A city’s landmark isn’t necessarily a high building, however it should carry on the city’s history and culture, or features its urban development as well. It determines the city’s character and dominates people’s psyche. It helps us better understand the city So what are Hangzhou’s top iconic landmarks? Hangzhou is one of the eight great…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Hangzhou is a garden city with a slew of gardens circling the West Lake. Most of the gardens around the lake are free of charge except one garden called “Guozhuang Garden” (郭庄). Guozhuang Garden is the only paid attraction along the West Lake. Guozhuang Garden (郭庄) is one of the most…
The Grand Canal Hangzhou is the final section of the Grand Canal ( China ), also known as Beijing-Hangzhou (Jinghang) Grand Canal. It is oft-lauded as the earliest and longest artificial waterway in the world starting from Beijing in the north and ending at Hangzhou in the south for a total length of 1776 km….
Are you going to visit Yellow Dragon Cave during your Hangzhou tour. There are two famous attractions in China in the same name of “Yellow Dragon Cave”. One is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province; the other in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. The Yellow Dragon Cave in Zhangjiajie is a cave as its name suggests, a karst cave…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? If you would like to pamper yourself in a green and beautiful environment with singing birds and murmuring springs, come to Hupao Spring ( or Dreaming of Tiger Spring at Hupao Valley). “Hupao Spring” literally means Tiger Running Spring, Tiger Digging Spring, or simply named Tiger Spring. The legend has it that here…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? If you are a bar or pub lover, Hangzhou will not let you down. Just like each major city has its own unique streets of pub, as a world famous leisure city, Hangzhou is not lagged behind in this regard. Among the numerous bar and pub streets in Hangzhou, Nanshan Lu…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Why not try a bike tour around the West Lake in Hangzhou? At the time of my writing, Hangzhou has the largest bicycle sharing system in the world with 2177 bike docking stations ( bike outlets, kiosks, share stations or whatever you name them) and 50,000 bikes. This government-run bike rental plan is to…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Hangzhou is inscribed on the list of World Cultural Heritage for its picturesque West Lake Scenic Area, which has greatly boosted the local tourism. The most used cliche describing Hangzhou is “Hangzhou is a paradise on earth”. “Hangzhou is beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world” is another often quoted saying by the…