Yangzhou Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
Slender West Lake Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Apr)
This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
Slender West Lake in Yangzhou
Slender West Lake is located in the northwest of Yangzhou City in Jiangsu Province. It's a beautiful park with gardens, temples and pagodas. 🦢🏞️🏯
The history is also very interesting and many sings are biliangual in Chinese and English. It is known for its narrow waterways (so the name slander) that connect gardens, bridges and the area's numerous picturesque spots. Great for taking pictures! 📸
My favorite spot was the bridge on picture 1, so nice.
🎟️ Ticket is about 100RMB, year card is also available
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Classic Chinese Park
It is similar to most of the Chinese lake parks 🎋🌳. Those who have more interest into Chinese culture, monuments, gardens and architecture is a great place to explore 🎍. You can either explore the park by walking or by boat ride ⛵️. I heard its more beautiful in spring with blossoms.🌺🌻
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Water town you can’t miss: Yangzhou
Slender West Lake park in Jiangsu is a gorgeous scenic spot you should visit. You can either take a long walk around the lake, enjoying the scenery and cultural spots, or take a long and beautiful ride in the boats.
During spring, weather is nice and flowers make this park an outstanding location. There are many beautiful locations for the perfect picture. Although, during our visit the park was so crowded we couldn’t enjoy it as much as we wanted it. Easy to realize many people travel from far away to visit this gorgeous lake.
Inside the park, there are so many special spots that will bring your attention, from the gardens to the white pagoda, boats decorations and blossomed trees, stone laying, bridges, architecture.. absolutely amazing. This place also holds strong cultural heritage and history.
📍 No.28, Dahongqiao Road Slender West Lake Scenic Area Nei, Hanjiang, Yangzhou
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Ge Garden: The mountain light of four seasons is condensed in the stone, and the shadow of bamboo is swaying with the cool autumn
Ge Garden, named after bamboo and famous for its stones, is the oldest and best preserved salt merchant garden in Yangzhou. If 'March fireworks in Yangzhou' is the endorsement written by Li Bai for Yangzhou, then 'the best place in the west of bamboo' is the promotion given by Jiang Kui to Ge Garden. The lush green bamboo separated by a wall separates the hustle and bustle of Dongguan Street and soothes the anxiety and impatience brought by my hurried journey.
'Prefer to eat without meat, rather than live without bamboo', the owner of Ge Garden, Huang Yingtai, cherishes and loves bamboo, even changed his name to 'Zhiyun', and planted his residence full of lush bamboo. Naming the garden 'Ge' is not only a clever take on the charm of the Chinese character and shape of bamboo; the three strokes in the painting also represent the perfect realm of the three fullness of fortune, salary, and longevity. This is also the most famous classical garden in Yangzhou besides Slender West Lake - if you don't come to Ge Garden, you haven't been to Yangzhou.
Four Seasons Rockery: A mountain has many seasons, and a season is in many mountains
Chinese freehand brushwork is committed to integrating thousands of weather in a square inch. A long scroll of the four seasons is also condensed into an eternal real scene by Ge Garden. 'Spring mountain is light and like a smile, summer mountain is green and like a drop, autumn mountain is clear and like makeup, winter mountain is bleak and like sleep', and the winter and spring mountains are separated by a wall. Through the hole in the west wall of the winter mountain, you can glimpse the stalagmites at the entrance of the garden outside - winter is here, will spring be far away?
Admiring the autumn mountain in autumn is just right: the craftsman cleverly borrows the texture and unique color of the newly built yellow stone, and constructs a rugged and changeable three-dimensional landscape in the square inch of the world. Standing on the Buddha Yun Pavilion on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the autumn mountain below, and you can look far away to the Slender West Lake to the north. The mountain is also planted with ancient cypresses, red maples and other colorful and angular plants, which are commensurate with the handsome mountain body, making this live 'Autumn Mountain Sunset' picture always new.
