Breeze-Ruffled Lotus at Quyuan Garden
A remnant of the Southern Song Quyuan (a wine brewery): in summer the lotus-variety garden hosts West Lake's main lotus show, with dozens of lotus species spreading across the water along winding bridges—the best spot to savor the imagery of "lotus leaves stretching green endlessly to the sky"
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- Opening hours
- Open all day
- Ticket
- Free
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A remnant of the Southern Song Quyuan (a wine brewery): in summer the lotus-variety garden hosts West Lake's main lotus show, with dozens of lotus species spreading across the water along winding bridges—the best spot to savor the imagery of "lotus leaves stretching green endlessly to the sky"; the brewery ruins and lotus-culture displays are interspersed along the way. Free entry; at the north end of Su Causeway; early morning offers the best light for photographing lotus, and the smaller crowds make it ideal for a quiet stroll.
Getting there: North end of Su Causeway
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More in Hangzhou
- Xixi National Wetland
Boat maze of reeds and water villages west of the city.
- West Lake
UNESCO lake of pagodas, causeways and arched bridges; boat or bike the shoreline.
- Lingyin Temple
Buddhist temple founded 326 AD amid grottoes of Song-era rock carvings.
- Longjing Tea Village
Terraced Dragon Well tea fields; tastings at family farms.
- West Lake Loop
A World Heritage Site (inscribed in 2011): an urban lake with misty hills on three sides and the city on the fourth, dredged in succession by two of its governors, Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo; Su Shi's verse "wishing to compare West Lake to the beauty Xi Shi" made it a byword for Eastern aesthetics
- Su Causeway & Bai Causeway
Su Causeway, 2.8 km long, was built from dredged silt when Su Shi dredged West Lake; six bridges span the lake, with peach trees and willows lining both banks—"Misty Willows over Six Bridges" is the top spring scene