Shanghai Muslim Private Day Tour to Zhujiajiao Water Town & Huangpu River Cruise

Located in the suburb of Shanghai, Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town well-known throughout China, with a history of more than 1700 years. Endowed with another elegant name Pearl Stream, Zhujiajiao is the best-preserved among the four ancient towns in Shanghai. Zhujiajiao is connected by 36 delicate bridges in different shapes and styles, from wooden to stone to marble. Fangsheng Bridge is the longest, largest and tallest stone bridge. Lang Bridge, also named Huimin Bridge, is the only wooden bridge and the most featured span in this town. The North Street is filled with representative ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Kezhi Garden features beautiful sightseeing and quiet and secluded surroundings. In the artificial hill area there is a magnificent five-story building, on the top of which stands a diametric pavilion named Moon View Pavilion. Old historical buildings such as rice shops, banks, spice stores and even a Qing dynasty post office can still be found.

Chenghuangmiao is a nice place built in typical Chinese architecture style with lots of shops, bars and restaurants.

Located at Xiaotaoyuan Street in southern Shanghai, the Xiaotaoyan Mosque, also called the Xicheng Mosque, is one of the famous mosques in Shanghai. Shanghai Xiaotaoyuan Mosque was established in 1917 and rebuilt in 1925. Shanghai Xiaotaoyuan Mosque features the Islamic architectural style. Inside the gate there is a rectangular courtyard. On the west side of the hall stands the great prayer hall of 500 square meters, which can hold 200 prayers. The prayer hall has two storeys. In its center there is a vault dome, with minaret on the top. A three-storied hall building stands on the eastern side of the courtyard, and there is a library and a reading room on the second and the third floor respectively, and a sermon room on the first floor. There are the Imams’ rooms, reception room on the southern side of the courtyard.

The Bund refers to Shanghai's famous waterfront stretching for 1.6km (1 mile) along the west shore of the Huangpu River. Once a muddy towpath for boats along the river, the Bund was where the foreign powers that entered Shanghai after the Opium War of 1842 erected their distinct Western-style banks and trading houses. From here, Shanghai grew into Asia's leading city in the 1920s and 1930s, a cosmopolitan and thriving commercial and financial center. Many of the awesome colonial structures you see today date from that prosperous time and have become an indelible part of Shanghai's cityscape. The colonial-era buildings that highlight the Bund include the former British Consulate, Customs House, former HSBC Building (the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), former Shanghai Club (now the Waldorf Astoria Hotel), and the Peace Hotel.

Huangpu River is a 113 kilometers long river flowing through Shanghai. It is the last significant tributary of the Yangtze before it empties into the East China Sea. Huangpu River is Shanghai's shipping artery both to the East China Sea and to the mouth of the Yangtze River, which the Huangpu joins 29km (18 miles) north of downtown Shanghai. It has also become a demarcating line between two Shanghais, east and west, past and future. On its western shore, the colonial landmarks of the Bund serve as a reminder of Shanghai's 19th-century struggle to reclaim a waterfront from the bogs of Huangpu River; on the eastern shore, the steel-and-glass skyscrapers of the Pudong New Area point to a burgeoning financial empire of the future. Besides offering a privileged view of the bridges that span the Huangpu River, the cruise boats also offer an excellent view of the famous colonial-era buildings that make up the Bund.

The 3.4-mile-long Nanjing Road starts at the Bund in the east and it is the main shopping street of Shanghai and one of the busiest shopping streets in the world. As a result of the Opium War (1839-1842), Shanghai was forced to open to the West as a port. Importing large quantities of foreign goods, Nanjing Road became the earliest shopping street in Shanghai. Over time, Nanjing Road has been restructured, undergoing significant change. For shopping convenience, its eastern end has an all-weather pedestrian arcade. Today over 600 businesses on Nanjing road offer countless famous brands, superior quality, and new fashions. KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and other world-famous food vendors line both sides of the street. Upscale stores include Tiffany, Mont Blanc, and Dunhill.