Heqiao Ancient Town

Duration：3 Days, 2 Nights

Attractions(Cities)：West Lake Boat Cruise, Viewing Fish at the Flower Pond, Guo Garden, China National Tea Museum, Leifeng Pagoda, Lingyin Temple, Bamboo-Lined Path at Yunqi, Meijiawu Tea Plantation, Six Harmonies Pagoda, Southern Song Imperial Street, Wuzhen Water Town

Tour Style：This three-day private tour from Hangzhou covers the city highlights and adds a day in Wuzhen Water Town. Day one is built around West Lake, with a boat cruise, Viewing Fish at the Flower Pond, Guo Garden, the China National Tea Museum, and Leifeng Pagoda. Day two takes in Lingyin Temple, the Bamboo-Lined Path at Yunqi, Meijiawu tea village, the Six Harmonies Pagoda, and the old Southern Song Imperial Street. Day three moves to Wuzhen for the Hundred Beds Museum, the Folk Custom Museum, the Sanbai Wine Workshop, a dye house, and a shadow play show. Each day starts and ends at your hotel in Hangzhou. A private car, a local guide, and entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary are included.

Duration：6-7 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Wuzhen Water Town: Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum, Sanbai Wine Workshop, Hongyuan Thai Dye House, Shadow Play Show, Boat Ride

Tour Style：On this full-day Wuzhen water town tour from Hangzhou, your guide and driver handle the roughly two-hour drive each way. Wuzhen is one of the six best-known ancient towns of Jiangnan, built around canals, stone bridges and black-tiled houses. You walk the lanes with a guide who explains the antique beds at the Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum, Ming Dynasty rice-wine brewing at the Sanbai Wine Workshop and the indigo cloth still printed at the Hongyuan dye house, then watch a shadow-puppet show and take an awning boat along the canal. Lunch at a riverside restaurant is left open on purpose; your guide takes you to a genuine local table and helps you order freshwater fish and braised pork. The driver drops you back at your Hangzhou hotel.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Longmen Ancient Town

Tour Style：This Longmen ancient town tour from Hangzhou spends a day in a riverside clan village, one of the largest settlements of the descendants of Sun Quan, with a large surviving block of Ming and Qing houses. Your guide and private driver handle the road from Hangzhou. You pass the Grand Longmen Archway and the inner Yimen gate, see Inkstone Pond, the Sun Family Ancestral Hall and the working Longmen Old Street, with your guide explaining the clan history behind each. Much of Longmen is still lived in, so the visit shows how the town works day to day. Pickup and drop-off are at your Hangzhou hotel, the train station or the airport, and lunch is left open on the old street.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Nanxun Water Town

Tour Style：This Nanxun day tour from Hangzhou spends a day among the merchant mansions and gardens of a quieter canal town, and ends with a boat ride on the old canal. Your guide and private driver handle the roughly one-hour road from Hangzhou. You visit the Little Lotus Garden laid out in 1885, the former residences of Zhang Shiming and the Liu family, and the Baijian Lou hundred-room complex, then take a short cruise past arched bridges and the backs of the old houses. Your guide explains how the silk and salt trade paid for these houses. Lunch is taken locally and paid for separately. Pickup and drop-off are at your Hangzhou hotel, the train station or the airport.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Nanxun Water Town

Tour Style：This Nanxun water town tour from Hangzhou spends a day in one of the quietest of the Jiangnan canal towns, known for the scholar gardens and mansions its Qing-dynasty merchant families left behind. Your guide and private driver handle the roughly one-hour road from Hangzhou, so the day stays on the town. You visit Xiaolianzhuang, the Little Lotus Garden of the official Liu Yong, the Hundred Houses lanes of Baijianlou, Liu's Garden with its mix of Chinese and Western rooms, and the Former Residence of Zhang Shiming, then see a wedding show staged on boats along the canal. Lunch is a riverside meal at a local table, left open so you can order what you like. Pickup and drop-off are at your Hangzhou hotel, the train station or the airport.