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Private Custom Hangzhou Day Tour with Shanghai Pickup Option
Hangzhou, Eastern China, China
$164.36
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Overview
The Hangzhou West Lake Boat Ride & Off-the-Beaten-Path Walk offers a unique perspective on the serene beauty of West Lake. This immersive day tour reveals hidden waterways and local culture through a blend of boat rides and leisurely walks.
- 🚣 Glide through Wugui Tan on a traditional hand-row boat, navigating a reed-lined waterway that most visitors never discover.
- 🌳 Walk through Maojiabu, a peaceful corner of West Lake, where local life and cultural sites unfold away from the bustling tourist areas.
- 🍵 Conclude your experience at a private teahouse, enjoying authentic Westlake Long Jing Tea and participating in a traditional cultural tea ceremony.
- 🗺️ Duration of 7 hours, providing ample time to savor the tranquil atmosphere and explore the beauty of the region.
- 👨🏫 English-speaking human tour guide available to enrich your journey with insights into local culture and history.
- ☕ Includes coffee and/or tea, along with light snacks to keep you refreshed throughout the day.
- 🥪 A guided walking tour immerses you in the local scenery, revealing the hidden charm of West Lake.
- 🚍 Convenient public transportation options nearby, making your arrival and departure hassle-free.
- 👶 Infants are accommodated by sitting on an adult’s lap, ensuring families can enjoy the experience together.
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Private Custom Hangzhou Tour
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
- Local expert guide
- Lunch
- Interactive cultural discovery
Meeting point
Go to the West Lake Pleasure Boat location on Nanshan Road (map point).
From there, walk along the lakeside toward Su Causeway for about 5 minutes until you reach Majiawan Hand-Row Boat Dock (hand-row boats).
Your guide will be waiting there.
Return details
The experience concludes with an immersive tea experience at a nearby teahouse (near the map point), allowing time to pause, reflect, and connect the landscape with the culture that has grown alongside it.
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Westlake HangzhouGlide through the quiet waterways of Wugui Tan by traditional hand-row boat. Surrounded by reeds, low bridges, and tree-lined banks, this hidden section of West Lake offers a calm, intimate atmosphere far from the main tourist routes, revealing a more local and tranquil side of the landscape.
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Lingyin TempleA top pick for culture lovers. Your private guide leads you through Lingyin Temple (the "Temple of the Soul's Retreat"), one of China's oldest and most revered Buddhist monasteries, founded in 326 AD. Wander incense-filled courtyards and grand halls, then explore the Feilaifeng grottoes facing the temple, where hundreds of Buddhist rock carvings — some over 1,000 years old — line the cliffs and caves. Your guide brings the history and living traditions to life, handles the two-part entry for you (both tickets included), and times the visit to dodge the biggest crowds.
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Longjing tea fieldsWalk the terraced tea fields of Longjing (Dragon Well) Village, home of China's most celebrated green tea. Stroll the plantation paths between the tea bushes — in spring you may see pickers at work on the hillsides — then sit down in a local tea farmer's home for a tasting of authentic Longjing, brewed the traditional way. Your guide explains how the leaves are picked, hand-roasted in woks, and graded, and translates as you chat with your hosts about village life. Buying tea afterward is entirely optional — no shopping pressure, ever. A peaceful countryside contrast to West Lake, only 20 minutes from downtown.
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Hefang StreetFinish with a stroll down Hefang Street, Hangzhou's historic walking street at the foot of Wu Hill, where the Southern Song dynasty's old merchant quarter lives on. Browse stalls of silk, fans, and calligraphy brushes, watch sugar-painters and craftsmen at work, and sample local street snacks — dragon's beard candy, dingsheng cake — with your guide steering you to the stalls worth trying. Duck into Huqingyu Tang, the 150-year-old traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy still dispensing today. A lively, easygoing end to the day, with photo moments and souvenir shopping everywhere.
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Xixi Wetland ParkThe choice for nature lovers: Xixi National Wetland Park, China's first national wetland park — a maze of quiet waterways, reed marshes, and persimmon groves just minutes from downtown. Glide through the channels by electric boat, watching for egrets and kingfishers, and step off at preserved waterside villages where old fishing and silk-farming traditions live on. Your guide knows the calmest corners and each season's highlight — plum blossoms in early spring, white reed flowers in autumn. The peaceful, big-sky counterpart to a morning in the city; best as the centerpiece of a full-day itinerary.
If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Private Custom Hangzhou Day Tour with Shanghai Pickup Option
Hangzhou, Eastern China, China
$164.36
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!