Recommendations for self-driving weekend fun near Suzhou

If you don’t want to stay at home on the weekend, you can go to Suzhou for a visit! Recommend a friend to go on a self-driving tour so you can enjoy plenty of free time. So what are the tourist attractions around Suzhou that are more suitable for self-driving tours? Let’s take a look!

1. Anchang Ancient Town

That memory called nostalgia

Blue stone paths, quaint old houses, narrow and deep alleys. Deep alleys Alley is so old that it cannot be disturbed by any city. Lao'an Street is built along the river, with residential buildings to the south and commercial markets to the north. Simplicity, quietness and duty are the reflections of Anji Ancient Town. The place is not big, but enough to savor.

The ancient town does not require tickets and does not have an endless stream of tourists. Some are just original urban customs.

The memory of briquettes has gradually faded with the development of urbanization, and has long since disappeared in big cities. Residents of Anggu Town still maintain the habit of burning coal stoves. Walking on the bluestone, every time they see the flames rising, accompanied by the curling smoke, they always feel an inexplicable kindness and touch. Maybe it’s the nostalgia from childhood memories.

There are several small teahouses by the river, which are different from those in Zhouzhuang or Tongli. All are authentic. In the early morning, you can go to the old teahouse, which serves fennel beans and bowls of tea. Locals in twos and threes drink tea and play cards here, living a leisurely life. The felt hat and Shaoxing dialect will put you in the time and space of Lu Xun's Ah Q.

The old lady who came spoke a local dialect that she did not understand. I think they should be neighbors. They made an appointment early in the morning to go out to the market together and buy the things they need to eat and use that day.

There is no noise, only silence and leisure. Residents went about their business on their porches, and visitors became accustomed to the sights. Wandering in such a less commercialized place is both a pleasure and a blessing.

Sugar pulling is a unique skill that only Anchang has. It is a kind of candy in which maltose and sugar are dissolved, boiled into filaments, and then pulled out before the sugar hardens. The master set up a shelf next to a pillar on the street and now sells it on the street. That posture, that movement, all in one go!

Shaoxing’s thousands of years of folk customs have been preserved and continued in most ancient towns. In the middle of winter, the ancient town of Anchang will hold the twelfth lunar month. Stuffed sausages are a specialty of Anchang and are available all year round, especially in winter. In the twelfth lunar month, a string of sausages is hung in front of the door, becoming a unique scenery. When visiting the ancient town, you must try the original sausage. The taste is unforgettable.

The total distance is 199 kilometers.

Self-driving route: Shanghai-Kunming Expressway-Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway-Shanghai-Kunming Expressway-Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway-Anchang Ancient Town

2. Minghe Ancient Town

High-end scenery like Suzhou

High-walled courtyards, winding paths, courtyards, walking-horse buildings, green tiles with herringbone slopes, and horse-headed gables, all the buildings have an ancient feel. The taste of vicissitudes, the brick carvings on the gate tower are exquisite, beautiful and full of charm. All the above descriptions refer to Heming Ancient Town, which is located at the foot of Wulei Mountain and on the shores of Duhu Lake and Baiyangdian Lake.

Heming Ancient Town was the main salt field in eastern Zhejiang during the Tang and Song Dynasties, with a history of more than 1,200 years. In the 25th year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1392), He Ming established the Salt Service Department, which the locals used to call He Mingchang. Heming was built in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. It was always called Heming Township during the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods, and was changed to Heming Town in 1950. The old street is one mile long, and the ancient customs still exist.

The store is built along the river. There are seven ancient stone bridges on the river, among which Doutang, Canal and Tanqiao are municipal cultural relics protection units. Because of its vicissitudes, the ancient town is more charming.

Going from a bustling city to the ancient town of Heming, there is an illusion of traveling through time and space, as if you have walked into an old black and white photo from a colorful world. Time seems to have frozen here, everything has slowed down. Grandma sat on the stone steps, not talking, just sitting quietly, as if time had passed

All the chickens here are free range. As long as there is a chicken soup stew in the village, the delicious smell will spread throughout the ancient town and you can smell it wherever you go. I remember when I was little, my grandma made chicken soup, and you could smell it in the alley before coming home. As I grow up, I can no longer smell that smell, but the smell remains in my impression.

