Take in the highlights of beautiful Hangzhou on a private guided full-day tour from Shanghai. After hotel pickup and transfer by high-speed train (extra fee) to Hangzhou, explore West Lake, enjoy a boat cruise, savour lunch, and visit Faxi Temple. Afterwards, learn about tea culture at Longjing village before returning to Shanghai.

Begin your day with a hotel pickup and transfer to the Hongqiao Railway Station metro station. Take a bullet train to Hangzhou and experience train speeds of up to 300 kilometres 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.

Then, be taken to experience the wonderful cuisine of Hangzhou at a local restaurant. After lunch, visit Faxi temple, a well-known Temple dating back to the Jin Dynasty. See its famous wooden Buddha.

Here, 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, take the bullet train back to Shanghai and be sent back to your hotel.