Chinese new year, the most important festival for chinese. Many staff will have 7 days vacation, which can make good use of these day to travel and have relax. Most customers from Synotrip contact me whether to be their tour guide and interpreter during the new year .I was born in Guangzhou ,my hometown is Guangzhou, I know the culture of Guangzhou and Guangdong the best, that's why so many clients choose me to their interpreter.

One of clients contact me from Synotrip, now we become friends. He is obsess with chinese martial art and Bruce Lee, so he decide to come to China to follow the step of martial idol. 

He ask me to plan a “discovery of martial art” trip for him. No doubt that Foshan, which is renowned for its martial art form, is the best place to him. In fact, the city of Foshan can be called the birth place and home town of this particular martial art form. The notable celebrity are Ip Man, Bruce Lee, and Wang Fei Hong who is a legendary martial art master and doctor and seldom foreigner know him.

We plan to visit Ip Man memory hall in Ancestral Temple first, after that, go to Bruce Lee ancestor house. Actually, we can go Ancestral Temple by metro from Guangzhou. There is a Guangfo line connected Guangzhou and Foshan, which it is more convenience for the people of two city. But considering the distance from Guangzhou East to Foshan, tight schedule, and the place of Bruce Lee ancestor house is a remote village hard to get there by public transportation, we decided to rent a car for traveling.

My friend arrived at about 9:30 am at Guangzhou East station,and after picking him up we headed to Ancestral Temple. The Foshan Ancestral Temple is commonly called Zumiao. It is a Daoist temple, museum, and exhibition center. The architecture, decor and articles on view in Foshan Ancestral Temple are remarkably refined, and are part of the unique historical heritage of Foshan. 

Because my friend is a martial art fans, so we directly to the Ip Man memory hall.Ip man, a man dedicated to a Wing Chun, is a famous Chinese martial art master, had been a master of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee learn Wing Chun and develop it in his Jeet Kune Do. In the museum, you can see a likeness of Ip Man, martial arts training equipment, and a plaque with information about him.

There is another memory hall for famous legendary martial artist and doctor named Wang Fei Hong. In this place,we also see a chinese traditional customs performance ---lion dance.

We are so deep addicted to enjoying the time in the Ip Man hall and lion dance without noticing that it comes to the afternoon. We need to head to next place - Bruce Lee Ancestor House, which it take one hour to arrive from temple.

Bruce Lee who is considered by many as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century, and an important cultural icon. He used Wing Chun, as his base, learned from the influences of other martial arts, and later created his own martial art philosophy — Jeet Kune Do.

The Bruce Lee Ancestral House located in Jun'an Town is another site for Bruce Lee fans to visit.Built by his grandfather, Lee came back to the house once and lived in the house for only a few days. Even though we only just saw the furniture and the introduction of him and his family, we still felt exciting stand a place which Bruce had been lived.

We spent a great day to feel the martial art culture and gorgeous historical building in Foshan. My friend is pretty good impressed and said that he must would share this experience to his martial art friend when he go back to UK.

Foshan is the manufacture basement for Furniture, Building Material and Lighting. Has professional wholesale market for different products, all market are not far away from each other, if you wanna have a roughly idea about the market before you go into detail purchase, one day tour can be helpful to you.

Our company provide you professional one day tour service in Foshan.

Here is the suggested one day tour plan.

1, 9:00am
Pick you up in your hotel at 8:30am with a private car.
Market open at 9:00am, we can arrive the market  about 10:00am, depending on where is your hotel.

2, 10:00am
Arrive Lecong Furniture market street.
Lecong furniture market is a road which is over 5,000km, with over 30 furniture wholesale building, with different level, for example Luvor is high end building with most variety of choice and design. You can find home furniture (morden, classicla, new classical, American coutry style, French style etc.), office furniture, hotel furniture, sanitary ware, lighting, home decoration items inside.
We can start from Luvor.

3,  11:30am
Arrive Kitchen/waredrobe and Lighting market.
Kitchen and lighting market is on the same road of furniture street. 3 minutes by car from the Furniture market. It's two building, one building with three floor for kitchen, one building with three floor for lighting, it's the biggest professional market for kitchen/waredrobe and lighting.


