Recently, Chun'an County has been awarded as the first batch of 5A-level scenic cities in Zhejiang Province, and it is also the only one in Hangzhou that has won the honor.
The term “scenic city” refers to the county (city, district) built-up areas which are suitable for living, working, and touring and have profound culture, a beautiful and harmonious living environment, rich and diverse leisure business forms, well-equipped public service facilities and strong comprehensive administration capacity. It is currently the most authoritative indicator in Zhejiang to evaluate the comprehensive development of an area’s tourism industry. It’s of great value.
As a 5A level scenic city, Chun'an County is home to many great scenic areas. Let’s find who they are.
5A Scenic Area
Qiandao Lake Scenic Area 千岛湖风景区
Qiandao Lake Scenic Area is among the first group of national key scenic areas in China and a 5A national scenic area, the highest level scenic area in China. It is like a dazzling pearl embedded on the “Hangzhou – Qiandao Lake – Mt. Huang” excellent tourism route. Qiandao Lake is characterized by verdant mountains, crystal-clear water, scattered islands, and ever-changing scenery and is praised by people to be “the most beautiful lake in China”.
4A Scenic Areas
Stone Forest 石林
The Stone Forest Scenic Spot in Qiandao Lake is famous for being secure, mysterious, strange, and dangerous. There are hundreds of unique landscapes. The peaks and rocks inside are oddly shaped. Strange rock formations can be seen everywhere, resembling human beings, objects, birds, or beasts.
Wenyuan Lion City 文渊狮城
Featuring a 666-meter-long prosperous old commercial street, bazaars, restored ancient archways, etc., Wenyuan Lion City–the revived underwater ancient city, will take you to travel through thousands of years.
Xiajiang Village 下姜村
Xiajiang Village, the place where the dream began, is praised as the “Ya Shu Xia Jian (Elegant Villa and Gorge Stream)”. When the village was built 800 years ago, it was given by the forefathers a good expectation of green water and verdant mountains. The beautiful countryside, special food, and local products featured in the Chinese TV Series “The Place Where Our Dream Begins”, which tells the story of contemporary aspiring youth abandoning the city and returning to the countryside to build an ecological new village, are all shot here.
3A Scenic Areas
Qiandao Lake Beer Town 啤酒小镇
Qiandao Lake Beer Town is in the typical European architectural style and has the theme of beer. It uses beer and music with beer spa as the core to showcase beer culture, beer music, art, beauty, food and life of the area. It combines Chun'an folk art, characteristics snacks, countryside food, specialties, etc., and integrates Chinese with western culture, to build Qiandao Lake into a tourism, food, leisure, and entertainment distribution center and a carnival city.
Red Chashan Scenic Area 红色茶山景区
Since its establishment in 2017, the Red Chashan Scenic Area based on the North Marching Anti-Japanese Advance Troops of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Memorial Hall (中国工农红字北上抗日先遣队纪念馆) has further explored and restored red culture resources, passed down and promoted the red culture gene and vigorously developed red tourism. It now has become an important travel destination of Chun’an county in light of red tourism.
Longchuan Bay 龙川湾
The natural scenery in the scenic area is beautiful, and the ecological environment is excellent. You can also experience eating from the communal pot and watching old movies to personally experience the lives of the "sent-down" youths.
Qiandao Lake Fish Street 千岛湖鱼街
Qiandao Lake Fish Street is located in the beautiful Qiandaohu Town at the junction of Nanjing Road and Menggu Road, about one kilometer away from Qiandao Lake tourist wharf. It is a must-pass for tourists traveling by high-speed railway and highway to get to the tourist wharf. The aim of the fish street is not just about becoming the largest dining venue in Qiandao Lake, but more about being a scenic area providing citizens and tourists an ideal place to view fish, be close to fish, play with fish and taste fish.
Jiu Pao Jie 九咆界
Jiu Pao Jie Scenic Area is located in Shangxi Village, Pingmen Town, on the periphery of Qiandao Lake, Chun'an County. It is named for the nine roaring waterfalls in various shapes. It features undulating mountains, peaks contending for beauty, dense forest and lush green bamboo, plunging waterfalls and flowing streams and peculiar-shaped peaks and rocks can be seen everywhere. There are nine waterfalls of different heights and different sizes. The tourism landscape resources are superior and the natural ecological environment is excellent.
Forest Oxygen Bar 森林氧吧
The mountain inside the Qiandao Lake Forest Oxygen Bar is not too high and is not hard to ascend. In addition, there are streams and waterfalls; the air is fresh; many protected animals can be seen in the forest. It is one of the must-see attractions in Qiandao Lake.
Qinchuan Ancient Village 芹川古村
As the best-preserved historical and cultural village in Hangzhou, its exquisite historical architecture, unique traditional Chinese village layout, and vivid historical and cultural inheritance have always been highly reputable among people.
Chun’an County Diaoyu Island
淳安县钓鱼岛景区
Qiandao Lake Diaoyu Island is the first recreational fishery park in China and the only urban tourist attraction in Qiandaohu Town where people can eat fish, view fish, go fishing, purchase fish and have fun. The place is set with an international fishing field, a Qiandao Lake fish tasting restaurant, a sport fishing boat club, a fish engraving experience center, etc.
Dongshan Peak Sports Forest Park
东山尖运动森林公园
Dongshan Peak is the tallest peak around Qiandao Lake with an elevation of 978 meters. It has a magic valley where trees thrive and the air is fresh. Here, you can hike along ancient trails, view peculiar-shaped rocks, drink from a mountain spring, breathe the fresher than fresh air and enjoy the tranquility rarely seen in the urban world. It features distinct scenery in all four seasons. It is selected as one of the Ten Beautiful Mountains in Zhejiang for its elegance, uniqueness and beautifulness and is a great place for outdoor sports.
Lanna Leisure and Sightseeing Park
兰纳休闲观光园
Lanna acts on the principals of ecologicalization, develops on the basis of fully utilizing natural ecological and agricultural resources, emphasizes the landscaping and tourist experience of the agriculture industry, and develops leisure agricultural products integrating agriculture sightseeing, culture experience, leisure and vacation to build a well-known leisure agriculture industry park in Chun’an County.