Discover the Timeless Charm of Ancient Water Towns Near Hangzhou, China

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：3 Days, 2 Night

Attractions(Cities)：Wuzhen Water Town, Wucun Village

Tour Style：This three-day tour takes your family from Hangzhou into Wuzhen, a well known water town in the Jiangnan region, and pairs the scenic town with a slower stay at nearby Wu Village. On day one you walk the old streets of Wuzhen, visit the Hundred Beds Museum, the Sanbai Wine Workshop and the Hongyuan Dye House, and take a boat ride on the canals. On days two and three you stay at Wu Village, about 500 meters north of the West Gate area, where the package covers rooms, meals, local transport and more than 20 activities, from cycling the field paths and joining farm work to using the cultural center for children and the Rice Field Pool. Your guide and driver handle hotel pickup and drop-off in Hangzhou.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Baichuang Museum, Folk Culture Museum, Sanbai Distillery, Hongyuan Thai Dye House, Chinese shadow puppetry, private helicopter flight

Tour Style：This Wuzhen day tour from Hangzhou combines the cultural sights of the water town with an optional private helicopter ride. Your guide meets you at your hotel in Hangzhou and drives you to Wuzhen. On the ground you visit the Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum, the Folk Culture Museum, the Sanbai Distillery, and an indigo dye workshop, then enjoy a canal boat ride and a shadow puppetry show. For a wider view you can add a helicopter flight over the Grand Canal and Wuzhen, in a 6-minute or a 10-minute option from the Wuzhen International Camping Site. The base price covers a private car, a guide, and entrance to the sites in the itinerary, while the helicopter ride and meals are paid separately.

Duration：2 Days, 1 Night

Attractions(Cities)：Hangzhou, Wuzhen Water Town

Tour Style：This two-day private tour from Hangzhou pairs the city highlights with a day in Wuzhen Water Town. Day one covers Hangzhou: a boat cruise on West Lake, Viewing Fish at the Flower Pond, Guo Garden, tea tasting at Meijiawu, the Bamboo-Lined Path at Yunqi, and Hefang Street. Day two moves to Wuzhen for the Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum, the Sanbai Wine Workshop, an indigo dye house, a riverside lunch, a shadow play show, and a canal boat ride. Your guide can meet you at your hotel, the train station, or the airport in Hangzhou, and each day ends with a return to your hotel or the station. A private car, a local guide, and entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary are included.

Duration：8-10 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Xitang water town

Tour Style：This Xitang ancient water town tour from Hangzhou spends a full day in one of the Jiangnan region's best-preserved canal towns, with over a hundred stone bridges and centuries-old lanes. Your guide and private driver handle the roughly ninety-minute road from Hangzhou. You walk the covered Mist Rain Corridor, cross the Ming-dynasty Huanxiu and Songzi Laifeng bridges, and visit the Zhang Zheng Root Carving Art Museum and the Button Museum, where you can try tying a traditional knot. Your guide introduces local artisans and folk stories along the way. Pickup and drop-off are at your Hangzhou hotel, the train station or the airport, and lunch is left open so you can eat along the canal.

Duration：2 Days, 1 Night

Attractions(Cities)：Xitang Water Town

Tour Style：This two-day tour goes from Hangzhou to Xitang Water Town and stays one night in the town, so you see Xitang by day and by night. Your guide meets you at your hotel in Hangzhou and drives you to Xitang. In the evening you walk the Mist-Rain Long Corridor as the lanterns come on, take a canal boat ride, and have dinner by the water before Bar Street. The next day you cross Huanxiu Bridge and Songzi Laifeng Bridge and visit the Zhang Zheng Root Carving Museum and the Button Museum, then stroll Flower Alley before the drive back to Hangzhou. A private car, a local guide, and entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary are included.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Jiaxing South Lake, Yuehe Historical District, Xitang Water Town

Tour Style：This full-day tour covers Jiaxing and nearby Xitang with a private car and guide. It starts at your hotel in Jiaxing. You begin at South Lake, the site tied to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, with its Red Boat, meeting hall, willow paths, and optional boat ride. Then you walk the stone lanes of Yuehe Historical District, an old town quarter of Ming and Qing houses, tea houses, and craftspeople, where you can try local snacks. In the afternoon the tour moves to Xitang Water Town for a canal boat ride, the Mist-Rain Long Corridor, and Bar Street as the lights come on. The day ends with a drop-off back at your hotel in Jiaxing. Entrance fees, transport, hotel pickup in Jiaxing, and a bilingual guide are included.

Duration：4-6 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Xitang water town

Tour Style：This Xitang water town night tour from Hangzhou is timed for the evening, when the lanterns come on and the canals are lit. Your guide meets you at your Hangzhou hotel and drives you to Xitang in a private car. You walk the Mist-Rain Long Corridor, take a wooden boat cruise on the canals, cross Huanxiu Bridge, and visit the Zhang Zheng Root Carving Art Museum. The evening ends on Bar Street and with a canal-side dinner of local dishes before the drive back. Entrance to the sites, a private car, hotel pickup in Hangzhou, and a bilingual guide are included, so the whole evening runs at your own pace.

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.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Nanxun Water Town

Tour Style：This Nanxun day tour runs from Shanghai and is built around the canals, old houses, and scholarly past of the town. You will visit the Former Residence of Zhang Shiming, the Jiaye Book Library Tower, and the Xiaolianzhuang garden with a local guide, and take a break at a teahouse by the water. Nanxun is less busy than the well-known water towns, so there is room to see how local people live along the canals and to move at your own pace. Private car, pickup at your Shanghai hotel or the airport, entrance fees, and a bilingual guide are included, and the guide explains the history of each stop as you go.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：China Paragliding Training Base, Longmen Ancient Town

Tour Style：This day trip from Hangzhou pairs a paragliding flight with a visit to Longmen Ancient Town. After pickup at your hotel, the train station, or the airport in Hangzhou, you drive about one hour to the China Paragliding Training Base in Fuyang. It is the largest and best-equipped paragliding facility in Asia, founded in 2008 by the General Administration of Sport in China, and you fly over the hills with an experienced pilot after a safety briefing. The day continues with lunch at a local Fuyang restaurant and time in Longmen Ancient Town, known as the hometown of Sun Quan. A private car, a guide, the flight, and entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary are included.

Duration：6-8 Hours

Attractions(Cities)：Anchang Ancient Town

Tour Style：This full-day Hangzhou to Anchang Ancient Town tour leads to one of the four major ancient towns of Shaoxing, known for canals, old stone bridges and black-awning boats. Your guide and private driver handle the road from Hangzhou. You walk the cobbled lanes while a guide explains Anchang's past as a merchant hub, then visit the Ancient Opera Stage, a Ming-Qing stone arch bridge, the Renchang Soy Sauce Workshop, where soy sauce ages in rows of clay jars, and the Old Site of the Bank of China, blending Western and Jiangnan architecture. You can taste Shaoxing snacks and the workshop soy sauce. Pickup and drop-off are at your Hangzhou hotel, the train station or airport, and lunch is left open.