Suzhou One-Day Plum Blossom Viewing Tour‖Guide & Tips

❤Recommendation: Mid-February to mid-March is the best time to view plum blossoms in Suzhou. Where are the best spots? Check out the guide below!!! ▽▽▽▽▽▽▽▽ 🕙Morning🕙 ✅Lion Grove Garden: 🌟Highlights: The main exhibition area of the Suzhou Gardens Plum Blossom Festival, with the highest quality plum blossoms in Suzhou. The plum blossoms complement the classical architecture, making it perfect for capturing traditional photos. 👍Photo Spots: 1. Entrance Flower Border: Featuring pruned plum bonsai as a backdrop, paired with wintergreen, azaleas, and other flowers. 2. Yan Yu Tang Hall: Capture the elegance of plum bonsai alongside paintings and calligraphy of plum blossoms by the Wu School. Wearing Hanfu or plain long gowns is recommended. 3. Wen Mei Pavilion: Capture silhouettes of plum blossoms against the backlight. 🚉Transportation: 1. Subway: Line 4 to Beisita Station. 2. Bus: Tour Line 1, Tour Line 2, or Tour Line 5 to Lion Grove Garden Station. -------------------------- 🕙Noon🕙 ✅Fragrant Snow Sea (Xiang Xue Hai): 🌟Highlights: One of the four major plum blossom viewing spots in China, featuring thousands of acres of plum blossoms resembling a sea of snow. 👍Photo Spots: 1. Plum Blossom Viewing Pavilion: Climb up for a panoramic view of the plum blossom sea. 2. Plum Grove Path: Capture the extension of the plum blossoms and winding paths from a low angle. 🚉Transportation: Subway Line 5 to Lingyan Mountain Station, transfer to Bus No. 64 to Xiang Xue Hai Station. ------------------------------ 🕙Afternoon🕙 ✅Tiger Hill: 🌟Highlights: Plum blossoms complement the Tiger Hill Pagoda and ancient buildings, combining a sense of history with natural elegance. 👍Photo Spots: 1. In front of Leng Xiang Pavilion: Capture the plum blossoms with the eaves and upturned corners of the buildings. Using a telephoto lens to compress the space is recommended. 2. Sword Pool Stone Bridge: Capture the reflection and symmetrical composition of the ancient bridge with plum blossoms adorning both sides. 3. Tiger Hill Pagoda: Capture the Tiger Hill Pagoda from a low angle, using plum blossoms as the foreground. 🚉Transportation: Tour Line 1, Tour Line 2, or Bus No. 32 to Tiger Hill Station. --- ### **Suggested Itinerary** 1. **Morning**: Lion Grove Garden (8:30 am-10:30 am). Avoid peak crowds, participate in the garden's poetry collection activity, and receive a souvenir keychain. 2. **Noon**: Head to Fragrant Snow Sea (11:30 am-2:30 pm). Enjoy Taihu Lake's "Three Whites" and other local specialties in Guangfu Town along the way. 3. **Afternoon**: Fragrant Snow Sea (2:30 pm-4:00 pm) → Tiger Hill (4:30 pm-6:00 pm). The evening light is ideal for capturing silhouettes of the Tiger Hill Pagoda and plum blossoms. ---------------------------- 💰Tickets: Lion Grove Garden: 40 yuan, Fragrant Snow Sea: 24 yuan, Tiger Hill: 60 yuan. ❤Other recommended plum blossom viewing spots in Suzhou: Humble Administrator's Garden, West Mountain.