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Yanguan Tide-Watching Area 盐官观潮Yánguān Guāncháo
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Jiaxing, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jiaxing
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yanguan Tide-Watching Area
Yanguan, the old county seat of Haining on the north bank of the Qiantang River, is the classic place to watch the river's tidal bore, which arrives here as a single long wave, with the largest tides around the 18th day of the eighth lunar month. A stone seawall of interlocking 'fish-scale' blocks, built in the Qing dynasty, runs along the riverside tide-watching park, overlooked by the seven-storey Zhan'ao Pagoda of 1612. In the old town behind are the Sea God Temple, built on imperial order in 1729, and the childhood home of the scholar Wang Guowei.
How to get to Yanguan Tide-Watching Area
In Yanguan town about 20 km south-west of central Haining and roughly an hour by road from central Hangzhou; Yanguan station on the Hangzhou–Haining intercity railway is about 7 km north of the old town.
Nearby
- Wuzhen Water Town 乌镇 40 km
Stone bridges and lantern-lit canals in a water town that's best after dark - West Lake 西湖 40 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 50 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Chen Gelao Mansion 陈阁老宅 (under 10 km), Anguo Temple Sutra Pillars 安国寺经幢 (under 10 km).
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