Hangzhou: 2-Day Private Tour with Lunch and Airport Transfer

Explore the history of the Grand Canal on a 2-day private tour of Hangzhou. Enjoy a Southern Song Dynasty Snacks Banquet with a traditional performance and a tea ceremony.
Explore Hangzhou with a 2-day private tour. Enjoy a Southern Song Dynasty Snacks Banquet, visit the Lingyin Temple, and take a cruise on the Jinghang Grand Canal. See the Meijiawu Tea Plantation and make your own oiled-paper umbrella.

DAY 1
Your private guide will be waiting for you at the airport/train-station arrivals. Enjoy the Southern Song Dynasty Snacks Banquet upon arrival. The banquet includes a cup of healthy flower tea, West Lake lotus root starch, Hangzhou-style cat's-ear noodles, wrapped fried bread sticks with shallots, and local moon cakes. During the banquet, enjoy a traditional stringed and woodwind instrumental performance and a tea ceremony.

After lunch, visit the Lingyin Temple, one of the most important and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, boasting plenty of pagodas and Buddhist grottoes. Then have a relaxing visit to West Lake, one of the major landmarks of Hangzhou. Stroll alongside the lake, and take a cruise to Fairy Island.

DAY 2
Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, start the day from the Meijiawu Tea Plantation – the place of origin of the best Dragon Well tea in China. Have a walk round the tea plantation, see how farmers pick tea leaves, and taste a cup of tea.

Have lunch at a local restaurant, after which you will start to explore the history of the Grand Canal. Take the cruise on the Jinghang (Beijing- Hangzhou) Grand Canal. Imagine the scene on the canal banks in times past, and get a feeling for recent developments in the city.

Afterward, try to paint your own oiled-paper umbrella at the Workmanship Demonstration Pavilion, where the oiled-paper craftsman will teach you. In the Pavilion you can observe other traditional craftspeople working on their creations; crafting teapots, or making fans, umbrellas, or even scissors.

Be escorted to the train station/airport for your departure.

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Questa escursione può essere annullata senza costi fino a 24 ore prima dell'inizio del viaggio. Se la annulli dopo 24 ore o non ti presenti all'escursione, ti verrà comunque addebitato il prezzo intero dell'attività. Essere in ritardo al ritiro o alla partenza sarà considerato come non presentarsi.