Suzhou Trip Overview
1) Explore the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Humber Administrator’s Garden;
2) Stroll at the Lingering Garden, see lotus ponds and bamboo groves in Summer;
3) Visit Panmen Gate – the oldest city gate of Suzhou;
4) Have a relax walk in Tongli Water Town – over 1000 years, which is one of the most fabulous water town in southern China, and learn about its history;
5) Enjoy the cruise down the Grand Canal;
6) Travel in an air-conditioned private vehicle；
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: Suzhou, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
Explore Suzhou Promoted Experiences
What to Expect When Visiting Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
1) Explore the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Humber Administrator’s Garden;
2) Stroll at the Lingering Garden, see lotus ponds and bamboo groves in Summer;
3) Visit Panmen Gate – the oldest city gate of Suzhou;
4) Have a relax walk in Tongli Water Town – over 1000 years, which is one of the most fabulous water town in southern China, and learn about its history;
5) Enjoy the cruise down the Grand Canal;
6) Travel in an air-conditioned private vehicle；
Itinerary
Day 1: Humble Administrator’s Garden – Suzhou Museum – Lion Grove – Guanqian Street
Stop At: Humble Administrator’s Garden, No.178 Northeast Road, Pingjiang District, Suzhou 215001 China
Visit Humble Administrator’s Garden was built in Ming Dynasty (early 16th century), dating back more than 500 years of history, is the representative works of classical gardens south of the Yangtze River. You will see hill house, Wave Corridor, kinds of bridges and pavilions in the garden.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Suzhou Museum, 204 Dongbei Jie, Pingjiang District, Suzhou 215000 China
visit thousands of rare cultural relics and unique architectures. This museum was designed by Leoh Ming Pei, a world-famous Chinese-American architect. It combines modern exhibition halls and classical gardens’ architecture together.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Lion Forest Garden, No.23 Yuanlin Road, Pingjiang District, Suzhou 215001 China
It is one of the four most famous and representative gardens of ancient classical style in Suzhou City, mainly characterized by its lakeside rocks and rockeries. The name of the garden is derived from the shape of these rocks, which are said to resemble lions.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: ZhongHua NongYe WenMing ChenLieGuan (GuanQian BeiLu), Guanbei Road, Beijing China
Walk along Guanqian Street (the name of the street means a street in front of a Taoist Temple), this street is 760 meters long, consists of the eastern, middle and western sections, the main theme of the street involves eating, shopping and entertaining. Some shops have a history of over a hundred years.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Master of Nets Garden – Tongli Water Town
Stop At: Tongli Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou 215217 China
It is considered the Venice in Asia. One of the best water village located in Suzhou and is a well protected water township with thousand years history.
Tongli has a similar history and natural scenery compared with Zhouzhuang, but is much less crowded. Tongli also has its own unique features which are worth exploring and experiencing. Tongli is divided into seven islands intersected by 15 canals. Because of the landscape, almost all of the buildings in the town are along the waterfront. In front of the buildings, small stairs leading to the canals were built, which are convenient for residents to wash clothes and for traveling around the town by boat.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Master-of-Nets Garden, No.11 Kuojiatou Alley, Daichengqiao Road, Canglang District, Suzhou 215006 China
Tour Master of Nets Garden – is unique for its small size and exquisite buildings, elegant landscape, and compact structure. The garden demonstrates Chinese garden designers’ adept skills for synthesizing art, nature, and architecture to create unique metaphysical masterpieces.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Lingering Garden – Shantang Street – Suzhou Grand Canal Tour – Panmen Gate
Stop At: The Lingering Garden, NO. 338 Liuyuan Road, Jinchang Dist, Suzhou 215008 China
It was first built in 1593 during in Ming Dynasty and it was a private residence of Xu Taishi, a bureaucrat of the Ming court. But now kept in the Qing Dynasty style, with a history of more than 400 years, the Lingering Garden has changed hands several times, each owner did his best to perfect it. It is known for exquisite architectural art. It boasts its fine gardening, luxurious and spacious hall, and collection of stones from Taihu Lake. The garden can generally be divided into four parts: the central, eastern, western and northern parts according to the style of the buildings.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Shantang Street, Jinchang District, Suzhou 215008 China
It is also well known as Seven mile Shantang, it is an ancient riverside pedestrian road that is very popular with tourists. This old street sector is only about 360 meters long, but it has the reputation of “miniature of the old Suzhou” and the “window of Jiangsu culture”. It was a commodities center, where merchants conducted business and community staged folk activities.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Suzhou Ancient Grand Canal, Guyunhe Travel Terminal, Side of Xinshi Bridge , Jinchang District, Suzhou 215004 China
Experiencing Suzhou by waterway afternoon after lunch. Relax yourself to take the 30 minutes Grand Canal tour, one of the 3 greatest projects in ancient China. Along the way, you will sea ancient city gates of Suzhou, more than 20 stone bridges in diverse styles of traditional designs, ancient river town dwellings and historical relics.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Panmen Gate, No.1 East Street, Canglang District, Suzhou 215002 China
The last destination to see Panmen Gate that the oldest city gate of Suzhou and the only existing water and land gate in China. The gate is located on the south-west corner of the Main Canal Suzhou. Originally built during the Warring States Period in the state of Wu, historians estimate it to be around 2,500 years old.
It is composed of two water passages, three land passages and the outside gate. The canal outside the gate is the oldest section of the Grand Canal that was also built 2,500 years ago. In its vicinity, there is a 1,000-year-old pagoda named Ruiguang Pagoda, the earliest pagoda in Suzhou; and the Wu Bridge, the entrance to the gate at that time over the water passage and the highest bridge in Suzhou at the time.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
