Meijiawu Tea Culture Village, Free time at Hefang Street

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: 4 Star /4+Star Hotel in Hangzhou

After a leisure breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel and drive to Meijiawu Tea Culture Village which is considered the best to return to the nature. With its idyllic beauty, the tea farmer will take you to the mountain area and you will be impressed by the tea terraces of high and low hill-slops. In the village, you will have chance to experience Chinese tea culture. You will not only see tea picking and tea processing, but also have a chance to experience as a tea expert, entering a tea plantation, picking the tea leaves, visiting the tea farmer’s house and enjoying the local tea ceremony.

Then you will have a leisure time along Hefang Street. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, there were lots of shops and restaurants in Qinghefang, as the political, cultural and business center of Hangzhou. Hangzhou Living Poetry Night Show (The original Impression of West Lake Show) is recommended as an optional activity. Or you could also choose to walk into the night foot market with your guide as an optional tour, to experience the more authentic Chinese people's life.

Grand Canal Museum with paper umbrella painting, Grand Canal baot trip, Xiangji Temple, Transfer service to airport/train station

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Pick up from your hotel and drive to the Canal Square, start the tour by visiting Grand Canal Museum, located at the Gongchen Bridge area in north part of the city. The construction of the museum stands like a fan. It covers an area of 10700 squares meters. The museum is divided into five sections with the topic “Canals in the world and the Grand Canal in China” in the lobby. Here you can know the history, the formation, the digging and changes of the Canal. Then we move to workmanship and demonstrations pavilion. Here you have a chance to use your imagination to draw a picture on an oiled paper umbrella. In the Pavilion you have chance to see other traditional craftspeople working on their creations, such as making fans, umbrellas, teapots, scissors ect.

Then enjoy the canal view by taking a boat, walk around DaDouLu historic district and visit an ancient temple built in northern song dynasty—Xiang Ji Temple before lunch at a local restaurant.
Freet at leisure before transfer to airport or train station for your next destination.

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