Slow Down and Enjoy the Scenery at Xixi Wetland Park, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

🏞️ The beauty of Xixi is meant to be an immersive experience—slow down, 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️ walk around and take it all in. Unlike the exquisite gardens of West Lake, Xixi offers a more natural, unadorned beauty.
Besides wandering along the garden paths and crossing bridges, taking a punt boat is the best way to deeply experience Xixi👏🏻👏🏻

🟥【Xixi Punt Boat】
Zhoujia Village Pier is the most popular pier with the classic garden tour route, but it’s very crowded, with lines of at least an hour and a half.

‼️ Highly recommend the Hongyuan punt boat route—fewer people, more boats, and beautiful scenery✅
🚇 Exit from Xixi Wetland South Station, Exit A. After exiting, head west, then walk north along Huoshi Road. It takes about half an hour on foot from the entrance to the Hongyuan punt boat pier.

🚲 🏍️🛺 You can also choose to take a sightseeing car or rent an electric tricycle 😂😂😂 Perfect for a family of three.
The scenery along the way is also very unique. Both sides are lined with persimmon trees, many with persimmons hanging high on the branches.
From time to time, you’ll see large lotus ponds. Even if you miss the lotus flowers in summer, the lotus leaves in autumn are still quite nice.

⚠️ If you take the sightseeing car, get off at Hongyuan Station, which is also the ticket point for the punt boats.

🎫 100 RMB per boat, seating 2-6 people. At least 2 people are needed to start the boat, and you can share a boat. If there are 5 people, it’s just 20 RMB per person, making it very cost-effective.

🕘 The whole trip takes about 1 hour. This route is a loop, returning to the boarding point.

🔆🔆🔆 Boat ride tips
❣️ The boatmen are usually local residents of Xixi, very talkative, and have a strong sense of belonging and pride in Xixi and Yuhang. Once you compliment the beauty here, the conversation naturally begins.

Post by AarniKuosisto | Oct 5, 2025