Use a bamboo basket to buy vegetables here. Plastic bags have almost no pollution. I heard from my mother that after the vegetables are bought home and put in the basket, the pesticides will slowly oxidize and then be diluted. But if placed in a plastic bag, the pesticide will never dissipate. Don't know if it's true or not, but it sounds reasonable. Perhaps it is the lack of pollution that makes the food in the ancient town so delicious, with a hint of sweetness in the food.

In the evening, grandma went home with a bundle of firewood to make a stove. Dishes cooked by fire are completely different from those cooked by gas. In the mouth, the smell of glutinous incense is the only smell that belongs to fire.

The total distance is 188 kilometers.

Self-driving route Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway Hangzhou Bay Bridge Ningbo Ring Expressway Shenhai Expressway G329 Cixi Heming Ancient Town

Warm reminder: There are Jinshan Temple and Wulei Temple nearby, and you can also go to Cixi No. 1 tour! Of course, He Ming’s rice cakes are a must~

3. Ancient Yan Painting Village

Outdoor Refuge

I want to go to the foot of the mountain alone with you Little ancient village life. Climb to the top of the mountain in the morning and go to the market to buy vegetables and fruits in the afternoon. Cooking, cleaning, and having babies.

Read a book in the afternoon and drink and chat under the apricot tree in the evening until the moonlight is cool and dewy. In my dream, I went to the empty valley where ferns flourished. Birds chirped and the seeds on the trees cracked. When we were tired, we slept together under the tree and woke up. I was still young, but you were not old. If there is such a place, it must be Guyan Painting Township.

The farmhouses in the village are all made of bamboo. After years of precipitation, they exude a dark yellow color. The house built with natural materials is warm in winter and cool in summer, and there is a bamboo village inside the house.

Guyan is not only an ancient town, but also an out-and-out hometown of painting. Compared to the tourists in Hongcun, there are only a few painters who come to Guyan. There are rows of studios and galleries on both sides of the street, but the commercial atmosphere is almost zero, and businesses only operate lightly out of hobbies.

The couplets posted on the first day of the Lunar New Year represent the auspiciousness of "prosperity, auspiciousness, peace and contentment". Farmers are always quite simple-minded and a bit superstitious. That superstition is the missing flavor this year.

The sky is blue and the clouds are like cotton. Life in a small town is always boring.

If you are tired, you can choose where to stay. Here, B&Bs are really B&Bs, homes for ordinary people. Although there are no fancy soft furnishings, what I love is its original ecology.

When the sun sets, the day is coming to an end because the fishing nets have been brought in.

The total distance is 435 kilometers.

For the self-driving route, take the Hangjin-Quzhou Expressway to the Jin Expressway to the Lishui West Exit, then take the S53 Provincial Highway to the west (in the direction of Longquan) to Dagantou Town, Liandu.

Tired of the buildings that are usually called modern products, I went to the depths of the mountains with my yearning for nature. This is also a kind of seclusion.

4. Suichang Nanjianyan

Terraces are not only in Guizhou

One of the highlights: terraces

Suichang Nanjianyan is located in 50 kilometers southwest of Suichang County, Zhejiang Province. Its main peak is 1,626 meters above sea level. It is rich in negative oxygen ions and is known as a natural oxygen bar. In 2004, it was awarded the title of "International Photography Creation Base" by UNESCO and was selected as "The Most Beautiful Photography Holy Land Yearned by Hangzhou People". Through the hard work of working people of all generations, nearly 2,000 acres of alpine terraced landscape has been created! Compared with the terraced fields in Guizhou, the terraced fields in Nanjianyan are more spiritual.

Highlight 2: Ancient Village

Shishuntou Village, where Nanjianyan is located, has simple folk customs and a strong local flavor. The civil architecture is unique and has mountains and rivers. When General Su Yu led the Red Army, guerrilla warfare was carried out here. It is one of the red base areas in Suichang County and has profound cultural heritage.

The nearby Wuxi River is clear and graceful, contrasting with the quaint ancient villages of the Ming Dynasty. There is no noise, just silence.

