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Chaoshan Scenic Area 超山Chāo Shān
4A scenic area · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Chaoshan Scenic Area
A low hill on the plain north-east of Hangzhou, famous for centuries for its plum trees and made popular by poets and artists in the late Qing and early Republican years. Around the Damingtang hall at its foot are the Song Plum Pavilion and the tomb and memorial hall of Wu Changshuo, first president of the Xiling Seal Society, and paths climb past the Miaoxi and Yuxi temples to a 'stone forest' of rocks on the summit.
How to get to Chaoshan Scenic Area
About 6 km south of Tangxi and roughly 30 km north-east of central Hangzhou, about 45 minutes by road.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 20 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 20 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings - Wuzhen Water Town 乌镇 40 km
Stone bridges and lantern-lit canals in a water town that's best after dark
Also within 20 km: Tangxi Ancient Town 塘栖古镇 (under 10 km), Gaoting Hill 皋亭山 (under 10 km), Grand Canal in Hangzhou & Gongchen Bridge 京杭大运河杭州段 (10 km), Xiazhu Lake Wetland 下渚湖湿地 (20 km), Liangzhu Museum 良渚博物院 (20 km), Sutra Pillar of Longxing Temple 龙兴寺经幢 (20 km).
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