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In autumn, rent a boat at Huagang Guanyu and row slowly along Su Causeway, avoiding the midday crowd.

Start at Meijiawu tea fields and hike through Jiuxi Eighteen Creeks to the Qiantang River, ideal for an autumn half-day trip.

From late September to October osmanthus blooms around West Lake; a morning walk along Beishan Road is recommended.

3 attractions

A timeless landscape of pagodas, causeways and misty hills that has inspired Chinese poetry for centuries.

A thousand-year-old water town famed for its covered rain corridors, numerous bridges and narrow lanes.

A classic Jiangnan water town whose east and west districts preserve Ming and Qing houses, stone bridges and canals.