Shanghai, China. Free audio guided tour for iPhone and Android: Free Introductory Yu Garden Audio Guide

Free Introductory Yu Garden Audio Guide

Shanghai, China Arts, History, Nature Free

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7 tour stops

Starting Point

Learn how Shanghai was once a prosperous market town before the foreigners arrived.

4 min

Paifang Gateway

Learn about the origin of ornate Chinese gateways

1 min

Lishui Road

Right Colours, Wrong Height

2 min

The Pixiu

The dragons with no bottoms!

Yuyuan Bazaar

Ancient market

3 min

Zig Zag Bridge

Chinese ghosts and more

3 min

Yu Gardens Ticket Office

Buy your tickets and head inside

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Newman Tours Tour Guide

Sharing our passion for Chinese history & culture

Newman Tours provides public, private and tailored tours in and around Shanghai, Beijing and Xi’an.

We have been awarded the Tripadvisor Certificate Of Excellence six years in a row.

Our guides speak fluent English and have extensive China experience.

Newman Tours research their walking tours using Chinese and English resources to ensure the best possible content.

We use iPads to enhance our tours with illustrative photos, videos, and interactive games including Chinese Chess and Astrology Readings.

Newman Tours are great fun, and make use of both humour and exciting cultural activities like Water Calligraphy, Chinese Fortune Sticks, and Chopstick Pickpocketing.

To book a tour please click here, call or add our Wechat using this phone number: (0086) 138-1777-0229, or send an email to info@newmantours.com

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Tour Details

Itinerary: 7 stops Duration: 20 min Location: Shanghai, China Language: English Audio: 13 min total Size: 9 Mb Published: 2/22/2019

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Overview

Yu Gardens is one of the most beautiful scholarly gardens in China, but behind its ancient rockeries and wooden halls lurks a tale of corruption, greed, and incredible self-indulgence.

Download this audio guide experience to discover the truth about the man that commissioned Yu Gardens. Go in search of the secret symbols that he left behind, and discover the tragic fate of this most beautiful of gardens once its creator had passed away.

This is our free introductory version of our Yu Garden audio guide, featuring some of the sights leading up to the Yu Garden complex. To gain access to all the content including the Yu Gardens and all the nearby sights, plus bonus material please consider downloading our Full Yu Garden audio guide.