Zhujiajiao ancient water town, located in the middle-south part of the Qingpu area close to the Dianshan lake scenic area, faces the dividing line of the West Da Ying and city surrounded highway in its east and is close to Dianshan Lake with the grand view garden scenic spot on the other side of the lake in its west, neighbors the Shen Xiang town in its south, borders the Diandong of the Kunshan city in Jiangsu in its north. It is 6 kilometers away from the Qingpu Town in its south and 48 kilometers away from the Shanghai city center. It is a famous ancient town in Shanghai which has attracted numerous travelers from home and abroad.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Covering an area of 54.5 square kilometers and having a long history, the Zhujiajiao water town features rich travel resources. It has been honored as “Jiangnan Pearl”, “Shanghai Venice”, “HuJiao Hollywood” and listed as one of the four big historical cultural famous town in Shanghai and AAAA level scenic spot in China. Walking along the Zhujiajiao Water Town, you can see winding water pass through the classic bridges, which are characterized by strong poetic atmosphere and elegance. The residential homestead was built in accordance with the water with the building style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, graceful and spectacular.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Charming natural scenery in famous zhujiajiao ancient town is undoubtedly a mountain called Dinashan and a lake called Dianshan Lake, which shows the Jiangnan water town’s features. There are also some other famous ancient town characteristic humanities landscape, including bridge, street, temple, hall, gardens, bay, lanes. Moreover, it is famous for its leisure facilities at home and abroad and its one line street—North Avenue, is the first street that has been best preserved among the Ming and Qing buildings in the outskirts of Shanghai.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 24 hours; 2) Ticket price: 60 RMB/adult; 3) Visiting time suggestion: 3 hours; 4) Best time to visit: Spring time and autumn time as the weather at that time is moderate and the scenery is beautiful which is appropriate for appreciating the water and customs there.

Located in the Shanghai center city, the Xintiandi is a urban tourist attractions showing the Shanghai historical and cultural view. It is a famous pedestrian street reformed on the basis of the unique shikumen architecture of old Shanghai area, featuring the combination of catering, business, entertainment and culture. It makes the fundamental key with fusion of Chinese and western, old and new combination to fuse the Shanghai traditional shikumen lanes with new buildings full of contemporary feeling together.

Xintiandi

The Xintiandi nowadays is Shanghai’s new landmark, it is the best place to enjoy Shanghai history and culture and modern life form. Covering an area of 30,000 square meters, its Shikumen buildings with sixty thousand square meters building area keeps the bricks and tiles at that time, which makes travelers there enter into As if into the time tunnel and back in the 1920s. However, the inner compound of every building is tailor-made according to the way of life, modern city life rhythm and emotional world of the modern city people in 21 century, being the international galleries, boutiques, theme restaurants, cafe and bar.

Xintiandi

Outside the door is the amorous feelings of shikumen lanes, inside the door however is completely the modern way of life, just one step beyond, makes you feel like across the universe of time. Colorful street performances, and innovating fashionable activities bring new rich move feeling of modern fashion style to become the leader of modern trend. The Xintiandi in Shanghai has successfully rewrote the history of shikumen and injected new vitality to the shikumen that has been the historical relics.

Xintiandi

In daytime, you will see a lot of Chinese and Foreign tourists go to xintiandi for sightseeing and photo-taking, at night, here is filled with romantic European charm. Because of the outline of history and culture and the modernization of internal space and also the international management content, the Xintiandi makes middle aged and elderly people recollects the good old days there, the young people feel it fashionable, the foreigners feel it “Chinese” and the Chinese feel it foreign. It has been a best choice for leisure time there.

The Bund

Located in the bank of the Huangpu River in the Huangpu area of the Shanghai city, the Bund is the attractive sightseeing in Shanghai, with its surrounding Landmark landscape including the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower etc. in the other side of the Huangpu River, which makes it the must-see and must-arrive scenic spot for every travelers there.

