Wuzhen plus Original Villages Photography Tour

Upon arrival in Hangzhou, you’ll be welcomed at the railway station/airport and transferred to Wuzhen Water town. The rest of the day is up to you to relax or explore this idyllic water town on your own. Capturing its beautiful night with your camera is a nice option. Overnight in Wuzhen.

Shooting Tips:
1. Photographic Gears: Please take wide-angle lens, plus middle and long focus lens, which will aid you to take wonderful photos.
2. Best time to go:  from mid-March to early April.

Highlights: folk custom, historical buildings, water town landscapes

You’ll take a early morning photos on Wuzhen Water Town, and dip into the Ancient Bed Museum, Folk Custom Museum, Woodcarving Museum, Traditional Handwork Workshop, etc,. There are great chances to capture the culture and customs of local people. Later, drive back to the urban Hangzhou.

Shooting Tips：
1.Wuzhen Water Town: The most picturesque time of year is spring and autumn. The best time  to photograph is morning and dusk: a gentle fog covers the canals that run through the city in the morning, as if one has wandered into a blissful dream.
2. Just stroll along the ancient stone-paved alleys, and recall the days passed away.

Highlights:  Mt. Gushan, Leifeng Pagoda, Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, Six Harmonies Pagoda, Qiantang River

Today, free activities to explore and photograph the West Lake at your pace for a half day, as well as its surrounding scenic spots. The West Lake enjoys charming scenery and many culture relics and historic sites.

After lunch, take a 4-hour scenery drive to Wuyuan County, Jiangxi province and take a shower in hotel to erase your tired.

Shooting Tips：
Standing on the Six Harmonies Pagoda(a perfect example of brick-and-wood structure built in ancient China), you can get a bird view of the Qiantang River. Here is also the great place to shoot images of Qiantang River.

Hightlights:  original buildings, pear flower, sunrise, carpets of rape flower

You’ll take a drive to Yueliang Wan (Moon Bay), where you’ll be enchanted by ultimate beauty of the sunrise over the Moon Bay. Colors there seemed to have been toned by the hands of God. Picutresuqe views are everywhere. Then proceed to Sixi village and Yancun village. After lunch, head to Qingyuan for shooting pear flower in blossom. Overnight in Qingyuan.

Shooting Tips:
1. Qingyuan is the photographer’s paradise to shoot pear flowers. Annual March and April, it’s inspiring to see flowers in blossom, against the white walls and black tiles.
2. Sixi village and Yancun village are old villages, just like picuture-postcard villages. They are embedded in natural sight of colorful peaks, beautiful mountains, clear streams and green rivers. They also feature antique houses, with exquisite brick carving, stone carving and wood carving. You can get lots of unique shots.
3. If you intend to take panoramic-view photos, the hill peak behind the road is the best position, with the stretch of remote bridges, clear rivers, villages and yellow rape flower in blossom.

Highlights: carpets of yellow rape flower, old villages

You’ll be driven to Jiangling village after breakfast. Immerse yourself in the sunrise, spectaculars of rape flowers and rice terrace. Following is the Likeng village.

Shooting Tips:
1. Jiangling in Wuyuan County may be the best worthy of a place to go, where rape flowers growing throughout mountains and plains form the shape of terrace. Stand on the top of the hill and look into the distance, you’ll find rape flowers, layer upon layer, stretch as far as eye can see.
2. Likeng village is noted for its picture-postcard scenery, with the singular style houses, narrow pathways built around several creeks that intersect, and the rape flower fields in front of the houses.