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Four seasons of West Lake  
春Spring
Two causeways of peach flowers and three islands of green willows refle c t clean water. Birds sing happily in the sky to wake up the beauty of the scenery.

夏Summer
Quyuan Garden has got the smell of lotus and wine.
Baochu Pagoda and Leifeng Pagoda are colored by
sunset. Soft wind blows clouds of Wushan Hill to the lakeside restaurants.
秋Autumn
The bell of Nanping Hill can be heard afar. Yanggong Causeway sees the flying wild gooses in the west. Lonely boat and remained lotus leaves are floating in the water. In the sky high above, the clear moon decorates the center of the lake.
冬Winter
No wave but the mid-lake.Xiaoyinzhou Island can be seen. Cold wind and snow may meet at the Broken Bride. The willows wait for the day of spring.
Hangzhou Zhijiang National Tourist Resort [top]

Zhijiang National Tourist Resort is one of 12 national tourist resorts approved by State Council. The Resort is close to Qiantang River in the south and Wuyun Hill in the north. Total area is 9.88 km2. Bamboos and trees form the peace and the elegance of the Resort. Watching from the top of the hill, you may see the beauty of West Lake and the splendor of Qiantang River. Following the river, you can see the special Qiantang Wave. Going against the river, you may see the view of “two-river and onelake”. It is the best joint part of West Lake and “two-river and onelake” scenery areas. Presently, Song Dynasty Town, World of Future and West Lake Golf Court have been constructed and open to the public.

●Song Dynasty Town

Song Dynast y Town Tourist Scenery Area relies on Wuyun Hill in the north and close to Qiantang River in the south. The land area is 300 mu. It is the largest Song Culture Theme Park and the first theme park in Hangzhou to show the culture of two Song dynasties. The construction of the scenic area follows up the painting “At River on Clear & Bright” of the excellent painter Zhang Zeduan of Song Dynasty. It reproduces the splendid view of Song Dynasty by the construction way of Song Dynasty. It creates a space with taste, melody, rhythm and history.

Song Dynasty Town Thousand- Year Feeling is a classic heroic living theatre invested a lot by Song Dynasty Town. Basing on Wu Yue culture of thousand years, combining the world culture styles, using the form of most wonderful Las Vegas show and Moulin Rouge, the traditional culture is packaged. It is also a symbol performance of night tour in Hangzhou. 148 Zhijiang Road Y5,308,504 10:00-21:30 87313101 80 RMB(Including performace ticket)

●World of Future Amusement Park

This is an AAAA scenery area and so far the largest outdoor complex new generation theme park in Asia. The land area is 320,000 m2. The Park consists of six blocks, i.e. “Happy Land”, “Romantic Competition”, “Splendid Ceremony ”,“ Flowe r S had ow Causeway ”, “Colorful Plaza” and “ Dream Center ”. Among which, Dream Center is a large indoor amusement place with a construction area of 18,000 m2 . It is the cream of whole “World of
Future”.
This year, the Park is packaged newly. The night tour project “World Leisure Without Night City” is presented. Among which, the most outstanding night tour activities are large science fiction performance “Dreamy Future” and water amusement activity “World of Huahua”.
186 Zhijiang Road Y5,308,504
8:00-17:00 87096688 80 RMB

Xi'xi National Wetland Park [top]

Xi'xi National Wetland Park

●Xixi National Wetland park is located in the west of the city, with a distance to West Lake of 5 km only. The land area is about 10 km2. The opened first stage occupies about 3.2 km2. Presently, this is the only and the first national wetland park that integrates city wetland, farming wetland and culture wetland.

●About 70% of the Park is water area such as rivers, harbors, pools, lakes and wetlands. It has rather unique water plants, land plants and wild animals. Bulrushes, water chestnuts, duckweeds and lotuses are growing in the water. On the banks, there are plums, persimmons, camphor trees and bamboos. In the streams, there are carps, grass fish, shrimps and yellow eels. In the sky, there are rare birds such as aigrets, green birds, mallard ducks and silver chickens. You can see here unique wetland zoological view.

●From ancient times, Xixi is a good reclusion place. Su Dongpo, Mi Fu, Tang Bohu, Feng Mengzhen, Hong Sheng, Li E, Yu Dafu and Xu Zhimo had left us many poems, paintings and articles. Emperor Song Gao Zong, Kang Xi and Qian Long had visit Xixi and left poems. Shi Nai’an wrote the wellknown work the Legend of Shuihu using Xixi as the background.

●The exhibition houses of aborigines’ life, such as “Xixi Family” and “the Story of Mulberry, Silkworm, Silk and Fiber”, recur the family life and labor scenery of Xixi aborigines. It can make more people know and understand the unique folk custom of Xixi.