The Bund

Featuring the total length of 1.5 kilometers, with its south starting from the Yanan east road, north to the Garden Bridge of Shanghai in the Suzhou River, east facing the Huangpu River and west gathering the World Financial Center and Foreign Trade Agency in the old Shanghai period which are made up with 52 different style of the classical revival buildings characterized by Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, Chinese and western style, the Bund is called the Universal Expo of Architectures. It has been changing a lot because of those new-built skyscrapers in its back: the famous Bank of China Tower, Peace Hotel, Custom House, HSBC Building there recreates the “Far East Former Wall Street”. Though those buildings were not designed by the same architect, nor designed in the same period, their architectural color is basic unity, and the overall contour processing astonishing coordination. No matter you appreciate them from a long distance or walking along them, you can sense the energetic and vigorous, natural and graceful and showy momentum there.

The Bund

The streetscape made up by the bund river, long beach, green belts and the grandeur of the buildings is the most characteristics of the landscape in Shanghai. It has been listed as one of the ten now scenery in 90s in the year of 1995. The Bund, in the morning is the best place for people’s fitness, in the daytime, is the busy tourist attraction, at night, is the heaven and earth for couples in love.

Travel information: 1)Opening time: 24 hours; 2)Ticket price: free; 3)Ways to got there: take the No. 868, 921, 37, 55, 65, 33 and 123 city public buses; 4) Best time to visit: spring time and autumn time, March to May and September to October. 5) Duration suggestion: 1 hour.

Yuyuan Garden

Being a famous attraction in Shanghai, the Yuyuan garden is near the Fuyou road in its north, Anren road in its east and also links together with the Old Chenghuang Temple and Yuyuan Tourist Mart in its southwest. There are so many ancient buildings and architectures inside it including pavilions, rockeries and ponds, which are characterized by exquisite design, delicate overall arrangement, quiet and beautiful style and dainty and exquisite, reflecting the southern landscape architectural art style of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Located in the Huangpu area, the Yuyuan Garden is the private garden during the Ming Dynasty built in 1559, which fully demonstrates the style of Chinese classical garden architecture and design. It is a a pearl in jiangnan gardens and has been place of sightseeing for numerous travelers from home and abroad. It was open to public in the year of 1961.

Yuyuan Garden

Enjoying the reputation of “ City Forest”, and also having the legend of “ Under a Famous in Southeast China:, the Yuyuan Garden is Shanghai’s famous jiangnan classical gardens featuring 400 years history and it has been the national key cultural relics protection units. The Yuyuan Garden what we called nowadays, generally include several busy streets, and the symbol of the Yuyuan Garden: Bridge of Nine Turnings, Mid-Lake Pavilion, Chenghuang Temple etc. There are many famous restaurants nearby, including Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant which is famous for the small steamed bun and Shanghai old restaurant and so on.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 9:00 a.m.-17:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 40 RMB/adult in the peak season during 1st April to 30th August and 1st September to 30th November and 30 RMB/ adult in the slack season. 3) Best time to visit: spring time as you can view the beauty of the flowers in full bloom. 4) Playing time suggestion: 2-3 hours. 5) How to get there: take the No. 11, 26, 64, 66, 920, 926, 929 and 930 city public buses. 6) Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival time: 18:00-22:00 for every night during lunar New Year’s Day to the eighteenth day.

Tangyue Memorial Archways

Tangyue Memorial Archways is located in the east avenue of the Tangyue Village in Zhengcun town, Shexian County, Anhui province. There are 7 Memorial Archways in total, among which three were built in Ming Dynasty and four were built in Qing Dynasty. It is the most memorial archways among the south of Anhui province. These seven Memorial Archways set together in groups featuring primitive simplicity and elegance.  No matter you view them from the front or the back, you will find them set in the order of loyal, filial piety, section and righteousness, and every Memorial Archway has its emotion interweave and moving story.

Tangyue Memorial Archways

Being a national key cultural relics protection units nowadays, the Tangyue Memorial Archways is neighboring the ancient ancestral temple, ancient dwelling and ancient pavilion residence. Under the vast backdrop of beautiful mountain light and water color with pastoral scenery, the Tangyue Memorial Archways has been the natural film and television base which worthy your visit.

Tangyue Memorial Archways

Tangyue Memorial Archways is the representative work of the architectural art in Ming and Qing dynasties. It’s architectural style integrated at mass, though its time span has been hundreds of years, it still shows its uniqueness and characteristic. Tangyue Memorial Archways are nearly used the stone material, especially those Shexian county green stone whose quality and texture are excellent, instead of those wooden structure material. Theses kinds of green stone Memorial Archways are solid and strong, tall and straight, noble and magnificent, straight and impressive looking. The archway architecture art has been improved during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Building experts think that Tangyue Memorial Archways has greatly important value to the research of policy, economy, culture and architectural art of the Ming and Qing Dynasty and to the formation and development of the Hui business and even the dwellings folk there.