Point 3: Clouds

The twentieth letter in the English alphabet

Sea of ​​clouds, sunset, rainbow, snow, fog and ice hanging are the names of Nanjian A must-see attraction in Rock.

The total distance is 472 kilometers.

Self-driving route: Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway-Hangzhou Ring Expressway-Hangjin-Quzhou Expressway-Longyou-Longli Expressway-Suichang Exit

5. Fuyang

Here is not only There are ancient towns and paragliders!

Play point 1: Yongan Mountain Paragliding.

Fuyang Yongan Mountain is China’s paragliding training base. Every sunny day, colorful umbrella flowers bloom in Yongan Mountain. You can fly into the air and look down at the earth. The green hills are like washing feet, and the fields are like weaving cloth. The terrain here is a small basin. As long as there are no typhoons, the west wind blows almost every day, and we can fly 12 months a year!

There are dedicated coaches here, so don’t worry or be afraid. After flying into the blue sky, the view is extremely great!

Of course, there is no need to envy those who fly alone in the sky. If you want, you can sign up for a training class. Flying freely is actually very simple~

Cool, isn’t it? Like a big eagle, no one can fly~

When the weather is nice, you can also sit here and enjoy the breeze. Sometimes a puppy will sit with you and watch the sunset.

Drink beer, eat late-night snacks, camp, and watch the stars at night, it’s great!

Tourist Point 2: Find Sun Quan’s hometown in Longmen Ancient Town

Longmen Ancient Town, a small town only 50 kilometers away from Hangzhou, is said to be the hometown of Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms. The village is famous for its unique Ming and Qing ancient architecture. It is a well-preserved mountain town among the Ming and Qing ancient architecture in the south of the Yangtze River today.

Different from the scenery of waterside gardens, Longmen has its own pastoral style. Diligence and hard work will lead to a bumper harvest and adequate food and clothing, so that life can be guaranteed. Inside the courtyard is an exquisite and quiet hall, and outside the courtyard is a broad and rough countryside. Pastoral life and pastoral taste complement each other, so Longmen people are delicate but not pretentious, bold but not straight.

How to play three: Look at the clouds on the top of Longmen Mountain.

There is also Longmen Mountain behind the village, with an altitude of 1067.6 meters. It is the highest mountain in Fuyang with many peaks and mountains.

The total distance is 220 kilometers.

Self-driving route: Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway-Hangzhou Ring Expressway South Line-Hangzhou Xinjing Expressway-right exit of Zhongbu Toll Station-turn left under the bridge-go straight along Provincial Highway 19-midway to the entrance of Longmen Ancient Town-to the entrance of the field entrance , take the left branch road at the first fork (via Huanshan, Linshuang, Zhenjiaxi, Dongshan Village) - Fuyang Yongan Mountain.

6. Tonglu

Coffee with flowers, rafting, cowshed

How to play 1: Dipu Flower Sea, there is nothing here except flowers!

There are hundreds of acres of flowers in the scenic area, and patches of cosmos, zinnias, and sunflowers are blooming beautifully. The sea of ​​flowers is very beautiful. The sea of ​​flowers is really a boundless ocean dotted with flowers.

Of course, this is also a beautiful place for photography~ ~

Tour point 2: Rafting in Huxiao Gorge, the first rafting in East China.

10 kilometers of strange rock canyons, 260 meters of vertical drop, and 10,000 square meters of super-large capacity for rapids adventure! Warm spring is the best time to play in the water~

Tourist point 3: Jiutan Jiubao Waterfall in Xueshuiling Scenic Area, with its twists and turns and Bitan Silver Waterfall.

The Jiutan Jiubao Waterfall in Lingxue Scenic Area is the first waterfall group in Tonglu. The vegetation in the scenic area is lush, and the content of negative oxygen ions known as "vitamins in the air" reaches 3900/cm3! Climb mountains, play in the water, breathe oxygen, and have fun during the short vacation.

How to play 4: Niulan Coffee, a local coffee shop.

The cafe, which was converted from the owner’s idle cowshed, maintains its original appearance. Stone walls, wooden flower windows, wooden porches, wooden coffee tables, and wooden chairs are simple but unusual and quite interesting. Going to an exquisite coffee bar and drinking a cup of country coffee in the countryside is also a different kind of enjoyment.

