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China optional tours: HANGZHOU |
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Hangzhou optional tours
1. Hangzhou Landscape (1 Day): Cruise tour on West Lake, Temple of the Soul’s Retreat, The Pagoda of Six Harmonies, General Yue Fei’s Tomb, Mei Jia Wu Tea Garden (Hotel pick-up at 8:30 am and back to hotel before dinner including lunch)
1-1. Xixi National Wetland 1 Day
2. Classic Hangzhou (1.5 Day): Cruise tour on West Lake, Temple of the Soul’s Retreat, The Pagoda of Six Harmonies, General Yue Fei’s Tomb, Viewing Fish in the Flower Harbor, Hu Qingyu’s Hall (Hotel pick-up on first day at 8:30am and back to hotel after dinner the next day, Including 2 lunches)
3. Ancient Water Towns (1 Day): Hotel pick-up at 8:30 am and back to hotel before dinner, including lunch, but excluding cruising and boat rental (Capacity for 6 persons in each boat, at RMB 80 Yuan per person)
A：Hangzhou – Wuzhen (or Xitang) - Hangzhou
B：Hangzhou – Wuzhen (or Xitang) - Shanghai
4. The show--The Romance of the Song Dynasty
* 1000-Island(1 Day): Central Lake District-Mei Peak Island, Five-Dragon Island, Dragon Mountain Island and Warm Island.
* Yiwu Optional Tour Service
Price List (in RMB totally) |
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1P |
2P |
3P |
4P |
5P |
6P |
7P |
| 1.Hangzhou Landscape 1 Day |
1290 |
1790 |
2080 |
2320 |
2560 |
2830 |
3060 |
| 2.Classic Hangzhou 1.5 Day |
2170 |
2420 |
2820 |
3290 |
3530 |
3800 |
3980 |
| 3.Ancient Water Towns 1 Day A |
2170 |
2310 |
2450 |
2780 |
2980 |
3260 |
3520 |
| Ancient Water B |
2570 |
2780 |
2900 |
3150 |
3380 |
3560 |
3710 |
| 4.Airport Transfer |
530 |
600 |
680 |
780 |
830 |
970 |
1020 |
| 5.Station Transfer |
180 |
280 |
340 |
390 |
430 |
480 |
520 |
| 1-1.Xixi National Wetland 1 Day |
1290 |
1620 |
1950 |
2250 |
2530 |
2830 |
2990 |
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HOTEL ACCOMODATION |
(in RMB/per room per night incl.abfs) |
| HOTEL NAME |
LOW SEASON(4-11) |
HIGHT SEASON(12-3) |
AREA |
| ★★★ Lily Hotel |
490 |
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Senic Spot |
| ★★★ Zhongshan Int'l Hotel |
470 |
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City Centre |
| ★★★★ Zhejiang Grand Hotel |
690 |
790 |
| ★★★★★ Zhejiang Int'l Hotel |
760 |
880 |
| ★★★★★ Metropark Hotel |
790 |
960 |
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The above prices are neither referred to the rates during the National Day in October nor the period of West Lake Exposition. The rate of an extra bed is accounted as a half room.
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Hangzhou
The capital of Zhejiang Province, is by the Qiantang River at the southern end of the Grand Canal on the east coast of China. Hangzhou is one of the most beautiful cities in China with its West Lake and almost year-round green surroundings. The city was founded over 2000 years ago. It began to prosper as a trading center after the completion of Grand Canal in 610 A.D. when Emperor Yangdi of the Sui Dynasty extended the construction from Suzhou to Hangzhou. Marco Polo visited this city by the end of the century, and this Venetian explorer admired its beauty and prosperity as “the most beautiful and magnificent city in the world”.
For centuries, this scenic city has been a famous and ideal place to attract crowd of artists and poets coming for seeking inspiration, while wealthy people and retired officials moving here for comfortable life. Additionally, Hangzhou is also popular for its silk worms with products and Tea planting with the famous Longing (Dragon Well) tea, which had made it more attractive to the outside of the world for centuries.
