I prefer this ancient town recommended by National Geographic over the Humble Administrator's Garden
Water Charm Jiangsu·More Beautiful with You❤️
In the past when I went to Suzhou
I always visited the Humble Administrator's Garden, Pingjiang Road, Shantang Street
But this time, I discovered an incredibly beautiful ancient town
Less commercialized
More of a simple charm of the ancient South
✅Ming and Qing Dynastic Gardens ✅World Cultural Heritage ✅Not overly commercialized
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🚗'About Transportation'
Take Metro Line 4 to "Tongli Station", transfer to the Tongli Ancient Town Zhi Rail special line to get there, or take a taxi
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📍Location: Tongli Ancient Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
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✨'My 2 Days and 1 Night Itinerary'
Day1⃣Tuisi Garden➡Chongbentang➡Gengletang➡Pearl Tower Scenic Garden➡Jiayintang➡Luoxingzhou
Day2⃣Tongli National Wetland Park➡Luoxingzhou
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📷'About Photo Spots'
✅Tuisi Garden
The entrance to the scenic area is also a place worth checking in, listed in the "World Cultural Heritage List", with winding paths leading to secluded spots, a late Qing architectural style, ancient and elegant.
✅Pearl Tower Scenic Garden
Close to the north-facing "Fuguan Bridge Entrance", it's quite large, connecting several gardens, full of koi, you can stroll for half a day.
✅Chongbentang
This place is now an exhibition hall, displaying exhibits related to the folk wedding customs of the Jiangnan water towns, worth learning about.
✅Gengletang
Late Qing style, one of the eight scenic spots of Tongli, the garden scenery is quite unique
✅Luoxingzhou
A secluded island, not easy to find, accessible only by boat, but worth a visit.
✅Rowing Boat
A boat can seat 6 people, you can share a boat, and view the entire ancient town along the waterway, a different perspective.
✅Tongli National Wetland Park
Over 4,000 acres of wetland forest, a natural oxygen bar, with forests, bamboo groves, and lakes along the way, as if walking into a fairy tale. During festivals, there are also super fun markets and camping activities, very lively.
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This time, I also saw many interesting activities in Tongli Ancient Town, such as opera performances in the gardens and traditional Chinese-style weddings on the water, all reflecting interesting traditional culture.
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🏠'About Accommodation'
You can stay overnight in the ancient town to experience the charm of the Jiangnan water town, and the itinerary for the second day won't be too rushed.
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🍛'About Food'
Before entering the scenic area, there is a whole pedestrian street, with plenty of food and drink, ✅Scholar's Pork Knuckle ✅Tuisi Cake ✅Red Bean Cake ✅Ox Nose Pastry ✅Taihu Three Whites ✅Sock Bottom Crisp
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If you don't feel like working anymore, then come here to stay for a few days, and experience the charm of this leisurely ancient town in the South
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Tongli Ancient Town contains the ancient town itself, as well as the Pearl Tower, several old houses and Luoxingzhou. It is a very good ancient town with a lot of points. The noodles in the ancient town taste good, and the Pingtan is also very distinctive. You can also take the boat Luo Xingzhou. It is really a lot of play, it is worth punching in!
Tongli is located in Wujiang District, Suzhou City, and the Jiangnan Water Town is very charming. There are scenery everywhere. There are many small boats. , keep shuttled back and forth. You must go to the retreat garden and the pearl tower. The scenic spot ticket includes these gardens. The back garden of the pearl tower is so beautiful. The area of the Sanqiao in the ancient town is very distinctive. There are many small restaurants and rows of red lanterns hanging along the river. There are also many foods in the ancient town, white fish, white shrimp, stew, silk, etc., the characteristics of the town of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River. There is also a century-old tea house: Nanyuan Tea House, where you can drink tea and listen to the play.
An online reservation one day in advance can save 20 yuan. . . Buy an adult ticket on the spot for 100 oceans on the day, and the tickets can be used for two days. The scenery inside is very good. The Tuisi Garden and the Pearl Tower should be visited carefully. The scenery is beautiful. The third bridge must be walked again. There is also a wedding hall inside. If you want to get married, you can open a marriage certificate inside. It is very commemorative. Friends who want to go shopping in one day suggest that they watch a rickshaw car. The driver will accompany you to see the attractions that need tickets to enter. We arrived in Tongli at noon and stayed for one night. We spent an afternoon and a morning walking slowly through Tongli. The tickets also include the ferry tickets to Luoxingzhou, you must go and see. The island in the lake has a 600-year-old Guanyin Temple. There is a pavilion by the lake, and there is a big drum sound in it. After donating the incense money, I went to ask for three knocks. I absolutely have a deep memory. There is an old shop that makes sesame cakes on Tailai Bridge. The facade is not big, but the sesame cakes are baked with charcoal fire, which is very delicious. I like sweet white sesame sesame biscuits. The cake in my hand is bigger than the face. It is really crispy and fragrant to bite. The dining in the scenic area is uneven, let's see everyone choose. There is an old Suzhou noodle restaurant at the intersection of Luoxingzhou. It is recommended to try it.
Walking and watching the flowers in Tongli. Although I did my homework in advance, when I came to Tongli, I seemed to remember only three points: one was the Tailai Bridge with only a frame and no top when I first entered the town gate, one was the retreat garden, and the other was the third bridge in Tongli. The garden is said to be a garden built by officials who were ousted due to impeachment. The garden is characterized by the backwater, so it cannot be extended back and forth according to garden practice, but can only be spread horizontally along the river. Among them, six rooms are arranged in one word. The gardener carefully split the roof of the six rooms in two, indicating that not six rooms are juxtaposed, but two and three. To Tongli, one must walk to Tongli three bridges: Changqing Bridge, Taiping Bridge and Geely Bridge. Because only the words on the Geely Bridge are very clear, we walked a few times to find the three bridges. This may be the auspicious meaning of Tongli Three Bridges, so that everyone who walks through the three bridges can be long, the wife is flat, and the good luck. Another interesting thing, as we walked the third bridge, it was lunch, and several restaurant owners who built the pillow river greeted us and had something to eat and go shopping. Although the stomach was cooing, the mouth kept answering: Thank you, just eaten. Looking at the fatigue of our face, it is estimated that no store will believe that we have really eaten. Because we remember the next ancient town Mudu in our heart, we had to aggrieve our stomach. Later, when we returned home, we looked at the Raiders and found that the trip to Tongli was really a leak! I feel that Tongli is like a cup of aromatherapy, only by sitting down with peace of mind and slowly tasting, you can get its true taste. Walking around the flowers and swimming in Tongli, it is really a bit violent!
most of the restaurants inside the old city serve pretty much the same dishes. For more variety, go into the regular part of town. Recommended