Pick up from Hangzhou downtown hotel or Hangzhou Railway Station (City Station, No. 1 Huancheng Donglu, Hangzhou) at 9:00 am, your private guide will accompany you to explore the highlights of Hangzhou. You will firstly come to visit the splendid Lingyin Temple(Temple of Soul's Retreat), which was constructed about 1,600 years ago and one of the ten most famous Buddhist temples of China. The Temple contains an important collection of Buddhist literature and many other treasures, it is a great center of information for those who wish to study aspects of Chinese Buddhism in detail. Follow your guide and step up to the mountain, you will see a number of ingenious Buddha statues in the halls as well as pagodas and Buddhist grottoes. Then head to Hangzhou Dragon Well Tea Plantation to learn the production and sip the famous fragrant green tea.

Lunch will be arranged in a well-selected restaurant for you to taste the local food. Then continue the sightseeing to the tranquil West Lake. Taking a boat on the West Lake, and enjoy the charming scenery of water area surrounded by green hills and divided into many scenic spots by bridges, dykes and ancient buildings. Finish the cruise at Flower Harbor Park wharf, you will visit the Red Carp Pond (Viewing Fish at Flower Harbor) - one of top ten attractions at West Lake and features the flower harbor, red carps, peony flowers, a big lawn and dense woods. View the beautiful scenery and see thousands of red carp swimming in the pond. Afterwards, your guide and driver will drop you off at Hangzhou downtown hotel or Hangzhou Railway Station to conclude the tour.