Half Day Suzhou Classic Tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: The Lingering Garden, NO. 338 Liuyuan Road, Jinchang Dist, Suzhou 215008 China

Pick up service is arranged at the exit of Suzhou train station or your Suzhou downtown hotel.

Your day tour starts at the Lingering Garden, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the city's finest classical gardens. It has been listed as one of the four most famous national classic gardens together with the humble administrator's garden, the Summer Palace and Mountain Summer Resort in Chengde are called China's four largest gardens. Landscape architectural space processing is very exquisite, using a variety of artistic techniques, built a unique space system, becoming one of the world civilization examples of architectural space art processing. Wander through the trails and portals of this delicately-planned garden that carefully combines traditional Chinese architecture with natural beauty.A good place to let your mind and body rest.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Shantang Street, Jinchang District, Suzhou 215008 China

Then move on to Shantang Street, it also called Seven-mile Shantang, is located in the northwest of Suzhou, and the total length of it is about seven li (3.5 kilometers). Shantang Street in Suzhou attracts many tourists from home and abroad. Most of them prefer traveling along the canal, enjoying beautiful scenery. Owing to its distinguished geographic location and convenient water and land transportation, Shantang Street was one of the streets which trade and culture were most highly developed in Ming and Qing dynasties, regarded as "the No.1 Ancient Street in China". The renovated Shantang Street becomes the place which shows the essence of natural views and human landscapes of Suzhou, which is rated as "The miniature of old Suzhou and the window of Wu culture". There is a folk song, singing "There is a paradise in heaven, but there are Suzhou and Hangzhou on the earth. Hangzhou has the West Lake while Suzhou has Shantang. Both are good places with boundless sceneries, which is the vivid image of Shantang.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Suzhou Silk Museum, 2001 Renmin Rd, Ping Jiang Qu, Suzhou Shi, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 215001

The last stop is Suzhou No.1 Silk Mill, it has a long history of silk culture, including mulberry trees and silk worm cultivation and turing raw silk into beautiful fabric. Suzhou's climate and soil are perfect for silk production, and the city has been a center of China's silk trade for many centuries. The Suzhou No.1 Silk Mill has been a proud steward pf this heritage for more than 80 years. It's more like a museum where you can learn how the silk is made from cocoons from the beginning and the whole silk process. Not to be missed.

After the tour ends, drive you back to your hotel or Suzhou train station.

Duration: 50 minutes