Baoshan Building: Don't go out and the sky is spring, and the dust horses are all resting
The slender Baoshan Building embraces the summer and autumn mountains with a long corridor, hence the name. The garden has the saying of 'mustard sumeru' and 'pot middle world', and the title of Baoshan Building 'Pot Sky from Spring' also means to see the big from the small. It is like a time and space tunnel, collecting spring, summer, autumn and winter, heaven and earth, day and moon: climbing the building and looking, you can overlook the clear pool and mountain stone flowers and trees under the building, as far as the entrance of the spring mountain; to the north, you can look far away. Yangzhou city scenery, hear the voices of people in the market; walking along the long corridor in the building, there are exquisite and transparent summer and majestic and heavy autumn within a hundred steps.
Wan Bamboo Garden: The green shadow shakes the sky and the blue clouds are low, and the bamboo dances with the wind and the rhyme is long
Bamboo is the spirit of Ge Garden. In Wan Bamboo Garden, there are now more than 60 kinds of ornamental bamboo and more than 20,000 poles. There is a pavilion in the depths of the bamboo forest, named after Wang Wei's poem 'Bamboo Pavilion'. The couplet in the pavilion 'For the heavy frost festival, can be empty to respond to the heart of things' also reflects Huang Zhiyun's love for the bamboo's spirit. Standing in the hexagonal pavilion surrounded by bamboo trees on all sides, waiting for the breeze to pass through the bamboo tips, the bamboo shadows swaying, listening to the clear and unique sound of the bamboo leaves, I can't help but think: when the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest' in the Wei and Jin Dynasties lived under the bamboo and sang happily, Is it so comfortable and hearty?
'Spring, summer, autumn and winter mountain light is different, the wind is clear and the dew bamboo shadow is colorful', come to Ge Garden in autumn, you can enjoy the fragrant osmanthus, golden ginkgo, and fiery maple's strong autumn rhyme at the same time.
📍'Ge Garden': No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District
💰Tickets: 30r
Ge Garden
As the saying goes: Fireworks in March Yangzhou-Yangzhou one-day tour can also be very enjoyable
Yangzhou University
weekend suddenly thought of going to Yangzhou for a circle, thinking about the book, finished the high-speed rail ticket, and went down The high-speed train took a taxi to Yangzhou University. There was no one on the weekend campus. The spring flowers are very suitable for taking pictures. There are many colleges in the park. One of the colleges is super retro. It feels like the Republic of China. After entering, I also saw the lab, which is super retro. The kind of bathroom, the old-fashioned look, the mirror is a simple and simple glass to open a piece, attached to the wall, very atmosphere.
Liu Xie Kee noodle restaurant (now is the net red noodle restaurant)
Walk over Yangzhou University to go to lunch, the small supermarket on the road encounters the net red yogurt, eats chocolate sorbet, through the heart When I went to the fat-intestine noodle shop recommended by my friend, the fat intestines seemed to be cleaned very cleanly. In fact, I still like to eat the fat meat inside. I bite the skin and the fat oil in the mouth to give each other their own charm, which is wonderful. Their crab yellow meatballs are also one of the characteristics. A gentle crab yellow juice can not help but flow out, the ball is elastic and chewy, the noodle shop is not big, and it is full of people.
Park
I don't like the bustling downtown, I am going to go to the park in the afternoon for a circle, a garden-world cultural heritage, there are green bamboos, come back to view the information, the original The owner of the garden especially likes bamboo, and the name of the garden is also bamboo.
The garden is filled with large pieces of emerald green bamboo. Walking inside is a happy and happy couple. A couple of photographers taking pictures of the Republic of China, photographers all kinds of plans, it seems that the knowledgeable old man took the SLR and carefully studied it carefully. The grandmother of the child, the couple walks.
Dessert Shop
The garden is coming out for a walk, passing through a regular underground corridor, and the outside world, outside the sun, the bottom of the heart is cool.
I met a private dessert shop for a while, a couple opened together, the decoration style is simple, there is no complicated color, the overall white, the wall is full of paintings, sofa cotton, bookcase wood, balcony It is covered with green climbing plants, spider plants, etc., and has a dining table with a layer of misty white gauze, which is separated from the outside guests by a low-key, two floors upstairs and downstairs.
Eat dessert, read the book, sort out the photos, prepare for the resurrection to eat hot pot
Eight-flag old Beijing hot pot
downtown walked a circle, feeling Yangzhou whole The city is very clean, the city is small but very comfortable, there is a street, and many people who ride to work feel very retro.
