Hangzhou West Lake Youth Hostel

Meet your private guide in your hotel lobby at 8.30am and hop in a taxi to Hongqiao Train Station where you will enjoy a high-speed bullet train ride to Hangzhou. On the way, admire the countryside landscapes and learn more about the culture and history of the Yangtze River region from your guide.

Upon arrival in Hangzhou, take a walking tour around the famous West Lake, as your guide shares stories about the legends of the West Lake and Lady White. Enjoy a tasty local lunch at a local restaurant (own expense), then continue your trip with a visit to the Meijiawu green tea village. Stroll around the plantation and learn more about the growing, harvesting, and processing of the tea. Then, visit the beautiful Zhongzhu Temple, which dates back over 800 years.

Arrive at the Xitang Water Village around 4pm (an around 1.5 hour drive), in time to watch the sunset. This ancient water village has a history of over 2500 years and you can stroll around the cobbled streets, admiring the old buildings, bridges, and canals. Your guide will also point out the locations where the movie Mission Impossible 3 was filmed in 2005. 

Before heading back to Shanghai, perhaps choose to have a romantic dinner at a riverside restaurant in Xitang (own expense). After dinner, stroll around the popular West Street to browse the boutiques and handicrafts shops, and admire the illuminated town. 

Your tour ends around 8.30pm and you'll be dropped back at your hotel in Shanghai.

Inclusion :

• Private guide service

• One way bullet train ticket from Shanghai to Hangzhou

• A comfortable Buick car with private driver service in Hangzhou

• All entrance fee

• Free 4G wifi available during the tour

• Hotel pickup and drop-off

Exclusion :

• Gratuities (optional)

• Personal expense 

• Food and drinks

• Private transfer from Shanghai Hotel to Hongqiao Airport

Hangzhou west lake is a very nice place to go, it has a lot of love stories, in summer time, the lake is full of flowers, in winter time, the bridge is full of snow, very nice and beautiful, a lot of people go there for fun during their vacation time.

Our trip to hangzhou is as follows:

1st day: 9:00 start from hotel, then go to west lake by car, we could enjoy our time in west lake and linyin temple. Then finish our 1st day trip around 7:00 pm.

2nd day: 9:00 start from hotel, then go to shopping street and some other nice areas in hangzhou.

Let`s take the fast train to Hangzhou,if you don't plan only stay in Shanghai. From Shanghai to Hangzhou it only takes one hour by the high speed train. So it is very fast.

June 24, 2011, Hangzhou Wes Lake included in the "World Heritage List," West Lake is the only lake which included in this list in China. There are also few lakes can included in this list. It’s the West Lake’s great honor.

• Hangzhou, our Chinese all know that saying "up have the heaven, down have Suzhou and Hangzhou" We can find from this that Hangzhou is such a leisure and beautiful city. It almost can compare to heaven. Hangzhou has such famous glory the most reason is because of West Lake. In China’s old time,West Lake was also well-know by people. Many poets wrote West Lake as a charming woman,and any other gorgeous  thing. Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi after saw West Lake can’t forgets it."has not been able to throw Hangzhou to go, one partly stops over is this lake."
•  Hefang Street,an old and modern street to buy all kinds of presents.
•  Yanan Road. Go to shopping at daily life. Have all kinds of fashion and useful clothes.
• Linyin Temple to see the old temple in Hangzhou and the mountains there.