BETA

Amazing Guide. Personalized Service. Great Prices.

Looking for our Jenny’s Shanghai Tours?
Visit www.jennysshanghaitours.com

Shanghai Offbeat Charms and Qibao Tour

Duration: 8 Hours
From: 59 Per Pax

Tour Summary

Typical Start Time: 9:00AM

This 8-hour private tour is perfect if you don’t want the typical Shanghai tour (although our Highlights Tour is far from typical!) or perfect for a second day tour in Shanghai. You’ll start with Qibao Ancient Town. It’s just a metro ride away from central Shanghai. You’ll soak in 1000 years of history with its ancient streets and homes. Qibao is also famous by its diversity of food on Qibao Old Street, which was featured on CCTV’s “A Bite of China”. Here you’ll enjoy a variety of local delicacies. You’ll then discover some unique perspectives of Shanghai’s heritage and daily life along with some bizarre scenes, including Shanghai’s unique park culture and street life, a visit to the Bird and Flower Market and into the communist past with the Propaganda Museum.

Highlights of this tour include:

  • Qibao Ancient Town and Old Street with local delicacies, 
  • People’s Park with Marriage Market (weekends), and street dancing
  • Authentic dumpling lunch, a local specialty
  • Bird and Flower Market
  • Propaganda Museum  

Tour Includes:

  • Awesome, experienced guide
  • Amazing Qibao delicacies and unique Shanghai sites
  • Authentic local lunch
  • Entrance fees
  • Transportation w/optional car and driver​ (see below for details)
  • Guide picks you up and drop you off at starting location

Featured Sites Included:

​Qibao Ancient Town
Ancient town near Shanghai with historic archways and streets, famous dishes.
Marriage Market ​(People's Park)
A Shanghai custom where: parents seek spouses, People's Park, weekends, noon-5 p.m.
Authentic Dumpling Lunch
Traditional meal of xiaolongbao, steamed pork dumplings, bamboo basket, savory broth.
Bird and Flower Market​
Xizang Nan Lu Market with birds, insects, animals, flowers, unique stalls, unsettling conditions.
Propaganda Art Poster Museum
Quirky museum with maoist posters, Cultural Revolution, rare collection, two rooms.

Itinerary Details

This private tour typically starts at 9:30am, but the starting time is flexible. Your guide will pick you up at your hotel or other meeting point to start this 8-hour Qibao and Offbeat Shanghai Tour.

  • First, you’ll head to Qibao Ancient Town. A local saying: If you want to see decades of Shanghai, you should go to visit Pudong area; If you want to see hundreds years of Shanghai, you should go to visit The Bund; If you want to know a thousand years of history of Shanghai, you’d better visit QiBao Antient Town. Here you’ll also explore Qibao Old Street and select from a wide variety of local, famous dishes for lunch. You’ll continue after lunch to explore the historic streets and alleys of this old town.
  • Then, you’ll head to People’s Park or Fuxing Park based on your tour date since our goal is to show a unique side of Shanghai culture and daily life. On weekends, you’ll visit the famous marriage-matching market in People’s Park, where parents and grandparents come to pair off their unwed children or during the week you might see citizens exercising, square dancing, or even singing opera. You can even join them if you like. Weekdays you’ll visit Fuxing Park with its lively people, exercise, playing games. The park is also called French Park.
  • From here it’s a short walk to the bizarre Shanghai Bird and Insect market where you’ll see a wide range of exotic birds and Chinese insects.  It is an ideal place allow you to feel locals daily life and space! The walnut core, the crickets, the cats, the turtles, and the different weird food for those insects, and so many different types of beautiful flowers, it is just right for visit to have some special tour experience.
  • The Propaganda Museum is next where you’ll explore part of China’s history during the 1950’s through the 1980’s. This is the only one of its kind in China, and this shows part of China’s recent hidden history.
  • After the tour is complete, your guide will accompany you back to your hotel.

Send Us an Inquiry

Additional Options for this Tour

This tour comes with several options that can be selected when you book your tour, including:

HuangPu River Cruise

Another option after your tour is to take an amazing river cruise on the HuangPu River. The perfect end to a great tour to see the spectacular views of Shanghai's skyline from both the East and West sides. Tours start every hour during the day and every 15 minutes in the evening and lasts for 1 hour. VIP seats allow you an upper view in front of the boat for guaranteed 360 degree views.

Acrobatic Show

This tour includes the option for a fantastic acrobatic show in the evening after your tour. This is the best show in China with a spectacular environment and features sophisticated athletic performers! ​A must see activity if you have time. Show starts 19:30 and ends at 21:00. Price shown here is for medium seats. ​​