Zhouzhuang, China Travel Blogs

Zhouzhuang - Venice in China
Jul 11, 2005 (7 photos)

... bicycle and visit the many gardens when it's pouring rain!! So after lunch we decided to go to Zhouzhuang, a small riverside village known as the "Venice of China" for it's numerous and crisscrossing canals. It's a very small place so we figure we can ...

Much more like ancient China
Mar 26, 2007 (10 photos)

Shower song: devils dance- metallica Zhouzhuang is the China i have been dying to see, a tiny town of 4000 inhabitants, apparently now solely dependant on tourism (shame) though the day we've chosen is perfect, as it seems to be tourist free throughout. ...

Zhouzhuang, Venice of the East
Sep 13, 2009 (3 photos)

We took our first tour to ZhouZhuang, a pretty canal city about 1-1/2 hours (by bus) from Shanghai. It had little shops lining the cobblestone streets along the canals.  It was similar to Venice, with canals and bridges.  Smaller scale but a cute ...

Zhouzhuang Village
Sep 28, 2009 (18 photos)

... have been used in advertising around the world, but most people wouldn't know where they were from unless they actually went to Zhouzhuang. We visited several ancient mansions in the village, which were unimpressive. I could see that in the past they were ...

Zhouzhuang
May 11, 2007 (4 photos)

Today we went to Zhouzhuang a water town near Shanghai.   It has old Ming buildings and canals that run through the town.  We hired a gondola and went for a ride through the canals.  That was lovely, really peaceful.  We stopped to ...

even more impressive!
Sep 5, 2006 (14 photos)

a small village 1 hour from suzhou, full of canels,bridges and chilled out boat rides.

Zhouzhuang - The Venice of China
Sep 24, 2007 (8 photos)

... houses, gardens, courtyards, canals, bridges and lakes. Each was more grand then the last and, as with everything in China, had many different spiritual, superstitious, traditional or some other meaning. Another "feature" of some of these houses was a ...

ZhouZhuang - local version of Venice
Aug 10, 2008 (35 photos)

... you have only half of my attention. But still it's enough to share the great weekend we had . We spent it in Zhouzhuang village, which is one and a half hours away from Shanghai. It is a traditional Chinese village which is divided by ...

I want life in every word
Sep 11, 2007 (32 photos)

... energy which the West otherwise lacks. There is community. There is simplicity. It is thrilling. We toured an ancient town (Zhouzhuang) about an hour out of Suzhou (Dad, I did riddles with my classmates the whole way, they couldn't get enough of ...

national day
Oct 1, 2009

for national day, i attended a wedding in xuyi. it's known for its crawfish or chinese lobster as they call it around here. it was one of my co-workers and i was one of the few foreigners that attended. three hours outside of wuxi, it was in a small ...

A Beautiful Ancient Smurf Water Village
Aug 17, 2007 (36 photos)

... early and headed to the North Long Distance Bus Station which was only about five minutes away from my hotel.  A journey to Zhouzhuang Water Village is now pretty much all taken care of for you by the wonderful Suzhou Tourist Industry!  Go to the ...

Venice Baby! / Zhouzhuang
Apr 24, 2008 (14 photos)

... However our next stop on the bus tour, Zhouzhuang, has a legitimate claim to the title of "Venice of the East" Zhouzhuang is a little village between Suzhou and Shanghai.  A network of willow tree lined canals criss-crossed the village.  Along ...

The touristic island of Zhouzhuang
Jul 23, 2007

After Shanghai we got on a bus that took 2hours to get to our next port of call - the Touristic Village of Zhouzhuang. They call this village the Venice of asia as it has a lot of canals in it. Pretty much everyone there was a tourist. To get into the ...

Zhouzhuang
Nov 19, 2007 (5 photos)

Petit village aux portes de Shanghai

Water Village
Oct 13, 2009

... boats and more construction sites but even so though it was still a nice enough journey as the sun was out.  Zhouzhuang is set amongst some nice villas and apparently this area is where people come from Shanghai to holiday, relax and play ...

Charming canals
Nov 3, 2007 (6 photos)

Zhouzhuang, Shanghai - an ancient water village that reeks charm in the narrow lanes, stone bridges over canals lined with boats carrying thrilled tourists enthusiastically capturing photo memories with their fancy digital cameras

zhouzhuang
May 11, 2007

under construction

China's #1 water town
Jul 16, 2006 (5 photos)

So we all piled into a tourist bus, complete with a tour guide with a purple flag, and headed west of Shanghai to a famous "water town" Saturday. I heard it was like Chinese Venice, but it looked more like Chinese Amsterdam. Little rivers, lots of bridges ...

Daytrip to Zhouzhuang
Oct 18, 2001 (3 photos)

Tongji Uni organized this day trip for us. Zhouzhuang is this beautiful tiny water town just outside Shanghai. It feels a bit like Venice with its many small streams, tiny bridges and alleyways.

Suzhou - Zhouzhuang - Shanghai
Feb 28, 2009

Setelah santap pagi, perjalanan dilanjutkan kembali ke Shanghai. Dalam perjalanan menuju Shanghai, kamiakan diajak mengunjungi kota Zhouzhuang yang terkenal dengan sebutan kota air. Siang hari usai santap siang, kami kembali ke Shanghai. Tiba di ...

Zhouzhuang - The "Venice of China"
Feb 15, 2009

Leaving at 8 AM from Tonghe, we got on the bus and departed for the wonderful city of Zhouzhuang, China in Jiangsu Province. About an hour and a half away, most slept or listened to their iPods, still trying to recover from the Friday night. I listened to ...