Private Hangzhou Day Tour from Shanghai by Bullet Train
Description
Take in the highlights of beautiful Hangzhou on a private full-day tour from Shanghai. After hotel pickup and transfer by high-speed train to Hangzhou, your private guide takes you to see some city attractions, such as Faxi temple. Moreover, enjoy a tasty lunch at a local restaurant before heading to Longjing village. There, learn about the process of farming and producing dragonwell tea, the region’s most famous product. Finally, enjoy a scenic boat cruise on UNESCO World Heritage-listed West Lake before returning to Shanghai.
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Itinerary
This is a private, full-day trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou. After you are picked up in your hotel lobby in the early morning, you will take a bullet train to Hangzhou. This is the fastest way to Hangzhou and you can experience train speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour.
Your tour begins at one of Hangzhou’s signature sites, the West Lake. Enjoy a lake cruise to see the top ten West Lake scenic views. You will then be taken to experience the wonderful cuisine of Hangzhou at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit Faxi temple, a well-known Temple dating back to the Jin Dynasty. See its famous wooden Buddha. Here, you will see fewer tourists and more locals.
Finally, enjoy a cup of green tea when you visit the famous Longjing village to see wild fields of Longjing tea bushes where the locals produce the world famous green tea- Longjing Tea. In the village, all locals are tea farmers and you will see the entire procedure of making the famous tea and will get the chance to taste the best quality emperor tea.
At the end you will take the bullet train back to Shanghai and you guide will send you back to your hotel
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Your hotel lobby in Shanghai city
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Generally the pick up is 7am in the morning. You may request for late pick up and it should be written in special requirements at the time of booking. The late pick up time will be 8:30am. Please note the tour from door to door is 11 hours. Therefore you will back late if you departure late.
- We will book your train tickets in advance. We automatically book 2nd class train tickets for you unless you require to upgrade your seats at the time of booking. Round trip 2nd class is 28USD, 1st class is 45USD, Business class is 85USD.
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Passport photocopy is required at time of booking for all participants (for your train ticket booking)
Reviews(25)
This was a fantastic trip! Cindy our guide picked us up at our hotel and took us to the train station. At the train station helped us navigate and board the train. She had previously bought the tickets so that part was taken care of. We enjoyed the hour ride. Once we arrive in Hangzhou, we were met by a driver and started our adventure. We first went to a tea plantation. This plantation is university owned and had a lovely display of how tea is dried. We could see the women picking the tea all along the roads. Cindy was quite knowledgeable and did talk to us about the history of the area while we were driving. While at the tea plantation we got to have a tea tasting. This was done in English with us and was very interesting. It was just a private tasting which was nice as there were many Chinese tourists there as well. Next stop was a Buddhist temple. Having the separate driver allowed us to be dropped off close to the entrance, which was great! This temple is quite large and was beautiful to explore. Cindy once again shared her knowledge with us while we walked the grounds. This is an active holy site so many Chinese people are there too. We then drove to the West Lake area. This is a very popular walking place. It’s a very beautiful waterside area. Cindy took us to a hotel where US presidents have stayed and we walked around there. Her knowledge of history was shared again during this time. Lunch was at a delightful restaurant with many food options available. She helped navigate the language barrier to order. Once again the driver let us out very close to the door. After lunch we returned to the train station and did the return trip to the hotel. It was the most enjoyable day!!
This was a terrific day! Cindy is a great guide - Interesting, fun, and different stops on the full day itinerary. Thoroughly enjoyable.
It was a wonderful day, a lot of laughter, good food, and great sight seeing. My tour guide Cindy was a great person to travel with. Communication was easy. She picked me up at my hotel. Everything was done just right - with no time wasted. We went to the West Lake, The West Lake Hotel, Mao Ze Dong's garden where he studied English, then to a temple, a short hike, then to a really delicious country restaurant for lunch. Afterwards we tasted tea at a tea farm. Along the way, I got to see the Bullet Train. Cindy was really open to any sort of questions, and she was just a great companion to travel with. She didn't even lose her cool when my payment system failed initially (when I tried to pay her for the train tickets and a gratuity). She just left. But we got the payment worked out ok at the end. Cindy also did not push for me to give a positive review. But I would 100% recommend this tour with Cindy, and in fact if I'm ever back in China, I would go with Cindy again to see other sites / organized trips - I have the confidence that she could arrange a fabulous trip to your specifications.
We had a great tour experience of full day visit with Lynn whom took care of us and also all the trip details。 Lots of information and Chinese history to have a full picture of the place and singularities. Hightly recommended!!
Thank you Lynn for this amazing trip. We enjoyed a lot the day and all you e xplanations and suggestions.
We had a delightful day tour with Cindy Wang who was very attentive and helpful during our time together. We highly recommend her for the outstanding service that she provided to us. Thank you
I liked the visit, the guide was so helpful, punctual and knowledgeable. The tour was so good especially with the explanation of the guide.
Lynn is a great and very personable tour guide. It feels more visiting some sights with someone you know than with a guide. I really recommend her and the tour. It is great to see west lake and the faxi temple, truly beautiful.
Our guide was very professional and helpful. The pick up and drop off were all on time and smooth. Lunch was delicious!
This was a well spent day in Shanghai and full of fun thanks to our young enthusiastic guide Melissa. Melissa was at the hotel early in hopes of getting an earlier start as it would be busy with the National Holiday in full swing. She gets us to the train station and before we know it have out tickets in hand. My husband is super excited to be traveling 300 km/h on land and Melissa does a good job of dealing with him (like a small child). We enjoyed our train ride and off we go to Hangzhou - it is really beautiful, West Lake boat ride was lovely, but the streets and pathways are very crowded and Melissa watches time so that we have time for each site. We have a wonderful lunch at one of Melissa's favorite restaurants, then off to the next stop. A very nice Temple, the Faxi Temple - one of my favorites because it was a working temple and had a calm quiet vibe. We learn from Melissa that the temple allows visitors to stay which is pretty cool. Best thing - no large tour groups!! Then on we go to the Longjing tea plantation. Such beautiful country sides and interesting to see the farmer's community. Drank some tea, took some pictures and enjoyed the view. Off to a different train station and back to Shanghai. Well done Melissa - we really enjoyed your company and you are a great guide.