Selected an old Beijing copper pot hot pot, eating sesame sauce, copper pot hot pot and Sichuan flavor hot pot is different, its soul is meat and sesame sauce, once the meat is not good, it is found in minutes, because it is clear soup, There are no hidden components.
Iron skewer kebabs are delicious, sprinkled with cumin chili powder is perfect
waiter's incomparable enthusiasm, feeling the kind of illusion in Beijing.
West Lake
hot pot after the end and went to the thin West Lake strolled a circle, the day is a bit dark, the camera did not take any photos, a very relaxing day, the high-speed rail back to Nanjing, the era The progress can make it a wonderful day for you to travel to and from a city.
The bamboo and rocks of Ge Garden in Yangzhou
Ge Garden in Yangzhou, a private residence of a salt merchant, excels with bamboo and rocks, using them to construct spaces with grandeur and boldness. The difference between Yangzhou and Suzhou gardens lies in their similar forms but distinct spirits, also known as the 'Wumen' and 'Yang style', which is quite interesting.
Geyuan Garden in Yangzhou, Jiangsu | Only the Chinese could create such a romantic garden!
Geyuan Garden, one of the four famous gardens in China.
Spring Mountain smiles, Summer Mountain intoxicates, Autumn Mountain dresses up, and Winter Mountain sleeps. Having experienced all four seasons, it's like a dream of past and present lives.
Geyuan Garden is renowned for its spring, summer, autumn, and winter scenes, presenting extraordinary landscape paintings everywhere.
🌟Highlights:
1️⃣ Bamboo Garden🎋: There are more than 60 different types of bamboo, including tortoise-shell bamboo, spotted bamboo, bitter bamboo, gold-inlaid jade bamboo, jade-inlaid gold bamboo, filial piety bamboo, ground-covering bamboo, and countless others.
2️⃣ Four Seasons Rockery🪨: Geyuan Garden is famous for its rockery art. The spring, summer, autumn, and winter rockeries made of bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellow stones, and Xuan stones integrate the principles of garden design with the philosophy of landscape painting, and are hailed by the garden master Mr. Chen Congzhou as a 'domestic rarity'.
🟢 Spring Mountain: The bamboo shoot stones are likened to bamboo shoots breaking through the soil after the rain, full of vitality
🔴 Summer Mountain: The Taihu stones simulate the landscape during a downpour, with ponds full of green grass and schools of fish, creating a wonderful atmosphere
🟡 Autumn Mountain: Yellow stones and maple trees🍁 represent autumn, making one instantly feel the autumn breeze blowing
🔵 Winter Mountain: Xuan stones sparkle in the sunlight✨, resembling a snowy landscape
3️⃣ Southern Residence🏠: Facing south with a courtyard layout, it is a traditional Ming and Qing dynasty architecture. The nanmu hall is particularly rare. 'Qingmei Tang' and 'Qingsong Tang' are where the master's family works and lives, while 'Hanxue Tang' is where the children study.
❇️ Tour Route: North Gate➡️Bamboo Garden➡️Bamboo West Spot➡️Congshu Building➡️Southern Mansion➡️Four Seasons Rockery (Spring Mountain)➡️Yiyu Pavilion➡️Summer Mountain➡️Baoshan Building➡️Autumn Mountain➡️Winter Mountain➡️South Gate
📌Little Tips:
1. Geyuan Garden is very exquisite, take your time to feel the charm of the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River
2. The garden is surrounded by plants and waterside pavilions, watch out for mosquitoes!
📍Detailed Address: No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province
🚗Transportation Tips: Take the bus【Tourist Line 1/Tourist Line 3】to【Geyuan Garden】(North Gate) stop; if you are strolling on Dongguan Street, you can directly enter from Geyuan Garden (South Gate).
🕙Opening Hours: 07:30——17:30
💰Ticket Price: Off-season 30r, peak season 45r (discounted tickets for the elderly and children)
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This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
A famous Chinese private garden
The garden was easy to get inside with the ticket buying process being very quiet and welcoming. There is also lots of parking nearby.