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West Lake
Enclosed by the hills on three sides, the West Lake mirrors the surrounding landscape to form a panorama of great beauty. The West Lake was originally part of the Qitang River until its outlet became silted up. It is now 15 kilometers in circumference with an average depth of 1.8 meters. Luxurious trees and flowers grow around the lake in fresh color year round. It has been a scenic resort since the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.-906 A.D.). The Su and Bai Causeways divide the lake into three parts.
The best way to enjoy the lake is to take a cruise so that you could see the view of the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon closely over the water and tour the scenic sports in a shortcut to Ping Hu Qiu Yue (peaceful lake and autumn moon) at the southeastern end of Gu Shan Hill and Hua Gang Guan Yu (Viewing Fish in the Flower Harbor) on the other side along the lake etc. |
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Lingyin Monastery
The Lingyin Monastery is regarded as one of the four famous Monasteries by the side of West Lake. It is one of the ten well-known Buddhist temples in China with the attraction of a huge gilded camphor wood Buddha at 82 feet high and many bas-relief carvings of Buddha. The temple owned its fame during the period of Empress Wu Ze-tian of Tang Dynasty (684 A.D.-705A.D.). There were many poems related to Lingyin Monastery by famous poets of Tang and Song Dynasty. This monastery is also one of the most popular Buddhist temples in service, attracting thousands of devotional believers of Buddhism coming for pilgrimage on the special occasions each year. |
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Pagoda of Six Harmonies
The Pagoda of Six Harmonies is on Yuelun Hill by the northern bank of the Qiantang River. Constructed in 970 A.D.during Song Dynasty, it is a structure built with both brick and wood. The pagoda is near 60 meters tall with 13 stories on the outside and seven inside. From here you could have a good view of the Qiantang River meandering far into the distance. |
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Water Town of Wuzhen
Wuzhen, a newly opened site to tourists, is an old water town with the distance around 200 kilometers from Shanghai. It is regarded as one of the most beautiful water towns in China. It is a typical water town by the side of the Grand Canal with the water crisscrossing through the entire area. The flat houses, mainly with gray bricks had been built along the river over hundreds of years by successive generations. You will have the chance to take the wooden boat rowing over the water, going zigzag through the small bridges one after another to find the local people playing cards and tasting tea relaxedly in Tea Stand by the side of the water. This small water town is also highlighted by its bazaar where you could find a large selection of silk works and hand made crafts at reasonable prices. It is a great place to wander around by tourists to find the ancient docks, waterside pavilions and corridors stretching for miles, which present a typical and harmonic atmosphere to the water town in South of China.
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As an indoor and panorama style large-scale performance, "The Romance of the Song Dynasty” would be best choice on entertainment. It eulogized the Hangzhou history by the form of singing , dancing and acrobatics etc. |
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Thousand-Island Lake
It is 145 kilometers to Hangzhou, and 128 kilometers to Mt.Huangshan. The water senic area ocupies an area of 573 square kilometers which is 108 times of that of West Lake so that offered long and zigzag lakeshore line, wide lake surface and 1,078 scattered islands to |
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enjoy. All above make up a lake of sweet dream and a clean world of green islands,blue water and golden water. |
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Hangzhou's Tea
Tea is popular everywhere in China, but few places enjoy Hangzhou's reputation for tea - an undefined element that seems to encompass all things related to tea. On the first day of Chinese lunar new year a cup of spring tea is offered to the Goddess of Mercy in wish of yearlong well-being. To confirm marital relations tea is the last betrothal gift to the parents of the would-be bride. As to popular tea culture, nothing is more representative than the teahouses that line West Lake |
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and huddle in the valleys of surrounding hills. Brews of tea are not cheap, but the price of a pot buys hours of lazing around, a favorite activity of locals and visitors as well.