Travel information: 1)Opening time: 7:30 a.m.-17:30 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 100 RMB/adult.3) Ways to go there: take the No.4 city public bus with the price of 3 RMB.

Tachuan Village

Tachuan Village, located in the 15 kilometers northeast of the Yixian County with about 2 kilometers away from the Hongcun Village, is a unique mountain village with beautiful and rich natural scenery among the natural villages group in Yixian County. It belongs to the typical Jiangnan hilly landscape, which is surrounded by high mountains, clear waters, dense forest, lush bamboo etc. You will sense the birds singing and taste the sweet smell of the followers all the year round; moreover, cloud and mist are curling up the village for four seasons, which makes the environment there very attractive and captivating.

The Tachuan Village has 14 villagers groups with 420 households and 1200 people. And it covers a total area of 10.66 square kilometers, among which there are 9,049 mu garden plot, 1,337 cultivated land and 12,605 forest land. Leaning against the northwest of Yellow Mountain, and facing the ripping Shiliqi Lake, the Tachuan Village looks like a huge tower hiding in the valley and standing among the shade from a long distance. A clear stream breaks away the Gao An Mountain and the Di An Mountain and flowes down along the mountain to pass through the village directly to the beautiful luxury villas lake.

Tachuan Village

Start from the Hongcun Village and walk along the Hongsi highway with less than 2 kilometers, you will reach the Tachuan Village. When you are in front of the village, you will find many huge ancient trees standing in front of you, and there are camphor trees, Chinese torreya, maples and so on. That is the first scene of the Tachuan Villag—“Five Towering Trees”. After hundreds of years, every tall ancient tree seems to tell the vicissitudes of the Tachuan Village history. And its outcrop of thick roots looks like huge hands to support a giant umbrella for the local people there.

Walking along the Tachuan Village and appreciating the primitive simplicity, harmony and pure and fresh beauty, you trip there will undoubtedly be enjoyable!

Monganshan or Mount Mogan National Park consists of mount having three peaks and some foothills. It is among some of the top resort places of China. It is best known as a resting and hiking area with plenty of guesthouses where people can rent rooms in well built western style buildings. These buildings have been made when this area was mainly a foreigner enclave before 1948.

Moganshan Scenic Area

This area is dotted with the villas of European style that has been turned into guesthouses. The best things for the tourists is that there are lots of Pine and bamboo forest as well as interesting natural features like the rock formations that you can hike for seeing Chinese style paved footpaths and dirt and stair paths which are cut through the vegetation. The paved path goes to the top where you can see the beauty of the valley of Anji. There are many places where you can hike to in this park. There is a peak called as Ta Shan which is 724 meters or 2375 feet in height.  This is not too much height but you can hike to the top along the paved path. You can also go for hiking to the waterfall and a pond known as Sword Pond.  You can also walk around looking at the villas and houses make of stones. Some of them are really big. You can also identify the various architectural styles like French, British and American.  Some of them look like the European chalets.  One of the highlight is the strange rock formation that some of the people think is weird. It is called as the Guai Shi Jiao or Weird rock corner in Chinese. You can go there by walking along the ridges and you can also get the views of green hills from there.

Moganshan Scenic Area

Yue Fei’s Tomb is situated at the Southern foot of the Qixia Hill. This tomb has been build for the commemoration of Yu Fei. In the year 1961, the State Council declared it as the major national protected monument. General Yu Fei was the national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty and distinguished himself in the battle against the northern invaders. He was sentenced to death after he was framed for the crime which he did not commit.

