panmen Gate, take a rickshaw tour around Pingjiang Old Street and enjoy a Suzhou Pingtan(Suzhou ballad singing and story-telling) .
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Featuring beautiful landscapes and elegant gardens, Suzhou offers great relaxation and clears your mind with its special charm. This tour is customized to provide you with leisure as well as fun. You will take a boat tour along the Grand Canal, visit Panmen Gate, take a rickshaw tour around Pingjiang Old Street and enjoy a Suzhou Pingtan(Suzhou ballad singing and story-telling) .
Your tour guide will pick you up at your hotel in Suzhou at 9:00am. On this tour, you will start experiencing Suzhou by waterway. Relax yourself in the vintage hand-operated wooden boat and it will cruise with you along the Grand Canal, one of the 3 greatest projects in ancient China. Then go on to visit another historical landmark in Suzhou, Panmen Gate. The grand gate is part of the ancient city wall (built in 514 B.C.). Stand on top of the gate tower, you’ll feast the enchanting view of the whole old town of Suzhou.
To have a better look at Suzhou, you’ll go on with a rickshaw tour around Pingjiang Old Street where the old lifestyle and everyday elements are kept to the utmost. To the leisurely pace of the rickshaw you’ll go past the vegetable market, the unpolished streets and traditional residents as well as the simple happy locals who enjoy every minute home. End today’s tour with an amazing spell of enjoying Suzhou Pingtan (Suzhou ballad singing and story-telling) while sipping savory Chinese tea at the tea house. The performers, dressed in traditional costumes, would sing out the legends in beautiful gentle Suzhou dialect and to the elegant rhythm of traditional musical instrument. You can never find more splendid melody elsewhere!
Your tour guide will pick you up at your hotel in Suzhou at 9:00am. On this tour, you will start experiencing Suzhou by waterway. Relax yourself in the vintage hand-operated wooden boat and it will cruise with you along the Grand Canal, one of the 3 greatest projects in ancient China. Then go on to visit another historical landmark in Suzhou, Panmen Gate. The grand gate is part of the ancient city wall (built in 514 B.C.). Stand on top of the gate tower, you’ll feast the enchanting view of the whole old town of Suzhou.
To have a better look at Suzhou, you’ll go on with a rickshaw tour around Pingjiang Old Street where the old lifestyle and everyday elements are kept to the utmost. To the leisurely pace of the rickshaw you’ll go past the vegetable market, the unpolished streets and traditional residents as well as the simple happy locals who enjoy every minute home. End today’s tour with an amazing spell of enjoying Suzhou Pingtan (Suzhou ballad singing and story-telling) while sipping savory Chinese tea at the tea house. The performers, dressed in traditional costumes, would sing out the legends in beautiful gentle Suzhou dialect and to the elegant rhythm of traditional musical instrument. You can never find more splendid melody elsewhere!
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