3 Days Suzhou Essence Tour

Day 1

Arrival Suzhou
Arrive in Suzhou. Be met at the train/bus station and transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.
Meals: No meal
Accommodation: In Suzhou

Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou is one of the oldest towns in the Yangtze Basin. And Suzhou remains one of the most beautiful cities in China with its blue web of interlocking canals and classical gardens that inspired the Chinese to name it 'paradise on earth' and Marco Polo to call the city the 'Venice of the East' during his visit.

Day 2

Suzhou
After breakfast, you can enjoy a relaxing tour to the famous Humble Administrator's Garden, which is a representative of Suzhou Classical Chinese Garden. And then, visit New Suzhou Museum designed by I.M. Pei. Then continue to Silk Factory to find out how silk is being made..
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Suzhou

Humble Administrator’s Garden (Zhuozheng yuan) is the best representation of Chinese classical gardens of the Ming Dynasty. Its design is duplicated in many gardens throughout China, and there‘s even a replica in the New York Metropolitan Museum. In total, the garden contains 48 different buildings with 101 tablets, 40 stelae, 21 precious old trees, and over 700 Suzhou-style penza. In 1997, Zhuozheng Yuan, along with other classical gardens of Suzhou was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Suzhou Museum is a museum of more than 15,000 pieces of collections. Most are ancient paintings and calligraphy, ceramics, crafts, unearthed relics and revolution relics. New Suzhou Museum is the last design of Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei in his career. It is not only a public construction symbol in Suzhou, but also an innovative mark bridging Chinese architectural culture from the tradition to the future.

Silk has a history of some 4,500 years in China, so they have become adept at producing many different types of silk, as well as dyeing it and weaving different patterns into the fabric. Suzhou is famous for its silk production. In the Silk Factory you can see a display of the life-cycle of the silk worm and demonstrations of how the silk is harvested from the cocoons and eventually woven into fabric. It is quite astonishing to learn that one cocoon can produce about 2 km of silk strand, and that several of these strands are twined together to make a single thread. The process is so slow and painstaking; it comes as no surprise that genuine hand-made silk articles are so expensive.

 

Day 3

Departure Suzhou
Enjoy your free time then be transferred to the train/bus station for your next destination transportation.
Meals: Breakfast

Service Ends

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