As a Hangzhou girl, I heard “The Legend of The White Snake” when I was a child. I love the beautiful story but I don’t like West Lake when I was young. West Lake is a beautiful place, as I glow up, I find her beauty can’t be known in the tour, it needs a lot of time. It cost me 2 years to understand the inside of West Lake, and I still can’t express my feelings correctly.

 

As you saw, West Lake is big, but not that big. The lake area is 6.39 square kilometers, but the West Lake scenic area is 49 square kilometers (the green part in centre). West Lake is surround by mountains, not very high, but very fresh and beautiful. That’s why I said that in a little tour, you will never see all the scenery.

Actually, there is a place, very beautiful and suitable for a short trip. The scenery is amazing, the air is fresh, sweet-and-sour fish is delicious (it just need time to find it out). You may guess it already, it is Thousand-island Lake. The area may much bigger than West Lake (573 square kilometers), however, it is really a good place to take a short tour.

And I will introduce West Lake latter.