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苏杭地区的风景以园林和水乡古镇为最，“上有天堂、下有苏杭”，苏杭如今也成为了网红旅游城市，刚跟朋友一起去玩了5天回来，看诗情画意，春有繁花，夏有荷塘，秋有银杏，冬有雪景。在苏州，乌篷船，听雨眠，一蓑江南烟雨，下面我就分享一下我去苏杭的经验和攻略大家参考参考。 杭州必去景点 【杭州景区】杭州西湖、杭州宋城、西塘、乌镇、千岛湖等 【苏州景区】苏州园林、周庄古镇 、太湖、七里山塘 、寒山寺等 day1 抵达杭州 - 接站 -游玩湖州 - 游玩渔人码头 - 游玩太湖古镇（住湖州 免费升级一晚5星级酒店），开启江南夜生活。 我们是从武汉出发，飞机两个多小时到杭州萧山国际机场，一出站就看到提前预约的 晶晶已经在等我了，然后出发湖州，游览湖州最美夜景。 湖州【渔人码头】看最美落日余晖，中国首家水上七星酒店，【太湖古镇】景区内自然风光美不胜收，泛光夜景气势磅礴🌇晚上观看大型演艺节目（太湖龙之梦千古情）。 day2 南浔~西塘 第二天开始杭州周边游，（南浔-西塘）出发前往江南最富有小镇南浔 南浔享有“中国湖笔之都”- 下午西塘 - 感受最原生态的江南人文特色，《碟中谍》拍摄地 是中国最具水乡魅力的影视基地（住西塘水乡客栈 【含早中餐】） day3 杭州西湖-雷峰塔-苏堤 早餐后，西塘赴杭州 - 漫步西湖（赠西湖游船）观西湖十景-雷峰塔-三潭印月-雷峰夕照-曲院风荷等 后游【漫步苏提】，【花港观鱼】（住杭州四星酒店 【含早中餐】）。 说点什么呢？就说游玩体验感受吧： 网红打卡景点、小众景点都玩到了，我们是非常满意的，你可以看看有没有你想要去的景点
Welcome to China Unhurried, and why it exists
If you are reading this, you are probably thinking about a trip to China. Or you have just landed and something is not working. Either way, welcome. This is the first post on the site, so it seems right to say what the place is for. ## The trouble is rarely the country Ask people what went wrong on their first visit to China and the answers are strangely alike. It is almost never the sights, the food or the people. It is the small practical things, and they tend to arrive all at once on day one. * **The wallet.** China runs on Alipay and WeChat Pay. Cash works in theory, but the taxi driver, the noodle shop and the metro gate all expect a phone. If you did not set a wallet up before you flew, the first hour is a scramble. * **The internet.** Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and a good part of the web do not load on Chinese networks. The maps you rely on at home go blank. People discover this at the airport, which is the worst possible place. * **The hotel.** Not every hotel is allowed to take foreign guests, and the booking site does not always tell you. Being turned away at midnight is a rite of passage nobody needs. * **The train.** High-speed rail is the best way to see the country. Buying a ticket with a foreign passport used to be an ordeal, and although it is easier now, the steps are still not obvious. * **The language.** Little English is spoken outside big hotels. That is fine, and part of the charm, but you need a couple of tools and a way to show an address to a driver. * **The rules.** Visa-free entry has been extended to a long list of countries, then changed, then changed again. A blog post from two years ago may be confidently wrong. None of this is hard once you know. All of it is hard when you find out on the spot. ## Why we made this Most of what you find online about visiting China is one of three things: a list of ten places you must see, a forum thread from 2019, or a sales page. The practical answers exist, but they are scattered, dated, and written for people who already know the vocabulary. We wanted one place that does the boring parts properly. Six guides cover what actually trips people up: [visas and entry](/guides/visas-and-entry), [paying](/guides/paying-in-china), [staying online](/guides/staying-online), [getting around](/guides/getting-around), [where to stay](/guides/where-to-stay) and [getting by in Chinese](/guides/getting-by-in-chinese). Every guide shows the month it was last checked, because on this subject a stale answer is worse than none. When something changes, we say so at the top, not in a footnote. Then there are the cities. Every place on the site carries its Chinese name, and every city page has a card in large characters that you can hold up to a taxi driver. The site is independent: no tourism board, no agency, no commissions. We recommend an app because it works, and we will tell you when it stops working. ## Why "unhurried" Because the usual itinerary is part of the problem. Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai in eight days is a lot of railway stations and not much China. Pick fewer cities. Stay a third night. Order the second pot of tea. The country is kindest to people who slow down, and slowing down happens to be cheaper too. ## What we would like from you A site like this is only as good as the reports coming back from the road. If a guide worked for you, say so at the bottom of the page. If something has changed, say that even more loudly. Ask a question in the community and someone who was there last week will probably answer. If you were there last week, please be that someone. And if you know which dates you will be in a city, mark them. You might find company for dinner. That is all. Take China slowly. We are glad you are here.