4, 1:00pm
Lunch.
There is a food street behind of the kitchen/waredrobe and lighting market. With variety style of food, western style, China style (Local cantoness food, spicy food etc.)
Average cost is 8USD - 20USD per person.

5, 2pm
IFEM
IFEM is the biggest complex building for furniture, building material and lighting in Foshan also in China, but still new not so busy untill now. (2015.10)
Around 10 minutes from the food street.

6, 3pm
Zhie ye ceramic wholesale market.
This market is middium to low level market for ceramic tiles and sanitary ware. Just behind IFEM.

7，4pm
China ceramic city
China ceramic city is the midium to high level ceramic tiles and sanitary ware wholesale market, including almost all of the famous international brand also China brand.
It's around 5 minutes from zhiye ceramic wholesale market.

8, 5pm
Huayi building decoration material wholesale market.
Huayi building decoration material wholesale market including all materials related to building decoration, like window, door, wooden floor, sanitary ware, kitchen, waredrobe, lighting, ceiling, wall paper etc.

9, 6:00pm
Finish one day tour, send you back hotel or other relevant place accorording to your requirement.

Charge:
150 USD per day for the one day tour guide+Driver， 9hours per day.
No other extra cost.
 

Hello, there, this is Albert who based in Guangzhou. I am a native and have been a tour guide and interpreter for more than 4 years, if you come to China , I deficinately can help you,the itinerary maybe like this:

Day 1,Guangzhou Baiyun mountain in the morning, after lunch go to Shangxiajiu street for shopping or visit the Muslim temple or other temples, around 6pm to dinner, after dinner go to the night cruise nearby Canton tower,which has the amazing view you will ever see.

Day 2 can choose go to region where far away from downtown or nearby city center, we can discuss in day one, Nansha district of GZ there are sunflower garden, goddess temple, and etc…Sunflower garden is famous throughout the entire Guangdong province,people are willing bare the long distance journey to experience the amazing floewr garden.
Wine, beer or specialty sampling we can try. After 6 pm ,we can go to some bar to try the local beers or cocktails, if you have interest. At midnight we even can enjoy the China nightclubs where hasve many chinese young pretties,and I am sure you will love it.

Day 3 we can go to the nearby cities,like Foshan,Dongguang,Zhonfshan.Zhuhai.most factories are situated in Dongguan city,therefore if you want to source some products,there will be a good place for you;likewise, Foshan is famous by its furniture manufactories.during the trip perhaps you can see some tables or beds which are your type. In my perspective,we go to other cities, the transportation should br TAXI or train. TAXi is convenient but a little bit expensive and you need to pay the toll as well.

Day 4, If you want to see the southern China sea, you can go to Zhuhai or back to GZ,or even go to Hongkong.If not ,continued to discover this beautiful area full of passion-driven winegrowers.
  Visit the traditional local farm land and the cellars, where hundreds of wooden barrels are lined up. During this visit, you will improve your regarding of chinese farmers.

A stroll into the past: Enjoy a nice walk in Foshan and discover this City of Art and History,  In the company of your local expert, visit the charming heart of the city with its historical half-timbered houses and private mansions.  explore one of the underground caves that was dug from the 10th-12th century, in order to extract the famous stone used to build all the monuments of the region. Before saying goodbye, share an aperitif made of local products
7.00 pm:  Back to the hotel in Tours.

Day3, if you choose to Foshan, the schedule is like this :

Last but not the least,

Tailor-made trip of course can be offered,you can tell me what is your favourite place and food and etc...
I could give you some suggestions about hotel conditions, locations, services, whether the staff speak English when you choose a hotel.

- I can pick you up at the Airport or Train Station so you wont feel nervous if this is your first time to Guangzhou and dont know much about Chinese language.

- If you need to book train/flight tickets i might can help you too.

- I could be your shopping assistant or assistant of living in Guangzhou, such as Guangzhou local food, supermarket, open markets, electrical appliances, where to go for nightlifes, theaters or so. Looking forward to meeting you.