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Tour Code: COT-S-010-A
Start in: Shanghai
End in: Hongkong
Special Experience: Water tour around Zhouzhuang and Tongli, explore the Hakka earth buildings in Xiamen
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China Southeast Silk and Watertown Tour

          

Trip Highlights

Visit Zhouzhuang, which is through over 900 years old, yet it remains as it was.

Visit Zhouzhuang and walk futher in, then you will come to a archway, the Ancient Memorial Archway.You can see The Quanfu Pagoda on your right side when walking towards the archway.

Visit the Quanfu Temple,which contains 21 gold Buddhas plus one large bronze Buddha measuring over 5m in height.

Visit the Hall of Shen's residence.It is made up of more than 100 rooms and courtyards and was built to be the private residence of a wealthy merchant family.

Visit the Twin Bridge.There seven-storey pagodas were built during the Northern Song dynasty by candidates for the imperial examination who wanted to pay tribute to their teachers.

Visit the Turtle Head Isle which is basically a huge park,covering the northwestern end of the peninsula in the lake.It is capped by a small lighthouse at the western tip,and scattered with tea houses and pavilions,former summerhouses of the wealthy.

Standing on Longguang Pagoda,which is the main spots at the Xihui park and the magnificent symbol of Wuxi, you can not only see the high buildings in the urban area but fields, lake and hills.

The closer you get to the Buddha the more its awe inspiring its massive proportions really are.

Visit Li Garden,which is a splendid place with ponds, a walkway, mini-bridges, mini-pagodas and souvenir stalls dotted here and there, the garden appears full of life and is like a mysterious labyrinth.

Walking by the water,you will find it creates reflections of the town's arched roofs, lofty gables and stone bridges while green willows also line the banks can. This creates a truly poetic atmosphere.

Together wirh the Great Wall, the 2000-year-old and 2000km-long Grand Canal is considered as one of the two wonders of ancient China.

At the southwestern end of the encient city of Suzhou, the Panmen Scenic Zone is famed for three tourist attractions: water and land city gates, Ruiguang Pagoda and Wumen Bridge.

Visit the Lingering Garden,which is separated into the eastern, central, northern and western parts:the northern part, cottages with bamboo fences and idyllic scenes.

Visit the The No.1 Silk Factory, you can see how the silk is processed from the silk worm to the final woven cloth.

Visit the Gold-gilded Sakyamuni, the Chia's largest sitting statue of Buddha at present.

Upon ascending the pagoda, visitors will have a spectacular view of the Qiantang River Bridge spanning the surging tides of the Qiantang River.

Visit Dragon Well Tea Planation. Emperor Qianlong who lived in ancient China, made six trip to the areas south of the Yongtze River, four of which to Dragon Well.

Feilai Peak is so dissimilar from other hills near West Lake that there is no doubt that it truly is a foreign guest to the landscape.

Visit West Lake, the soul of Hangzhou, which is beautiful and elegant.

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