The night garden is a world culture heritage. There are 8 different kinds of performance in the night garden. The entertainment has been very successful since then attracting a great deal of people at home and abroad because of its typical Su zhou flavor of traditional instruments and performance. Night garden just open from spring to autumn.

A. Suzhou Museum-Humble Administrator's Garden-Lion Grove Garden

These attractions are all located in Dongbei Street. It's about 4km away from the railway station.

Suzhou Meseum is open for free but has the limitation for visitors per day. That's why I put it first.

The mesuem is renowned for a number of cultural relics in this 2500-year-old city. Designed by the world famous architect I.M.Pei in 2006, the construction itself displays perfectly the idea "Chinese style with innovation and Suzhou style with creativity".

Humble Administrator's Garden is the most recommended spot if your time is limited. Ranked first  among China's four renowned garden and one of the  World Heritage Sites, this garden is no doubt the best representation of Suzhou classical gardens.

Lion Grove Garden, also known as Kingdom of Rockeries, is noted for numerous man-made limbstone mountains with winding pathways.

B. Guanqian Street- Lingering Garden- Tiger Hill

If you want to try some local specialties, Guanqian Steet is the best choice. There are century-old brand such as Huangtianyuan and Caizhizhai, which provides quality local food with a reasonable price. There is Xuanmiao Temple of Daoism in the street.

Lingering Garden boasts its fine gardening, luxurious and sapcious hall and collection of stones from the Taihu lake. Interesting enough, you can enjoy the view is changing at every step.

Tiger Hill is the symbolic scenic spot of Suzhou. As 'the first scenic spot in the State of Wu', for Suzhou was once the capital of the State of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period. Tiger Hill is the place where the king of Wu was buried.

Oriental Venice： Suzhou/ Soochow of Shanghai area...

Around Shanghai area, downside of Yangzi Big River, there are hundreds of Water town, due to this area, there are hundreds lakes, but after you visited Suzhou/Soochow-Oriental Venice, you will find what is the dream water town...!! 

Suzhou is China's well-known "city of gardens", which tops all others in both the number and the artistry of gardens.

Dating from Pi Jiang Garden of the Eastern Jing Dynasty,Suzhou's art of gardening has undergone a history of 1, 500 years. There were once over 200 gardens in the city,and 69 of them are still in good preservation today.

The concept of Suzhou classical gardens has gone beyond the city limits,since it generally refers to all those private gardens built in the regions south of the Yangtze.

The Suzhou garden originated from the desire to retire from the strife of officialdom and to shun from worldly affairs.

It seeks the return to Nature and the cultivation of temperament. In Taoist philosophy and the refinement of culture underlies the theme of the garden. Hills and waters,flowers and trees,pavilion, terraces,towers and halls constitute the basic garden elements,while the prominent tone is expressed in the dark colour of roof tiles,the grey of bricks,and chestnut brown of wooden pillars.

Suzhou garden is the Nature in nutshell ,which enables one to "feel the charm of mountains,forest and springs without going out of the noisy surroundings of the town". Its human interest also lies in that the architect, philosopher, poet, painter, and common folk can all find in it the idea,the flavour,the lines and the rhythm. The unfolding of the garden vistas is the verisimilitude of a landscape scroll. When enjoying tea, poem,flower arrangement or playing musical instrument in the garden,one gains the most natural inspiration. To those tourists desiring to understand China, Suzhou garden is the best museum.

Local chronicles reveal that during its heyday, Suzhou city held nearly 200 gardens, topping the whole nation. Suzhou gardens have their own characteristics in layout, structure and style.The Four Classical Gardens of Suzhou, i.e.