Shanghai Night Bike Tour

Discover the Night Secrets of the Great Chinese Metropolis

Shanghai, a city of stark contrasts where old foreign concessions tucked away under leafy trees are surrounded by a jungle of futuristic ritzy skyscrapers and dazzling lights.

Why not join our 3.5 hour, 18 kilometer long Shanghai Night Bike Tour and discover a wide array of aspects of this vibrant city?

The French Concession; "A Piece of the Roaring 1920s in Shanghai"

We start off at the French concession, an area given to the French after the Opium War up until World War II, when the French Vichy government handed it over to the Japanese. This area once was the most exclusive part of Shanghai. The buildings¡¯ original European architecture has been well preserved over the decades and are in fact protected by the authorities.

The French concession was originally built for the French, but as it expanded it also began to attract foreigners of other nationalities. Many Russian merchants went there after the Russian revolution, and later on Chinese residents started moving, many as a result of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. The reason being that the Japanese dared not attack foreign concessions. At its peak, the Foreign concession had a population of 850,000, that is almost twice the size of Yanji city in the Autonomous Korean Prefecture of China and the roughly the same size of Hamhung, the second largest city in North Korea.

Old City of Shanghai - "The Chinese City"

We will now cycle to the Shanghai's Old Town, called by foreigners based in the foreign concessions back in the days as the Chinese City. Shanghai's Old Town is home to national treasures such as the City God Temple