Tea hills and a storybook lake. Private guiding, your own vehicle, and an itinerary built around how long you actually have.
Hangzhou is what Chinese people mean when they say a city is beautiful. West Lake — a 6 km² stretch of water ringed by willow trees, causeways and pagodas — has been landscaped and written about for over a thousand years, and it still delivers.
An hour from Shanghai by high-speed rail, it's the easiest add-on to any eastern itinerary. Beyond the lake there are the Longjing tea terraces, the Lingyin Temple and its carved grottoes, and a slower, greener side to China that group tours rarely reach.
Two days: one for West Lake and the city, one for the tea hills and Lingyin. Hangzhou is an ideal 1–2 day stop between Shanghai and Huangshan.
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