West Lake International Golf Countryside Club

●West Lake International Golf Countryside Club is the first golf cour t of 36 -hole international standard in Zhejiang province. The land area is 2,600,000 m2. It is designed by the well-known Americanplayer and court designer Mr. Nicolas. Presently, the fi rst stage of 18-hole standard court , 365 . 76m ( 400 yard ) double direction golf practice cour t, Guoling T-bar prac tice court , thefirst chamber and concerned accessory facilities are open to the public. The court is managed and operated according to international standard club membership system. There are individual membership and group membership. 200 Zhijiang Road Bus 308,Y5 87310437 680RMB(Mon.- Fri.);880yuan RMB(Sat.&Sun.)

Eight Scenes of Xi’xi Elegant Souls Everywhere

●Misty Fishing Village Borrow poetical elements from Fishing village covered by autumn snow written by an ancient poet, built combining with characters of water country folk housing. The place has three kinds of charms derived from “mist”: mist of willows, mist of clouds, mist of chimney smokes, people here are sharing the same living space with the mists, a real immortal place.
Kind reminder: For necessary ecological protection, the number of visitors to the park is limited to 3,000 persons per day. The entrance tickets can be booked in advance. Internet reservation: www.xixiwetland.com.cn
Extended Part of Tianmushan Road, Hangzhou 310、Y5、13 88106789 8:30~16:30
40RMB(free of charge on Mondays)Boat:Battery Boat 40RMB, Manual Boat 100RMB/hour

●Autumn Snow Hut Built in the beginning year of Song Dynasty, Chunxi Period, was located on a lonely island, to its southeast there is a boundless reed beach, a vast misty whiteness. Chen Jiru, a calligrapher of Ming Dynasty, thought out a name from the scene “Fishing boat rowing veiled by autumn snow curtain”, from then on it was named as “Autumn Snow Hut”.

●Xi’xi Water Pavilion They are buildings for literators, an ideal place for their concealing themselves to study hard and store books.

●Plum& Bamboo Village Built by Zhang Cibai, a literator of Qing Dynasty. Three main buildings of this villa now are “Plum& Bamboo Cottage”, “Sunshine Hall” and “Empty Pavilion”. The villa is covered with trees.

●Shentankou Rivers and harbors are connected and the water surface is vast. Bluestone piers, dispersed folk houses, ancient stone bridges, grape frames…the gentle feeling of water county in south of China remains the same. Each Dragon Festival, you will see a grand dragon boat ceremony.

●Xi’xi Plum Villa Originally it is a small village for plum peasants’ living, with the neighboring Plum & Bamboo Villa, Xi’xi Grass Hut, and Xi’xi Water Hall, it dedicates itself to consist the main content of Xi’xi Plum & Bamboo Leisure District. This place is quiet and free, a very place for you to experience leisure life of peasants’ life.

●Xi’xi Grass Hut The owner of this hut was Feng Mengzhen, a literator of Ming Dynasty.This hut is characterized with peaceful and quiet environment and rich scenes. Fences surround it. Green bamboos cover white mud wall. ancient well, grape arbors, stone chairs…make up a simple and quiet picture of peasants’ living.

●Hut means grass hall. It was a villa of Zhou Xiaozhi of late Ming Dynasty. Surrounding Bulrushes make it full of wild interests. The whole villa looks like a fairy island on the water. It was named as Bo Hut. This is a group of buildings for literators. Externally, it is pure and natural. Internally, it is fresh and elegant. It is a good place for reading books, tasting tea and viewing sceneries.

Lingshan Scenery Area [top]
Lingshan Cave

●Lingshan Cave is located in the southwest of Hangzhou city, with a distance to the downtown of 19 km. It is the joint of Qiantang River and Fuchun River. It is at the edge of West Lake. It is easy accessible. This scenery site collects “tallness, bigness, surprises and adventure” in one cave and integrates “wind, water, air and waterfall”. It is also called as Lingshan Fairyland. It has been called as “Yunquan Cave” in the history. There are many stalactites of different shapes. You will see a huge stone bamboo “Tianzhu Peak” with a height of 24.5 meters, and a big stalactite called as “Jade Lotus Waterfall”. 西湖区周浦乡Zhoupu County, West Lake District 510 8:00~16:00 86777243 38元

Colorful Wind & Water Cave

●It is one of the large water and land caves in our country. The “Nine-sky Flying-Dragon” stone wall with a height of 116 meters is called by the experts as the Number One Nine-Dragon Wall in the world. Wind & Water Cave is more than 1,200 meters long. The area is about 9,200 m2. The sightseeing route is zigzag. On the way, you will see more than 40 views of “Breaking Vale”, “Yunba Waterfall”, “Jade Wall”, “Stone Clothes Snow Lotus” and “Nine-sky Flying Dragon”, especially thousands of stone fl owers, stone pearls and stone balls that could be found everywhere in the cave. The in-cave waterfall with a height of more than 20 meters is quite rare in the country. Finally, you can take the only water electric train in the country passing the underground river of 320 meters. 西湖区周浦乡Zhoupu County,West Lake District 510 8:00~16:30 87601098 48元
Longwu Scenery Area [top]

