PreeChina · Sight Guide
6 sights within 229 km of Hangzhou. 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
6 temple and sacred site sights lie within 229 km of central Hangzhou, from Temple of Yue Fei at 3.4 km to Mount Jiuhua at 228 km. They are: Temple of Yue Fei, Lingyin Temple, Mount Kuaiji, Lingshan Grand Buddha, Mount Putuo, Mount Jiuhua.
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 Hangzhou city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Hangzhou. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
3.4 km from central Hangzhou, straight line
The tomb and shrine of Yue Fei. The kneeling figures of Qin Hui and three others before the tomb date from the Ming dynasty, and people smashed and recast them again and again.
6.7 km from central Hangzhou, 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.
55 km from central Hangzhou, straight line
The Tomb of Yu the Great lies at the foot of the mountain, where rulers have honoured Yu through the ages. The Yue Jue Shu records that Yu gathered the lords at Kuaiji.
129 km from central Hangzhou, straight line
An 88-metre bronze standing Shakyamuni, completed in 1997. The Buddhist Palace of Lingshan stands beside it.
216 km from central Hangzhou, straight line
One of the four sacred Buddhist mountains and the seat of Guanyin. Puji, Fayu and Huiji temples and the Guanyin statue of the South Sea stand here.
228 km from central Hangzhou, straight line
One of the four sacred Buddhist mountains and the seat of Ksitigarbha. The Silla prince Kim Gyo-gak practised here in the Tang dynasty, and after his death people honoured him as an incarnation of Ksitigarbha. Several mummified bodies of monks survive on the mountain.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Temple of Yue Fei | Historic Temple | 3.4 km |
| 2 | Lingyin Temple | Buddhist Temple | 6.7 km |
| 3 | Mount Kuaiji | Sacred Mountain | 55 km |
| 4 | Lingshan Grand Buddha | Buddhist Site | 129 km |
| 5 | Mount Putuo | Sacred Mountain | 216 km |
| 6 | Mount Jiuhua | Sacred Mountain | 228 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Hangzhou. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 6 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 6 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 6, all within 229 km of central Hangzhou in a straight line.
Temple of Yue Fei, at 3.4 km from the centre in a straight line.
228 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 6 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 Hangzhou, who is travelling and how much time you have. We build the route around your group.