The total distance is 261 kilometers.

Self-driving route Xinzhuang enters the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway - after arriving at the Hangzhou North Exit, go directly to the west line of the Ring Expressway (be careful not to enter the urban area of ​​Hangzhou) - transfer to Hangzhou Xinjing (Hangzhou-Guizhou) Expressway - go Direction of Qiandao Lake - Leave through Tonglu exit.

Of course, if you don’t want to walk around, you can choose a place to stay. Every day I sleep until the sun basks on me, and then I get up and eat lazily. In the afternoon, pick up a favorite book and sip green tea

Accommodation: Bodhi Bamboo Garden is located halfway up the mountain, inside Ketuo Temple, next to the Mahavira Hall. The bamboo garden is in the shape of a corridor as a whole, with an open atrium, surrounded by green bamboos, and the sound of Buddha. The room is clean, the atmosphere is elegant, the vegetarian food is delicious, and the stomach is clean. In the morning, the sound of bells and drums fills the air, and at night, the stars fall asleep accompanied by the chirping of insects.

Eat: Porridge, rice cakes, lasagna, soy milk, and some pickles are provided for breakfast. Vegetarian dishes and noodles are available for lunch and dinner. The chef here is the chef of the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai. Vegetarian vegetables are cooked with meat and taste great.

Play: Go to the monk’s morning class in the morning. Those rhythms can calm people down; make a pot of tea in the afternoon, sit on a wicker chair, read a book, bask in the sun, and listen to the bells; after dusk, take a walk on the temple paths, chat with the monks, and stroll along the way. , full of natural interest; watch fireflies in the mountain stream at night and sleep counting the stars.

Address: Bodhi Bamboo Garden, Futuo Temple, Yuhang, Hangzhou

The total distance is 230 kilometers.

Self-driving route: Take the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway to Hangzhou - go through Linping and take the Hangzhou North Ring Expressway to Anji, Huzhou - take the Gouzhuang (Moganshan Road) exit and exit the expressway and turn to the 104 National Highway and Penggong Ring Provincial Highway 04 - - Go straight to Anji - there are road signs for Futuo Temple Scenic Area on the road.

7. Bodhi Bamboo Garden

It is a festival and a kind of meditation.

Residence: "The guild hall is located in the Putuo Mountain Buddhist Academy. The Sanskrit music is melodious and the fragrance of Buddhism is overflowing. It is very quiet. The room is decorated in Chinese style, clean, elegant and spacious. The architecture and dry landscapes of the Tang Dynasty are quite Zen-like. , the whole environment is full of small bridges and flowing water, and the winding paths are very harmonious with the meditative atmosphere."

Eat: "The breakfast is simple vegetarian food, which is quite delicious, but the opening hours are too short, 6. :30-8:30, it seems not very user-friendly. There is a set meal but no menu, and the price is small and expensive. The Xifu Garden in the hotel is a buffet restaurant, and Miaoweizhai is a banquet hall. There are some farmhouse restaurants nearby. and seafood stalls"

=Zhujiajian Island

Baishan Scenic Area

Daqingshan Ecological Park

Play: "Monk in the morning. There is a morning class at 3:00. You can go there early. The location of the hotel is a bit remote, but it is very close to Centipede Temple Pier. It is very convenient for road trips. It is in a quiet environment and is close to Wushitang Scenic Area, Baishan Scenic Area and Zhujiajian Island Guanyin. Cultural Park. It takes about 10 minutes to drive to Daqingshan Ecological Park and about 20 minutes to the performance location of Impression Putuo."

Address: Xianglian Road, Zhujiajian Island, Zhoushan (inside the Putuo Mountain College of China Buddhist Academy). )

The total distance is 312 kilometers.

Self-driving route: Go south along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway - Turn to the east line of the Hangzhou Ring Expressway to Ningbo - Drive along the Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway to the Beilun Exit - Exit the Beilun Expressway - Turn right and drive along National Highway 329 for about 20 minutes Kilometers - Arrive at Baifeng Cheke Ferry - then take a boat to Zhoushan.