West Lake Dragon Well tea, grown on the hills surrounding the city, is Hangzhou's specialty. From growing it to writing poetry about it, the green tea is consumed in almost everywhere within it. High-grade Dragon Well is expensive - often displayed in luxury shops like jewelry. |
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Xixi National Wetland Park is the first and only national wetland park in China, located at the west part of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, a total of 10.64 square kilometers (26,300 acres). The park is densely crisscrossed with six main watercourses, among which scatter various ponds, lakes and swamps.
XiXi Wetland has a history of more than 1,800 years and an abundant cultural heritage---it’s the original site of Chinese South Opera; it has a traditional Dragon Boat Contest; it contains the vivid life of a water village,featuring silkworm |
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feeding and silk production.
On it, the following scenic spot has been recommanded:
Hazy Fisher Village Is famous for the scenery of willow haze, mist and smoke from kitchen chimneys.
Anchorage Thatching Seems like an island floating on water—it’s the origin of the name “ anchorage”.
Fall Snow Nunnery Gains its reputation from white bulrush flowers, which blossom in winter and dance in the sky, similar to snow in winter.
Deep Pond meeting Can only be reached by boat, and is the site of the annual Dragon Boat Contest.
XiXi Thatching Was once famous collector Fen Mengzhen’s second house in the late Ming Dynasty, recording the artistic life of “ lying on water and tasting tea”.
XiXi Plum Villa Has a taste of eremitic sentiment, because the plum is the symbol of the hermit in Chinese culture.
Plum Bamboo Manor Is concealed in the plum and bamboo bosks, where poets met in the Qing Dynasty.
XiXi Water Attic Is the place for collecting books and reading, with the west part “ Blue Brook Study” and the east part “ Book Possession”. |
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Hangzhou Cuisine
Zhejiang cuisine is one of the eight famous culinary schools in China. Comprising the specialties of Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province ("a land of fish and rice"), the cuisine, not greasy, wins its reputation for freshness, tenderness, softness, and smoothness of its dishes with mellow fragrance. Hangzhou cuisine is the most famous one among the three. It is noted for choice of fine ingredients, elaborate preparation, refreshing taste and varying techniques of cooking, such as sautéing, stewing, and stir-and-deep-frying.
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The typical dishes of the cuisine are: West Lake Fish in Vinegar Gravy, Dongpo Pork, Beggar's Chicken, Longjing Shrimp, Aunt Song's Fish Soup and West Lake Water Shield Soup. Reminiscent of the romantic scenery around Hangzhou, these dishes are delicate, tender, refreshing and crisp. And many famous dishes have interesting stories associated with them. For example, legend has it that a Hangzhou thief invented Beggar’s Chicken. As he had no stove, he wrapped the stolen bird in clay and baked it in a hole in the ground. Another version explains that he was a hungry thief who found a way to cook his bird and keep it and its aroma secret! |
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Yiwu, China paradise of the purchases, is a city of about 1,000,000 people in central Zhejiang Province near the central eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. The city is famous for its small commodity trade and vibrant flea markets and is a regional tourist destination. Although administratively Yiwu is a county-level city, its fame nationally surpasses that of Jinhua, the prefecture-level city of which it is technically under jurisdiction.
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making Yiwu an important local transportation hub. Express trains from Shanghai South Railway Station take less than three hours.Yiwu's business covering mainly as follow:
DIY and gardening marketUmbrellas marketArtificial flowers marketStationery market (ball pens, fountain pens, advertising pens, pencils, erasers, pen boxes, files, and all kinds of stationeries)Sport and other leisure (fishing, music,...) markets Clocks and watches marketEyeglasses and sunglasses marketKitchen and bathroom hardware market (plastic market)Toys marketTissue, cloths marketSocks marketCandles marketCosmetic marketFashion jeweler market (rings, earrings, necklaces, hairpins, bracelets, ankle bracelets, toe rings, tattoos, artificial locks, wigs, all types of ornaments...) Mobile phones accessories market(mobile phones boxes, parts, cordons, ornaments,)Small home appliances / small electronic products market (FM radios, voice recorders, CD/VCD/DVD/MP3 players, earphones, microphones)Bags and leather products market(bags, belts, wallets, purses,)Shoes market |
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