How to plan China day tours in Shanghai may be a complicated question. Perfect itinerary takes in Shanghai's top attractions -- the best of East and West, past, present, and future -- including a world-class museum; China's number-one shopping street; Shanghai's most famous colonial landmark, the Bund; one of the world's tallest buildings in Pudong; and a classical Chinese garden and temple complex. All of these landmarks can be traced in a loop around Puxi (west of the Huangpu River), with a quick detour into Pudong.



Shanghai day trips starts with Shanghai Museum. The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. Rebuilt at its current location in 1996, it is considered one of China's first world-class modern museums. You also can wander the People's Square. Then go to the Nanjing Road for shopping, which is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the world's busiest shopping streets. It is now one of the hottest tourist destinations to most domestic travelers, who are often the target customers of the shops, so the prices are not high, but usually not reasonable. However, it is not always the case in big department stores. In the afternoon, we head to the Bund, which is the pride of Shanghai peoople. The Bund, also called the Zhongshan Road, is a famous waterfront and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai for hundreds of years. It is worth a visit to see the florid night view of the Bund. Under the tenet of keeping harmony and unity, the use of period lamp-posts is in keeping with the aesthetic feeling of the building structures.

After visiting the Bund, half of the tour is passed. Next we will visit Jin Mao Tower or Shanghai World Financial Center. The architecturally perfect Jin Mao Tower with its 88th-floor observatory is one of my favorite buildings to take visitors for a 360-degree view of Shanghai, but it was recently eclipsed in height by the neighboring Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC). SWFC's vertiginous 100th-floor all-glass observation deck is stunning, but it's not for the faint-hearted. At last, we visit the classical Chinese garden and temple complex-Yu Garden, which is billed as the most complete Chinese classical garden in urban Shanghai. One day Shanghai trip of Classic China travel ends here.