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Full-day Xitang Water Town Tour from Hangzhou
1 day
Full Day
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Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Xitang Ancient Town, Xitang Town, Jiashan County 314100 China
Note: The start and end times will vary depending on traffic and road conditions
The guide will pick you up at 8:30 at your hotel lobby, and then will be transfer to Xitang water town.
To call this lovely water-village an oriental Venice would be wildly over the mark, yet it shares similarities with its more famous Italian counterpart. Canals dissect twisting narrow lanes and pathways, rendering the community traffic-free and boat friendly. Worn stone steps lead down to the waters and hopelessly pretty bridges span them. But Xitang is on an altogether smaller, happily domestic scale, and no matter how hard it tries, tourism is mercifully still in its infancy.
In Xitang fishing junks are still in everyday use - easily identified because they're covered in cormorants - and jostle alongside the myriad tourist boats. They're the source of local delicacies, including Fenhu Lake crabs, shrimps, eels, clams and turtles. Legs of pork hung in an open shed, were ready to be steamed on lotus leaves and served up with trotter sauce.
Even though Xitang is small, it's something of a centre for the arts. In summer, traditional folk operas, concerts and a local cinema play by the waterside in the open-air. And all year-round, young artists from the cities come to paint the alleyways and canals.
At the end of the day, your guide drops you off at your hotel.
Duration: 6 hours
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Xitang Ancient Town, Xitang Town, Jiashan County 314100 China
Note: The start and end times will vary depending on traffic and road conditions
The guide will pick you up at 8:30 at your hotel lobby, and then will be transfer to Xitang water town.
To call this lovely water-village an oriental Venice would be wildly over the mark, yet it shares similarities with its more famous Italian counterpart. Canals dissect twisting narrow lanes and pathways, rendering the community traffic-free and boat friendly. Worn stone steps lead down to the waters and hopelessly pretty bridges span them. But Xitang is on an altogether smaller, happily domestic scale, and no matter how hard it tries, tourism is mercifully still in its infancy.
In Xitang fishing junks are still in everyday use - easily identified because they're covered in cormorants - and jostle alongside the myriad tourist boats. They're the source of local delicacies, including Fenhu Lake crabs, shrimps, eels, clams and turtles. Legs of pork hung in an open shed, were ready to be steamed on lotus leaves and served up with trotter sauce.
Even though Xitang is small, it's something of a centre for the arts. In summer, traditional folk operas, concerts and a local cinema play by the waterside in the open-air. And all year-round, young artists from the cities come to paint the alleyways and canals.
At the end of the day, your guide drops you off at your hotel.
Duration: 6 hours
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Professional and friendly English speaking guide
- Traditional Chinese cuisine lunch
- Transport by vehicle or minivan
Not included
- Drinks
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Dress in comfortable shoes
- Minimum age of 2 years
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Features
Tourism
90%
Cultural
75%
Original
30%
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Very good tour, with a very professional guide. There are many interesting sights once the city is reached. The only downsides were that it was very crowded and that it is about an hour and a half trip each way from Hangzhou, with the route being a largely dull freeway equivalent. It is still worth doing, however