Our local English-speaking guide and skilled driver will pick you up at your Shanghai hotel at around 8:30am (or your convenient time) and make a side trip to Tongli Water Village, a small village over 1,000 years of history. Ramble around the village is nice to immerse in the local tranquil old ambience. In the water town, you can flexibly tour it in your own way and cover the spots that interest you. The main draws of the town are as follow.

Jiayin Hall is a good example of the traditional heritage with its intricate carvings collection and the heavy Chinese connotations behind them.

The bridge is also what makes the water town famous for. Three bridges out of the village 49 bridges, respectively named Taiping (peace), Jili (luck) and Changqing (celebration) have well borne the locals' kind wish for peace, fortune, happiness and heath whenever walking over them.

Tuisi Garden, built between 1885 and 1887, is also nice for stroll and discovering the harmony thought of the designer in the layout of pavilions, terraces, halls, rockeries and ponds.

The most complete sexual history can be viewed in the Sexual Cultural Museum. Its large collection concerning the sexual culture like the sculptures, toys, paintings will unveil you the over 6,000 year of rich human sexuality underneath the conservative nation.

Conclude the half day water town tour by transferring back to your Shanghai hotel or getting off at your desired spot in city center.