day one Arrive at the specatacular Grand Hyatt Hotel . Last century considered to be the most Western of Chinese cities, Shanghai, should perhaps now be thought of as its most futuristic. After dining at one of Shanghai's chic new restaurants, we will visit its modernistic Opera House to enjoy the marvellous stunts of an Acrobatic Show. ( Grand Hyatt Hotel - Grand Bund View Room) (B, L, D)   day two A day trip takes us to Suzhou, a port on China's Grand Canal. Silk manufacture in the fourteenth century spawned many fortunes here, and with them the advent of a famously libertine sub-culture. Its legacy is Suzhou's elegant private gardens whose tall white perimeter walls might once have blushed at their owners' hedonism. In the afternoon, we'll stop at Suzhou's Embroidery Institute to look around its museum and to watch the silk-embroidering process; a craft that is still very much alive in this home town of silk. We'll return to Shanghai for a farewell dinner at our favourite restaurant. day three Our tour begins at Shanghai's Art Museum. Its well-conceived displays elucidate all aspects of Chinese art from ceramics to jades to furniture to seals to paintings. For lunch we will travel to the French concession, whose poplar-lined boulevards add a French panache to this "Paris of the Orient". Remaining in this historic quarter we will visit one of Shanghai's quaint outdoor markets. Here you will be able to refine your by now well-developed bargaining skills. (Visitors not going to Suzhou will be interested to visit the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai's historic Chinatown). In the early evening we will return to your spectacular hotel to get ready for tonight's fabulous dinner. Please note that B, L, D denotes Breakfast, Lunch Dinner. City tours are done on a private basis only. Visitors interested in a group tour of China, should view our monthly Imperial Tour itinerary.