Recommended Scenic Spots for Self-Driving Trips Around Suzhou

There are many great places for self-driving trips around Suzhou, with beautiful scenery. We highly recommend you go there to play and check in! Let’s take a look at the best self-driving destinations around Suzhou. For detailed introductions, please see below.

1、 Xianju Gongmeng

Xianju County is located in southeastern Zhejiang, western Taizhou, a pilot county for China’s “National Park”, and the source of Taizhou’s mother river (Yong’an Creek – Lingjiang – Jiaojiang). Gongmeng is located 38 kilometers southwest of Xianju County, surrounded by strange peaks on all sides, a small basin is surrounded into a bright and shining gem. The wonders of the cliffs, the beautiful bamboo forests, constitute the unique scenery here.

2、 Shaoxing Anchang Ancient Town

The real ancient town with flavor, you don’t need a large number of tourists, you don’t need tickets, you just need the original water town style. Shaoxing’s Anchang Ancient Town is such a place with a lot of flavor.

Anchang sausage and pulled white sugar here are famous far and wide, and the water wedding with a water town flavor is also unique. A bowl of mellow yellow wine, a few fennel beans, a plate of special Anchang bacon, you can spend a leisurely afternoon.

Trip recommendation: Hangzhou → Shaoxing Cangqiao Straight Street → Lu Xun’s Former Residence → Anchang Ancient Town

Address: Anchang Town, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang Province

3、 Qiantong Ancient Town

Qiantong Ancient Town is an extraordinary original version of Ming and Qing dynasties residential buildings in Jiangnan, a rural painting with a strong ancient charm and vibrant colors. A beautiful Jiangnan silk and bamboo tune. Walking there “every house has carved beams, every household has living water”, the gossip water system, the water gurgles, the blue water is quiet, flowing through every household, not like a water town, but better than a water town, it is a good place to appreciate the folk culture of eastern Zhejiang.

Recommended attractions nearby: Nanxi Hot Spring, Double Rainbow Falling Color, Rock Carvings

4、 Jinksi

Jinksi, formerly known as Chenmu, is located in the southwest corner of Kunshan, Shen Congwen described her as “a girl in a dream”.

The ancient town originally had a stream, with peach blossoms and plum blossoms on both sides. “Walking back and forth at a short distance, all need boats” is a true portrayal of Jinksi. Water lanes, wharves, arched bridges, covered walkways, corridors, and streets, are like a breathtakingly beautiful painting. Wu Qu is leisurely, tea is fragrant, water town families, a thousand years of transformation.

5、 Mount Daiming

If you want to visit the wonders of Mount Huangshan, but worry about too many people in Mount Huangshan, I recommend that you go to Mount Daiming in Lin’an, Zhejiang. The mountain color is like the splashed ink landscape in Chinese paintings. The strange pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds, and peak forests are endless, known as “Small Mount Huangshan in Zhejiang”. Those who have been there say it is worth seeing! The gorgeous red leaves like clouds are dazzling, the thousand-acre alpine meadow on the top of the mountain, golden, you may stay overnight in the camping area, and see the charming Milky Way that you haven’t seen in the city for a long time.

6、 Chenxi, Shangyu

Chenxi is located 35 kilometers south of Shangyu City, Zhejiang Province. Due to the inconvenient transportation, it is still unknown to most people. Centuries-old camphor trees and ginkgo trees, layers of terraced fields, scattered farmhouses, and small streams by the mountain road are pleasing to the eye. Rafting here is a beautiful landscape!

7、 Yuanshan Island, Xiangshan

Yuanshan is an archipelago, 47.5 kilometers from the nearest point to the mainland, Shipu Town, with two main islands, north and south.

The luxuriant mountain flowers, the blue sea, and the strange cliffs, make up the beautiful scenery of Yuanshan Island like a paradise. On a leisure holiday, come here to watch the sunrise and sunset, admire the Milky Way, and have a beautiful dream with the sound of the waves, it is extremely romantic.

8、 Shangxi Village, Thousand Island Lake

Shangxi Village in western Zhejiang, a huge waterfall group, a majestic stone dragon, and a large village in Jiangnan, constitute its picturesque and extraordinary scenery. Every autumn, the red leaves in the mountains adorn the white walls and black tiles, like a pastoral poem of landscape painting.

9、 Baishanzu in Qingyuan, Lishui

Baishanzu in Qingyuan, with mountains piled up, peaks and ridges winding. If you miss the fresh air of the past, come to Baishanzu to experience the freshest and purest “forest bath”. Find a piece of green mountains and green waters, feel the leisurely feeling of picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, watch the sunrise, the morning light reveals …

10、 Qin Chuan Village, Thousand Island Lake

Qin Chuan Village is located at the source of Thousand Island Lake, a typical Huizhou ancient village. The five nearly thousand-year-old camphor trees at the entrance of the village have witnessed the traces of history and time left here. More than 200 Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient houses are scattered on both sides of Qinxi, sitting in the house, lying on the bed, you can hear the sound of the gurgling stream. This peaceful time lasts all year round, the green trees and falling flowers, reflecting the colorful spots of the stream.