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.

Para garantir a disponibilidade, reserve o mais cedo possível. A reserva antecipada vale a pena considerar especialmente se você estiver planejando a viagem durante a alta temporada, como feriados ou fins de semana.

Esta excursão você pode cancelar sem custo até 24 horas antes do início da viagem. Se você cancelar após 24 horas ou não comparecer à excursão, ainda será cobrado o preço total da atividade. Chegar atrasado na coleta ou partida será considerado como não comparecimento.