Daqing Vale

●Daqing Vale is a new ecological leisure resort that integrates ecological
tour, agriculture sightseeing, open country adventure, fishing and Extreme sports. The land area is 3 km2. The distance to the downtown is 13.8 km. The air is fresh. Comparing with busy cities, it is regarded as “Shangri-La in the Paradise”

●Daqing Vale has many hills and bamb o os. It is quie t and peaceful. Here, you can see how water shields are planted. You can pick up water shields and drink a delicious water shield soup. You can also experience the whole processes of picking up tealeaves, cooking tealeaves and tasting tea. Also, you can dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest and pick up waxberries in the waxberry forest.Daqing Vale,Longwu,West Lake District
87092568 Y5(section)

Longwu Tea Village
●Longwu Tea Village has a background of green mountains, streams , teagardens , wo ods and villages. The farmer houses integrate tea garden, bamboo garden, vegetable garden and courtyard. People here are pure. The village has the tea garden with the large single-body area amongst all Longjing tea gardens. The tourists may walk around in the tea gardens and pick up tealeaves, or dig bamboo shoot s or wild vegetables in the hill, or pick up vegetables from vegetable garden and cook by themselves. In the evening, tourists may stay in the farmer’s house and drink wine and talk about daily life. It is a special tourist village that citizens could return to the nature, touch the land and release themselves.Shangchengli Village,Longwu Town,West Lake District Sightseeing Bus 8 of Hangzhou Tourist Distribution Center
Countryside Leisure Demo Site [top]
Shuangliu Farm

●Hangzhou Shuangliu Farm is a modern farm integrating fishing, leisure, culturing and sightseeing. Surrounded by hills, the farm has beautiful scenery. The area is 140 mu. It contains fi shing area, leisure area, sightseeing agriculture area, pigeon breeding area, etc.

●There are five fishing pools in the fishing area that are available for 500 people at the same time. The villas in the leisure area are constructed relying on fi shing pool. You may fi sh on the balcony. The internal living facilities are perfect. The pigeon breeding area has more than 10,000 pairs of American White Wing King seeding pigeon. In the sightseeing agriculture area, grapes, Chinese gooseberries, guavas and different crops are planted. It is an ideal place to have a leisure life and experience countryside life. Shuangliu Village, Zhuantang Town
(beside National Road 320) 87092352 Bus 514 or own car

Daqing Village

●Daqing Village is located in Daqing Vale Scenery Area. Hundreds of village families have their houses in the woods. People here are pure. There are large areas of bamboo forest and waxberry trees in the village. You may have a good time when you dig bamboo shoots and pick up waxberries. You can also experience the whole processes of picking up tealeaves, cooking tealeaves and tasting tea. On the weekends or holidays, please come here to live several days’ countryside life without the noise of cars. You can eat farmer’s dishes and feel warm and pure.
Daqing Village, Longwu Town 86777243 Bus Y5

Hangzhou Jiang Village Ecotype Agricultural Leisure Resort
Bus 830 88993387
Sanshen Village, Jiangcu County Terminus of Bus 830
Yangtse Fishing Leisure Garden
Bus 334 87603308
Zhoupu County, West Lake District (beside Hang-Fu Road)
Lvhui Leisure Farm Fuhaitang
Bus 334 87601908
Zhoupu County, West Lake District (beside Hang-Fu Road)
Tea Leisure& Sightseeing Garden (To be opened in Apr. 2006)
Bus 510 86777168
Shuangling Village,Zhoupu County(Lingshan Scenery Area)
Other Countryside Tourist Spots
Important tourist festival activities in West Lake District [top]
●West Lake Longjing Opening Tea Festival
Before Clear & Bright Festival (beginning of April) each year
Longwu Town, West Lake District

●Jiang Village Dragon Boat Competition
Duanwu Festival each year Jiangcun County, West Lake District
 
Recommended Tourist Routes [top]
1. “Tour of history and culture”: Xixi Everglade→Daqing Vale (Longwu Tea Village)→Song Dynasty Town (Hefang Street)

2. “Tour of discovery”: Xixi Everglade→Daqing Vale (Longwu Tea Village)- Linshan Cave and Wind & Water Cave

3. “Tour of visiting ancient time”: Xixi Everglade→Linying Temple→ West lake (Leifeng Pagoda, etc.)

4. “Tour of leisure countryside”: Daqing Vale (Longwu Tea Village)→ Shuangliu Farm (Lvhui Farm)

5. “Tour of famous mountains and water”: Xixi Everglade→Lin’an Tianmu Mountain Xixi Everglade→Xin’an River→Thousand-Island Lake

6. “Tour of tea culture”: Longwu Tea Village→Hangzhou West Lake Tea
Market→Lingshan Hill (the producing area of Jiuqu red plum tea)


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