Guangzhou Day Tour- Cantonese Culture and Life Experience

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What You’ll Experience
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8 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
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Chinese, English, Cantonese
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Explore Guangzhou's vibrant culture and history on this private day tour. Experience Cantonese life with dim sum breakfast, visit bustling markets, historic temples, and more iconic sites.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Visit highlights of Guangzhou including Have dim sum for breakfast in the morning,Shangxia jiu shopping street, Qing ping market, Hualin temple,Chen clan Academy,Shamian island


with this private Guangzhou day tour.You will be picked up and dropped off from your Guangzhou hotel.


What You Get

In-vehicle air conditioning
Air-conditioned vehicle
Breakfast
The private car & tour guide & entrance tickets
The lunch

Good To Know

  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available

What You’ll Experience

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Guangzhou Restaurant

Your driver and guide will pick up you from your hotel at 9:00am and transfer to Gaungzhou Restaurant to have a Dim sum breafast. You know the Dim sum means 'touch your heart with as many as 150 items on a restaurant menu, and 2, 000 in the entire range, it is a challenge to not find something you love. It is the traditional Cantonese breakfast, one of the important part to know about the Cantonese culture.
50 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
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Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street

After the breakfast, we will head to Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street which is one of the three most bustling commercial centers in Guangzhou. Why the street gets this name? That’s because this shopping area is situated among Shangjiu Road, Xiajiu Road and No. 10 Road. The length of this street is more than 1,240 meters (1,353 yd). This pedestrian street is characterized by various stores with cheap clothes and restaurants with delicious foods. These stores and restaurants are in traditional Guangzhou folk residence style, which are worthy of your attention as well.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
3

Qingping Medicine Market

After the Shangxiajiu street, we will Transfer Qingping market which is Located at the cross interchange between Qingping Street and Tiyun Street along the Pearl River, Qingping Market in Guangzhou is a composite market selling agricultural complementary products as well as Chinese herbal medicines. Covering an area of 11,200 square meters (120,000 square feet) and possessing over 1,200 booths, it is a market of a large-scale and wide variety. More than 600 varieties of meat, eggs and vegetables, seafood, Chinese herbal medicines, dried fruits, flowers, birds and fishes, are sold. Government officials of over 40 countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and other countries used to visit it. They all considered the visit as a great pleasure! Here, you can buy a variety of agricultural sideline products, feel the warm local life and experience the civilized ancient trading ways.
40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
4

Hualin Temple

And then Transfer toHualin Temple (Hualin Si) which is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. It is an ancient temple with about 1400 years ago. The temple was constructed in the Southern Dynasties (420-581 AD). In the year 1654 the temple was expanded and renamed Hualin Temple. It was then one of the five largest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, with a large team of monks. The Five-Hundred-Arhat Hall was built in the last year of Emperor Daoguang (1821-1861). The statues of the Arhats are lifelike, in different postures and moods. There is also a statue of Marco Polo, the Italian explorer who came to China in the thirteenth century. The King Asoka Pagoda sits in the middle of the hall.
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
5

Chen Clan Ancestral Hall

Finally we will Transfer to Chen Clan Academy or Chen's Lineage Hall which was a place both for offering up sacrifices to ancestors and for study. Now it serves as Guangdong Museum of Folk Arts and Crafts to show the most characteristic Guangdong architecture.
40 minutesAdmission Ticket Included
6

Shamian Island

At the end we will takes you to Shamian which is an elliptic sandbar in the Liwan District of Guangzhou City. It has great historic significance. From the Song and the Qing Dynasty, it served as an important port for Guangzhou's foreign trade. It became a strategic point for city defense during the second Opium Wars (1856-1860), there are 150 western building on the island with church green way, bars and some good restaurants, it is one of the great place for people to have fun.
40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

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We pick up from all hotels in central Guangzhou

Cancellation Policy

All bookings are final. Once the host confirms the experience, cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.

from  $478.18 
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Please note: The price varies based on group size. The time is in China Standard Time.
All bookings are final. Cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.
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