Zhejiang Province

Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Travel to China--háng zhōu hú qìng yú táng zhōng yào bó wù guǎn 杭州胡庆余堂中药博物馆 The Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the only state-level professional Chinese medicine museum in the country. It is seated at the foot of Wu Hill in Han...
Nanxun Ancient Town

Travel to China--nán xún gǔ zhèn 南浔古镇 Located on the Hangjiahu (Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou) Plain of the Yangtze River Delta, to the east of Huzhou City in northern Zhejiang Province and adjacent to Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province, Nanxun Ancient Town once was the richest among the s...
"Walkin’ With Buddha" at Ningbo’s Temples

Ningbo is a city with a long history, and as such, there are a bunch of really cool ancient buildings to check out if you find yourself in the area for a few days. The city-proper has some interesting sights (see the first entry), but for the real "goods" you are going to have to travel out of t...
Wuzhen

Chinese people say that unless you visit the Great Wall then you haven't been to China. For any visit south of the Yangtze River; one place not to be missed is the town of Wuzhen.Located in the centre of the six ancient towns south of Yangtze River, 17 kilometres (10.56 miles) north of the city of T...
Lin'an mountain flowers everywhere

神(shén) 龙(lóng) 川(chuān) lín ān shì shì cháng jiāng sān jiǎo zhōu nán duān de yì kē lǜ sè míng zhū ，临安市是长江三角洲南端的一颗绿色明珠， wèi yú zhè jiāng shěng xī běi bù ， dōng lín háng zhōu shì yú háng qū 。位于浙...
Mount Putuo

Mt. Putuoshan lies to the east of Zhoushan City. Zhoushan City is situated on Zhoushan Island that in turn gives its name to a group of some four hundred small islands off the east coast of China in Zhejiang Province. These islands are in fact the peaks of submerged mountains and so rise steeply fro...
Xitang

Xitang is a famous town with thousands of years of history, lying in Jiashan County in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. It dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC) and the Warring States Period (476 BC-221 BC). Xitang was a place of strategic importance on the boundary of the Wu a...
Ling Yin Temple

You will find Ling Yin Temple in a long, narrow valley between Fei Lai Feng (Peak flown from Afar) and North Peak to the northwest of the West Lake at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. The temple is without doubt a premier showpiece in the West Lake environs and is notable also as one of the ten mo...