Inside the garden there is lots to explore. I like how much of the building there is to explore with rooms to show off the most recent residents living conditions. You can see the masters bedrooms and study room alongside some of the rooms built for entertaining.
The garden was a private residence and garden from the late Qing dynasty for the He family. There are lots of signs around the museum which are bilingual. There is also a lot of staff dressed up in traditional costume which adds to the experience.
We enjoyed a 2 hour visit on a weekend winter and it was very quiet.#
Royal China-western garden, yangzhou
📍 Attractions -
Mainly divided as 3 attractions. The rear garden, the residential courtyard and a rock Grotto. Very beautiful photographic location. Also have pictures of Royal Family. 🎋🌿
📍 Hotels -
We stayed in Yitel hotel. Which is walkable distance from this attraction. The hotel was very neat and clean. 🏨
📍 Shopping -
After exit a long shopping area in a traditional way with lot of traditional foods, decor, foot massage etc. 🥘🍱👒
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It's not that Suzhou is unaffordable, but Yangzhou offers better value for money
"A friend bids farewell at the Yellow Crane Tower, amidst the fireworks of March, he descends upon Yangzhou", the Yangzhou that follows is a myriad of springtime splendor and scenic beauty, with the tulips of Slender West Lake, the magnolias of He Garden, and the pear blossoms of Tangli Bay all serving as romantic symbols of the city...
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✅ Tourist Guide:
1️⃣ Dongguan Street
This is the most representative historic street in Yangzhou. As the gathering place for salt merchants in the past, it has a history of over 1000 years. The elegant and beautiful buildings line both sides of the ancient street. Strolling along the quaint street, amidst the bustling crowd, one can learn about Yangzhou's canal culture and salt merchant culture, and feel the charm of the historic street.
2️⃣ Slender West Lake
As a famous attraction in Yangzhou, Slender West Lake is a representative of the landscape gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, known as "the best garden under heaven" for its natural beauty. In spring, the long embankment of Slender West Lake is adorned with peach and willow greenery, and the tulips in April are not to be missed.
3️⃣ Wenchang Pavilion
One of Yangzhou's landmarks, Wenchang Pavilion, was once the Kui Xing Tower of Yangzhou Prefecture School, built during the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty. The base is octagonal, and the pavilion is exquisitely crafted. Moreover, the night view here is also beautiful, making it a great spot for photography.
4️⃣ Daming Temple
One of the eight ancient temples in Yangzhou, Daming Temple has a profound heritage. Locals say that prayers here are very effective. Climbing up the Qiling Pagoda, one can overlook Slender West Lake and take in the beautiful scenery of Yangzhou.
5️⃣ He Garden
Praised as "the finest garden of the late Qing dynasty", He Garden is a classical Chinese garden architecture that was built in the middle of the Qing dynasty. The garden layout is exquisite, combining Chinese and Western architectural styles, with both late Qing and Republic of China elements. Walking through the winding paths of the garden, one can enjoy a tranquil and elegant atmosphere, and the blooming of six white magnolias in spring is a sight to behold.
6️⃣ Grand Canal Museum
The Grand Canal Museum of China: Located on the banks of the ancient canal, the Grand Canal Museum of China boasts a beautifully designed exterior and an imposing presence. Inside, it records the development of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with many stunning exhibits that recreate the life scenes along the canal from ancient times to the present. For friends who like archaeology and history, it's worth a detailed visit.
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🥢 Food Recommendations: When in Yangzhou, you must try the local breakfast tea. A common choice among local breakfast tea patrons is hot dry silk, accompanied by a cup of Lu'an Melon Seed tea, which can be enjoyed for an entire morning. Of course, the Three Ding Bao, Yangchun noodles, and crab roe soup dumplings are also good.
🏠 Accommodation Recommendations: It is suggested to stay near Dongguan Street, where the scenic spots are not far away, and there are plenty of dining options.
🚇 Transportation:
Plane: Yangzhou Taizhou International Airport, with flights to many cities in China
Train: Yangzhou Station and Yangzhou East Station, you can choose according to your itinerary
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This is Yangzhou.
