PreeChina · Sight Guide
8 sights within 268 km of Wenzhou. Pick the ones you want and PreeChina can build a private, custom or tailor-made tour around them.
At a Glance
Price
Per person, in US dollars. The price covers the guide, the ground service, and the transport, meals and tickets in the itinerary, and it falls as the group grows. What a price includes and leaves out.
| Travelers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day trip | USD 305 | USD 220 | USD 185 | USD 175 | USD 160 | USD 155 | USD 145 | USD 135 |
Premium hotels and first-class rail raise the price: the selectors on Private Tours show by how much. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Why These Sights
8 historic architecture sights lie within 268 km of central Wenzhou, from Yongchang Fort at 15 km to Zhan'ao Pagoda at 268 km. They are: Yongchang Fort, Taishun Covered Bridges, Taizhou Prefectural City Wall, Huang Family Mansion, Timber Arch Covered Bridges, Huzhen Sarira Pagoda, Lingyin Temple, Zhan'ao Pagoda.
This page lists the sights and how far each one sits from the city centre. It does not set a length for the trip: your private itinerary decides which sights to combine, the order and the number of days.
The Wenzhou city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Wenzhou. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
15 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
A stone fort that villagers built themselves in the Ming dynasty against Japanese pirates, with its walls and inner canal intact.
91 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
Timber arch covered bridges. UNESCO inscribed the traditional craft of Chinese timber arch bridges on its list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding in 2009. The bridges use no nails or rivets, and builders weave short timbers together into an arch.
102 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
The old city wall of Linhai. Qi Jiguang created the hollow watchtower design here, later used on the Great Wall at Jizhen, and locals call the wall the Great Wall of Jiangnan.
132 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
A Qing-dynasty carved-wood mansion. Songyang County keeps over a hundred traditional villages with intact layouts, one of the densest groups of old villages in Jiangnan.
133 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
Shouning holds one of the largest numbers of surviving timber arch covered bridges in China. UNESCO inscribed the building craft on its urgent safeguarding list in 2009, in the same tradition as Taishun in Zhejiang.
182 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
A Northern Song brick and timber pagoda.
256 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
A 1,700-year-old temple in a forested valley. The monk Ji Gong, whom folk memory keeps alive, lived here, and the site holds 340 ancient stone carvings including China's earliest laughing Buddha.
268 km from central Wenzhou, straight line
A Ming-dynasty tide-quelling pagoda that stands on the Yanguan sea wall.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yongchang Fort | Fortification | 15 km |
| 2 | Taishun Covered Bridges | Historic Bridge | 91 km |
| 3 | Taizhou Prefectural City Wall | Fortification | 102 km |
| 4 | Huang Family Mansion | Historic House | 132 km |
| 5 | Timber Arch Covered Bridges | Historic Bridge | 133 km |
| 6 | Huzhen Sarira Pagoda | Pagoda | 182 km |
| 7 | Lingyin Temple | Buddhist Temple | 256 km |
| 8 | Zhan'ao Pagoda | Pagoda | 268 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Wenzhou. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 8 stops yourself keeps the budget lower. It also means booking each one and the transfers between them. Compare a private tour with independent travel, or ask PreeChina to plan it.
Custom Tour
This route is a starting point: 1 day and 8 stops. PreeChina plans it as a private, tailor-made trip and changes the stops, the days and the pace to your group.
Questions
This page lists 8, all within 268 km of central Wenzhou in a straight line.
Yongchang Fort, at 15 km from the centre in a straight line.
268 km in a straight line. The road distance is longer.
It depends on which sights you combine. Your private itinerary sets the number of days, the order and the pace with you.
Anyone who wants a slow day. The route links 8 stops, so each visit is short. Tell PreeChina which stops matter most and the others can go.
Explore More
This route is in Zhejiang. The province page lists its city guides, themes, museums and other routes.
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Tell us when you arrive in Wenzhou, who is travelling and how much time you have. We build the route around your group.
