Hang Zhou- Heaven On Earth Day Tour (Private tour)

The West Lake has influenced poets and painters throughout the ages for its natural beauty and historical relics, and it has been among the most important sources of inspiration for Chinese garden designers, as evidenced by the impact it had on various Chinese classical gardens. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, and was described to have "influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries."

Flower Harbor (Huagang) Park is adjacent to Su Causeway consisting of Red Fish Pool, Peony Garden, Flower Garden, widespread lawns and woods, occupying an area of 21 hectares.

Initially, the park was a small private garden built and owned by Lu Yunsheng, an imperial official of the South Song Dynasty. The garden was located near the Flower Home Hill. Inside the park was a fishpond and a stream nearby was ushered into the pond for raising goldfish.

Later the private garden began to gain a big fame in Hangzhou as Flower Harbor and became a recreation resort for viewing goldfishes. Painters and poets vied each other for depicting the garden in their inspirational artworks. In the Qing Dynasty, the park was relocated in today's place, much nearer to the West Lake.

Guo Garden Villa--“The terrace pavilion is built with water around, its elegance something of Wangshi in Wumen, and its ancient taste toping among gardens under the sun. In this small plot, essences of the gardening art come together, all in a distinctive order, all arresting man’s rumination.”

Those vermilion walls and dark green tiles over crouching Dragon Bridge, as well as the carved stone doors concealing in the aged woods and shadows, are as if always flowing with vicissitudes of thousand of years. What remains unchanged, is the artistic lingering tastes in the south of Yangtze River, where boasts high mountains and clear waters. No one would know: would the Fengyang shire king in the great Tang Dynasty, who was tired of wars battles, leave the vermilions walls and green tiles for the moment and come here delightedly to sing poems and take a stroll?

This building displays the history of tea, and includes sections on tea implements and tea customs. The Tea History Hall begins with a section on Lu Yu (733-804), a Tang-dynasty figure who is revered as a tea saint and who excelled in the Way of lea. A chronology of tea then systematically gives the development of tea in China, from Yunnan trees, to seeds, to development of the industry. A following hall displays all kinds of tea-processing methods that result in green tea, black tea, white tea, flower tea, pressed tea, Ulong tea and so on. These are accompanied by photographs from tea-growing regions of China.

Lies on the West Lake Scenic Area, Hangzhou, China, Meijiawu has long been well-known for its Longjing (Dragon Well) Tea tradition. Surrounded by green mountains and the fragrance of tea, the place makes you feel the clean countryside air and retreat from the crowded and noisy urban areas.

The river is also the southern terminal of the ancient Grand Canal that links five major rivers in China from north to south, enabling traffic north to Beijing from Hangzhou via the Canal.

The Qiantang was previously known under the names Zhe River, Luocha River, or Zhi River. It was re-named "Qiantang" (literally "Qian's pond") in honour of the kings of Wuyue, whose extensive hydro-engineering schemes in large part ensured the prosperity of the region in later centuries.