It's best to come to Yangzhou on weekdays, otherwise the weekend experience may not be as good. The main purpose of visiting Yangzhou is to eat and play. In the morning, arrange to have morning tea. We recommend the Garden Teahouse or Ye Chun on Yanfu Road (after eating, you can take a walk nearby, there are sightseeing boats and the Tianci Zen Temple). If you want something more upscale, you can go to Quyuan for morning tea, which is right next to Shouxihu Lake. For lunch or dinner, you can find a restaurant to try Huaiyang cuisine. We recommend Yangzhou Banquet, Pingshan Banquet, Yangzhou Lion Tower, Xishi Tower, etc. As for places to visit, start with Daming Temple, then go to Shouxihu Lake, Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, He Garden. Yangzhou is a place for slow living, so take your time to savor it.
Strolling through Daming Temple to admire the cherry blossoms
Setting off from the north gate of Slender West Lake, it's a quick journey to Daming Temple, the foremost temple in Eastern Huai.
The incense burns brightly, and the devout come to pray. Pay homage to Master Jianzhen, gaze upon the Qiling Pagoda, and take a look at the relics of the Fifth Spring in the world. Have a pleasant time.
Leaving Daming Temple and heading north, you'll reach the bustling Jianzhen Avenue, where white cherry blossoms bloom in abundance, beautiful and fragrant. It's a stroke of 'cherry' good fortune.
In March, the cherry blossoms are in bloom; Yangzhou is really fun to visit.
The Millennium Ancient Temple | Daming Temple in Yangzhou
Daming Temple, located on the middle peak of Shugang in the northwest suburbs of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was named for its initial construction during the Daming years of Emperor Xiaowu of the Southern Song Dynasty (457-464 AD). Over the past 1500 years, the temple's name has undergone many changes, and the temple we see now was built during the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, when Master Jianzhen served as the abbot of Daming Temple, he traveled to Japan to teach Buddhist scriptures and Chinese culture, making Daming Temple an important ancient temple in the history of Sino-Japanese Buddhist and cultural relations.
The Daming Temple is divided into three parts: the central part is the main temple architecture, the eastern part is the Qiling Pagoda, and the western part is the garden-style backyard. The main temple buildings in the central area of the scenic spot are divided into three routes running from south to north. Along the central axis from south to north are the archway, the mountain gate, and the Mahavira Hall. The western route mainly features Ouyang Xiu; to the south is the Pingshan Hall built by Ouyang Xiu when he was the governor of Yangzhou, and to the north is the Gulin Hall built by Su Dongpo when he held the same position. Further north is the Jianzhen Memorial Hall, with the Sutra Depository Tower to its east. The Qiling Pagoda in the eastern part was originally built by Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty to celebrate his birthday. The pagoda we see now is a reconstruction of the Sui Dynasty's pagoda, with 9 stories, housing Buddhist relics and a nanmu Buddha pagoda inside. Visitors can climb to the top of the pagoda to overlook the entire Daming Temple and gaze into the distance at the Slender West Lake.
The Jianzhen Memorial Hall is the most important building in Daming Temple. Jianzhen traveled to Japan six times, bringing Chinese Buddhism and culture to Japan. He presided over the construction of the Toshodai-ji in Nara, Japan, and eventually passed away there. The Jianzhen Memorial Hall was built to mimic the style of Toshodai-ji.
📍Detailed address:
No. 8, Pingshan Hall East Road, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province
🚉Transportation strategy:
{Get on at Yangzhou Railway Station}, take bus route You 1 to Daming Temple Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
{Get on at Yangzhou East High-speed Railway Station}, take bus route You 3 to Pingshan Hall Ecological Parking Lot Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
{Get on at Jiangdu Railway Station}, take bus route 99 to Wanfuzha East Station, transfer to bus route You 3 to Pingshan Hall Ecological Parking Lot Station, walk for 5 minutes to reach.
🕙Business hours:
08:00-16:30
Ticket price: 45 yuan
Fireworks in March, it's time to visit Yangzhou, here's a 2-day 1-night travel guide
Yangzhou 2 Days 1 Night Travel Guide✨ Yangzhou·Jiangsu
🚗 **Transportation:**
- 🚄 High-speed train: Arrive at Yangzhou Station or Yangzhou East Station, then take a taxi or bus to the hotel.
