A famous lake surrounded by hills, pagodas, temples and gardens, celebrated by poets for centuries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Walk or cycle along the Su and Bai causeways, take a boat to the islands, and visit the Lingyin Temple with Buddhist carvings in the rock.
The tea plantations of Longjing (Dragon Well) are in the hills nearby; try the green tea. Hangzhou is an hour from Shanghai by high-speed train.
Suzhou's classical gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are miniature landscapes of ponds, rocks, pavilions and windows framing views.
Shanghai's riverside promenade lined with grand colonial-era banks and hotels, facing the futuristic skyline of Pudong across the Huangpu River, incl…
A range of granite peaks rising above a sea of clouds, with twisted pine trees growing from the rocks, which inspired centuries of Chinese painting a…
A village of white-walled Huizhou houses with black-tiled roofs, built around a half-moon pond and a lake that reflect the houses, with water channel…
Huge round and square earthen houses built by the Hakka people from the 12th century, each home to a whole clan, with rooms around a central courtyar…
More than 2,000 caves and niches along the Yi River with around 100,000 Buddhist statues carved between the 5th and 10th centuries, from tiny figures…
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