Day 1: Depart from the downtown of Shanghai at 8:00 a.m. and visit Shanghai Yacht Club & Resort to feel the fun of water sports. After lunch, visit Five-Stars Park: Shanghai Grand View Garden and learn about life of characters in the famous Chinese fiction, “Dream of the Red Chamber”. Stay in Jingui Island Resorts at night.

Day 2: Visit Jingui Island after breakfast and have lunch there. Go to Jinze Ancient Town in the afternoon and visit the 6 temples, 1 pagoda, 13 pavilions and 42 bridges in the ancient town. Later, visit the sightseeing path beside the Dianshan Lake and go back to the downtown of Shanghai.

Jinze Ancient Town

Jinze is an ancient town famous for bridges. It is renowned as the “hometown of bridges in areas southern to the Yangtze River”. It is a town full of rivers and stone bridges. On a 350 meter’s long river nearby the Xiatang Street, visitors would see five ancient bridges of Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Apart from rivers and bridges, Jinze Ancient Town also has many temples. Many temples were connected to bridges. There were several temples and nunneries in the town until the period of Republic of China. As time goes by, a lot of temples connected to bridges no longer exist, but we still can see a lot of couplets inscribed on the bridges for conveying Buddhist doctrines. We can still find traces of temples and nunneries beside several bridges, such as Xuantong Nunnery beside Tahui Bridge, Guan Yu Temple beside Linlao Bridge, Zongguan Temple beside Fangsheng Bridge, Master Temple beside Ruyi Bridge, Heavenly King Temple beside Tianwangge Bridge and the famous Yihao Buddhist Temple at the entrance of Puji Bridge.