- ✈️ Airplane: Arrive at Yangzhou Taizhou Airport, take the airport shuttle or taxi to the hotel.
- 🚘 Self-driving: Self-driving tour is recommended for a better experience.
🏨 **Accommodation Suggestions:**
- 🚋 Location: Choose hotels near Dongguan Street or Wenchang Pavilion for easy access to Slender West Lake, Ge Garden, and restaurants.
- 🍲 Food Recommendations: Yangzhou fried rice, Yangzhou dry silk, crab roe soup dumplings, braised lion's head, Wensi tofu, shadow beef, Yangda yogurt.
🚶 **Two-Day Tour Itinerary:**
- **Day1:** Slender West Lake -> Daming Temple -> Gulin Academy -> Wenchang Pavilion -> Grand Canal
- **Day2:** Ge Garden -> Dadongmen Street -> Caiyi Street -> Dongguan Street -> He Garden -> Grand Canal Museum
📷 **Recommended Photo Spots:**
- 🔺 He Garden: A private garden with a mix of Republican-era style and Sino-Western architectural features.
- 🔺 Dongguan Street: The historic district of old Yangzhou, with charming night views.
- 🔺 Slender West Lake: One of the representatives of southern Chinese gardens, as renowned as the West Lake.
- 🔺 Daming Temple: A Buddhist temple with cultural relics and garden scenery.
- 🔺 Grand Canal Museum: Showcases the history and culture of the Grand Canal.
- 🔺 Wenchang Pavilion: A landmark of Yangzhou, close to Siwang Pavilion.
- 🔺 Caiyi Street: An old street from the Ming and Qing dynasties, lined with various snack shops and restaurants.
- 🔺 Ge Garden: A garden known for its bamboo and rockery, with unique features.
- 🔺 Pishi Street: Once a leather goods street, now has many photo spots and specialty coffee shops.
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Yangzhou | 3 Days 2 Nights Travel Guide: The Most Authentic Experience to Avoid Pitfalls
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For a detailed graphic version of the Yangzhou travel guide, you can check out my previous videos.
📍Accommodation:
First choice is near Wenchang Pavilion, close to Dongguan Street, Ge Garden, and He Garden.
Economy hotels cost about five to six hundred during holidays.
However, if the hotel is next to Dongguan Street, it's recommended to take a taxi on the adjacent main road to avoid traffic jams.
🚗Transportation:
Mainly walking and taking taxis. Before going, I heard that the drivers' service attitude was not good, but in reality, all I met were fine, and I never encountered a situation where I couldn't get a taxi. However, taxi fares are more expensive than I thought, only slightly cheaper than Shanghai. When I went to play in the neighboring town of Zhenjiang, I found the taxi fares to be very cheap.
🍚Food:
Jiangjiaqiao:
Avoid this place, it's particularly bad in my opinion, with a strong taste of rapeseed oil overpowering the freshness of the meat, and the noodles are not chewy, but it's very cheap.
Xiao Zhun Shi:
Four dishes for over 200, lion's head meatballs and dry silk are mediocre, Yangzhou fried rice is dry and tasteless, crab tofu only has the taste of rapeseed oil.
Yechun:
Average, not bad but nothing surprising.
Fuyu Dessert:
An internet-famous shop, just tastes like normal dessert, mainly good for taking pictures.
7 Eat 8 Bar:
Not bad, on the pricier side, four dishes for 382, scallion roasted opium fish is delicious, Yangzhou fried rice is also good.
Maybe I didn't do my homework on food this time, tasty Yangzhou dishes are either hard to find or expensive.
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Grand Canal Museum:
A must-visit, very enjoyable, interesting, even a quick visit takes 4 hours, it can get very hot with many people, wear light clothing, not recommended for those with particularly poor physical strength.
Ge Garden:
Ticket price 48 yuan.
The garden is more beautiful than the residence, which is more common in large households, but it has many rooms.
He Garden:
Ticket price 48 yuan
Opposite to Ge Garden, the residence is more attractive than the garden, perhaps because I went when nothing was blooming, but the residence is indeed very distinctive, a blend of Chinese and Western styles.
Before visiting Ge Garden and He Garden, it's best to learn some history and anecdotes, and if possible, get a guide, you can finish the tour in under an hour.
