Travel from Xuzhou to Zhouzhuang

Zhouzhuang, located in the southeast of Suzhou and southwest of Kunshan, has the reputation of "the first water town in China". Zhouzhuang is about 45 kilometers away from Suzhou city and 0/00 kilometers away from Shanghai/KLOC. There are Shanghai Hongqiao and Pudong, and there is Xiaoshan International Airport nearby, among which Hongqiao is the closest (about 90 kilometers away from Zhouzhuang), and Pudong and Xiaoshan International Airport are similar (150 kilometers). There is no train in Zhouzhuang, and there is no direct highway for the time being. From Shanghai-Suzhou Expressway and Sujiahang Expressway, you need to take the ordinary expressway.

Famous scenic spots include: APEC Meeting Boat Workshop (Zhouzhuangfang), Quanfu Lecture Hall, Shenting, Shuangqiao, Milou, Nanhu and Zhang Ting.

Tickets:

One-day tour of Zhouzhuang Scenic Area:

Including Shenting, Shuangqiao and Wenhua Street 16 scenic spots (08:00- 16:00) 100 yuan.

Night tour in Zhouzhuang Scenic Area:

80 yuan includes water tour (except winter), love of Shuangqiao, nostalgia of Zhang Ting, night flooding of Fuan Bridge, and feeling the old street (16: 00-21:00); (2 1:00-7:00) No admission.

Ticket price description: 20% discount for college students' groups (10 or more), 50% discount for students' groups below senior high school (including senior high school), 50% discount for seniors over 60 years old with valid certificates and 50% discount for disabled people with disability certificates. 1. 1 ~ 65438.

Friendly reminder: If the rickshaw driver says he can take you into town for free, don't believe it, because even if you say so, you won't be able to enter any small scenic spots in town.

Zhouzhuang accommodation

Zhouzhuang is near Shanghai and Suzhou. Visitors can go back and forth on the same day, but it is best to stay for one night to fully appreciate the ancient charm and customs. The local accommodation facilities are relatively complete. If you spend the night in the ancient town, you can choose a room by the river and the bridge, which is unique. In the tourist season, it is recommended to book a room at a large-scale booking website with a good reputation (such as Freetravel website:/), which is generally 20-70% off the retail price. Online booking does not require any cash in advance, as long as you arrive at the front desk of the inn on time and pay with the card number or order number registered for free just now. For Zhouzhuang self-help tour, booking a room in advance has at least three advantages: the inn or hotel provided by the above website is formal, safe and hygienic, and the price is cheaper than direct check-in. After arriving in Zhouzhuang, you don't have to worry about the accommodation problem that night, and you can enjoy the environment of "small bridges and flowing water" that night!

Zhouzhuang gourmet

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan became the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, and specially invited famous chefs to cook all kinds of delicacies, nicknamed "three thousand family banquets". Its banquet pays attention to seasonality, exquisite selection of materials, and excellent color, fragrance, taste and shape. The specialties are: Wansanti, Sanwei Tangyuan, steamed mandarin fish, steamed eel tube, water shield bass soup, ginger snail, oil-brewed meat, braised pork with white leaves, braised bean curd, stir-fried lotus root and so on. You can try the "Three Thousand Family Banquets" at Shenting Restaurant. Located on the edge of Fuan Bridge and Shenting. So far, it retains the Ming and Qing styles, elegant and chic, and is a restaurant with a local style. In Zhouzhuang, a water town, rare aquatic products can be found all the time. Among them, the most famous are the "three treasures in the river": perch, white clam and whitebait. Zhouzhuang also produces eels, and it is well known that "cooked eels compete for ginseng". In addition, there are soft-shelled turtles, river shrimps and so on.

Zhouzhuang is not only delicious, but also the pickled amaranth and green ball, which are special products of Jiangnan, and are deeply loved by tourists. Countless cakes and cooked food are like flower markets that are unbeaten in four seasons: cushion cakes, 3,000 cakes (sesame cakes, peanut cakes, walnut cakes, salt and pepper cakes, green cakes) and so on.

Zhouzhuang communications

Zhouzhuang Road is developed by land, 60 kilometers from Shanghai, 38 kilometers from Suzhou and 30 kilometers from Kunshan. Zhou (Zhuang)-Qing (Pu) Expressway is connected with National Highway 3 18, which is about 50 minutes' drive from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, while Kun (Shan)-Zhou Expressway is 25 minutes' drive from Suhu Airport Road and 35 minutes' drive from Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway. To Zhouzhuang, you can choose to take the special tourist line or the regular shuttle bus from Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Kunshan and Zhejiang. You can go south to Zhouzhuang via the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway-Kunshan exit; You can also go to Zhouzhuang via Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway-Jiaxing Exit-Wang Ping Direction -3 18 National Highway-Shangzhou Highway.

Zhouzhuang entertainment

How can you miss the fun of boating when you come to the water town? Feel free to experience a trip to Zhouzhuang Water Lane. Besides, it is also not to be missed to enjoy Kunqu Opera, visit Zhouzhuang at night and watch the performance of Osprey. There are many boats in Zhouzhuang, a water town. Shuttle boats will always add a bit of haste to tourists and make them more curious about the scenery in front of them. In fact, this hurried cruise ship is the most charming beauty of Zhouzhuang. Usually, these boats are covered with dark blue tarpaulins. This is the Wu Peng boat. These ships are well organized, and the management uniformly assigns tourists to take them.

Zhouzhuang shopping

Zhouzhuang people are ingenious and have developed many high-level traditional crafts in the past 900 years. Zhouzhuang Bamboo Weaving and Zhuanglu are representative works.

The teapot in Zhouzhuang is also unique. Teapots in other places are mostly made of ceramics, while teapots in Zhouzhuang are carved from stone. The relief on the teapot wall is vivid and rich in image. Friends who are good at tea should not miss it.

As the representative of Jiangnan water town, Suzhou embroidery, pearls and other Jiangnan specialties can also be seen everywhere here. Buy more decorative paintings depicting the beautiful scenery of the four seasons in the water town, with small and exquisite frames, and you can "take" the water town home.

Shopping Street: Zhouzhuang Cultural Street is very lively and can be described as a gathering place of traditional culture. On both sides of Cultural Street, there are many shops, such as teahouses and pharmacies, people who spin cotton while ironing clothes, people who weave bamboo utensils and knead dough, people who make wood and write calligraphy ... Here, tourists can relax and appreciate the traditional cultural charm that is rare in the city on weekdays.

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