Xianghu Lake
Xiaoshan's "sister lake" to West Lake: a similar hill-and-water layout but far fewer visitors; cycling around the lake and boat rides are the classic activities
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- All day
- Ticket
- Some areas free · Kuahuqiao Site Museum free
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
Xiaoshan's "sister lake" to West Lake: a similar hill-and-water layout but far fewer visitors; cycling around the lake and boat rides are the classic activities. The Kuahuqiao Site Museum (Free) displays an 8,000-year-old dugout canoe — China's earliest dugout canoe, pushing Zhejiang's prehistory back considerably. Parts of the park area are free; direct access via Metro Line 1, Xianghu Station; half a day is enough, and it combines well with Hangzhou Paradise and Hangzhou Polar Ocean Park.
Getting there: Metro Line 1, Xianghu Station
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More in Hangzhou
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- West Lake
UNESCO lake of pagodas, causeways and arched bridges; boat or bike the shoreline.
- Lingyin Temple
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- 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
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