Slender West Lake:
Ticket price 100 yuan
Recommended to enter from the south gate and exit from the north gate, go in the afternoon to catch the sunset, and if willing, wait for the night view.
To save time and energy, take a boat after entering the south gate, electric boat 50 per person, about 15 minutes, get off at the 24 Bridge and walk back, exit from the south gate
Pishi Street:
An internet-famous street, suitable for girls who like to take photos and check-in.
Caiyi Street, Dongguan Street:
I'm not very interested in such commercial streets, too many people, feels messy, not recommended to spend too much time browsing
Wenchang Pavilion, Siwang Pavilion:
Just take a glance while taking a taxi or when passing by nearby, they are just landmark buildings
🌟Summary:
Still, as Li Bai said, 'to experience the fireworks in March in Yangzhou,' when the flowers haven't bloomed, Yangzhou always seems to lack something. Also, there are indeed many people, and the cost of living is not cheap. There's a high chance of hitting a bad Huaiyang cuisine restaurant, so do more homework before going.
In Yangzhou, I encountered the Potala Palace
【The Potala Palace Special Exhibition at the China Grand Canal Museum】Although I have visited the Potala Palace twice, the special exhibition held by the Grand Canal Museum and the Potala Palace Administration is still worth seeing. In fact, visiting the Potala Palace is quite similar to visiting the Forbidden City; the main focus is on the architecture, as well as the furnishings and decorations inside the halls. Most of the collections are not on display. This special exhibition at the Grand Canal Museum is considered to have brought together many rare treasures that are seldom seen, and many cultural relics that you wouldn't be able to see at the Potala Palace itself.
The Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou is so magnificent
It is recommended that one must visit the museum at least once in a lifetime.
I saw the Grand Canal Museum in the Southern Airlines magazine
and have been longing to visit and see its beauty.
It's really super huge; you can stroll around for a whole day.
My feet were tired from all the walking.
The Grand Canal Museum has moved the entire riverbed over.
It displays riverbeds from different periods that have been moved from Henan.
It's truly spectacular.
Yangzhou One-Day Tour Guide, Live Experience! Slender West Lake/Geyuan Garden/Grand Canal
Before the lunar March arrives, Yangzhou is already filled with the colors of spring. Magnolias, plum blossoms, peach blossoms, pear blossoms, they cover the trees and the city, and you can never take enough photos. The willow trees are freshly green, at their most beautiful moment. Photos taken on: March 19th
One-day highlights: Grand Canal Museum - Dongguan Street/Geyuan Garden - Slender West Lake - Grand Canal Night Cruise
🎈Arrive at the Grand Canal Museum before 9 am, the museum opens at 9. It's quite large, with majestic architecture, and mainly three exhibition halls inside, which are history, boats, and an antique market street. It's very crowded, so you must book in advance (free of charge). Be sure to go early, we left at 10:20 and it was already very, very crowded. It takes about 1-2 hours to walk around and take pictures.
🎈After leaving the museum, take a taxi to Dongguan Street. This street is so-so, full of small shops. Have some snacks here and head straight to Geyuan Garden (located on Dongguan Street)
🎈Geyuan Garden: The ticket is 48 yuan. Inside, the bamboo forest and garden are beautiful, with a stunning magnolia tree. About 1 hour should suffice here.
🎈Slender West Lake: The daytime ticket is 100 yuan. Walk from Geyuan Garden to the south gate of Slender West Lake. The lake is extremely beautiful at this time, stay as long as you wish to enjoy the scenery. We entered from the south gate, walked north to the lake's plum grove, and exited from the west gate. It took about 2.5 hours, and there was still a large area we didn't get to, too tired to walk.
🎈Night Cruise on the Grand Canal: After exiting the west gate, go back to the hotel for a rest (Fairfield by Marriott, right across from the west gate). Then take a taxi to Dongguan Ancient Ferry. There are many food options here, have dinner, and then you can take a boat for a night cruise. We don't like boat rides, so we just walked along the riverbanks, enjoying the night view, which was also very nice.
Photos: 2-10 Slender West Lake. 11-14 Geyuan Garden. 15-18 Grand Canal Museum
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