HANGZHOU is one of the two towns of China with Suzhou considered as the paradise on ground. Its situation in edge of the lake 'Xi Hu' bordered of hill preserves a charm that the city in full expansion did not succeed in yet masking. This place has, in addition to its natural framework, the traces of an exceptional past.
To 195 km in the south-east of Shanghai, Hangzhou is at the southern end of the Large historical Channel in the lower slope of the Qiangtang river. The vegetation is luxuriant and green and the climate is moderate. One of the old capitals of China, Hangzhou has a great number of cultural relics and sites of inheritance.
To see absolutely: The lake of the West Mountains with trees and flowers luxuriant surround the lake of the West with Hangzhou. Old houses, terraces and gardens inside the gardens were built on its small islands. With its pagodas out of stone and its tearooms, its temples, its caves and its sources hidden in the lake, you will have the impression to be the character of a Chinese traditional painting.