Yue Fei Temple

This tomb is situated on the bank of the Lake Yue the northwest corner of the West lake. The Yue Fei’s temple looks towering and lofty.  It is made up of three parts which includes tomb ground, Devotion Garden and Loyalty Garden. The stature of Yu Fie lies inside King Yue’s Temple and there is a plaque hanging which inscribed in the calligraphy of Yue “Recover Our Lost Territories” right above the statue. The Devotional Garden is dedicated to the parents, wife and sons of Yue Fei and it serves as the Yue Fei’s memorial hall. The tomb of Yue Fei’s gounds situated on the left side of the Loyalty Garden. This tomb is in round shape and built with rocks. There is the tomb of his son besides it. On the Tomb ground’s Screen wall there are four big Charcters caved in Chinese “Be Loyal to the Motherland” which is the life time motto of Yue Fei.

Yue Fei Temple

There is a path on both the sides which leads to the tomb and having stone tigers, stone horses, stone figures and stone sheep which dates from the Ming Dynasty. Below the stages of these path there are four cast iron staues of the traitors” Qin Hui, Prime Minister of Sothern Song Dynasty; Wang Shi, his wife; Zhang Jun, a general and Moqi Xie, a court official. All these four statues kneel down in pair and their hands are tied behind their back. There are over 125 carving or steles which includes some poems by some prominent personality throughout history expressing their respect for this nationa hero as well as some Fei’s calligraphy.

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Xixi National Wetland Park is located in the western part of Hangzhou and it is less than five kilometers from the west land and a rare urban wetland. It is a simple natural landscape having rich ecological resources as well as profound culture. It is among the one of the Three Xi’s whih are Xihu or West lake and the Xiling. It is the only and first wetland park of China which combines urban life, culture and farming. It has broad open views and a variety of water views. This area enjoys a warm and humid climate with abundant precipitation and all four distinct seasons.

Xixi National Wetland Park

The human and natural landscape of this wetland has been grouped into three causeway and ten sights. The three causeways are Causeway Fu, Causeway Shou and Causeway Lu and according to Chinese there three words fu, lu and shou carry the meaning of prosperity, fortune and longevity. Causeway Fu is about 2,300 meters long, seven meters wide and stretches through the park from south to north. There are six bridges spanning across the bank and named with the Chinese character ’fu’.  Causeway Lu is about 1600 meter long and 7 m wide and stretches through the core reserve area from west to the east. It connects the ecological arboretum having the major scientific research project of the wetland and also serving as an ecological bank. Causeway Shou on the other hand is longest of all three having length of 3600 meter and width of 4.5 meters. Crisscrossing waterways and ancient trees here forms the ecological landscape.

Xixi National Wetland Park

The ten sites are Qiuxue Hut which is the best scenery of this wetland and it can be reached only by the boat; Exhibition of Dragon Boat Culture; Lotus Flower Eco-Reserve area for bird watching; Water Mirroring Red Persimmons; Charm of Hong’s Villa which is the living place of Hongs, Boat rowing in the Moonlight, Fog and Water Fishing Village, Xixi Plum Villa which is the home to plum tree; Gao’s Villa.

Peak Flown From Afar or Fei Lai Fengs stands next to the Temple of Soul’s Retreat or Lingyin Temple and is one of the Famous tourist sites in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. There are many legend related to the name of this peak.  There is a legend that an Indian monk, Huili arrived in this valley about sixteen hundred years ago and was very much impressed by the peak dissimilar from any other valleys and he believed that this peak had flown over from India because of its shape as it was common in India. However, he was unknown from the fact that this peak would have flown to this place far from his country. Hence, this peak is known by this name from that time.

Peak Flown from Afar

Fei Lai Feng is about 700 feet tall and it is a pure limestone mountain which is very much distinct from the Sandstone Mountains around it. Large stones are scattered along this peak which resembles animals like running elephant, flying dragon, fleeing monkey and crouching tiger. There is a pavilion on the other side o the peak which is called Cui Wei and was erected for immortalizing the national hero Yue Fei. He has contributed greately in the war against the Jin Tribe during the period of Southern Song Dynasty. This pavilion was destroyed many times and finally restored in the year 1942.

The caves of this mountain are having 330 stones statue which dates back to the 10^th and 14^th centuries. The statues appear in many poses like standing, sitting and sleeping. There is one statue of Laughing Buddha which sits on the Cliff along the stream with the belly and breast exposed. If you wonder that why he has such a big belly then it is his belly where he keeps all the troubles of the world. This peak has destroyed many villages before settling down in Hangzhou and in order to prevent the peak from causing more damage, more than 500 statues of Buddha has been carved for suppressing it.