South of the six ancient towns - Luzhi

There are so many ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River that only the six major ancient towns are the representatives of the rivers and lakes in the south. Want to go to the water? Look at these six towns is enough!
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Luzhi | Jiangnan "bridge"

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Thirty-six miles east of the city of Suzhou, there is an ancient town with a rich watery customs. This is the Luzhi town known as the first town of Shenzhou water town by the famous sociologist Fei Xiaotong. Although its reputation is not Zhouzhuang, Wuzhen so loud, but its water features, historical facts are not lost at all. Some people say that straightforward is the "bridge" in the south of the Yangtze River. When you walk into a straight road, you will find that there is nothing wrong with it. This historic town with a mellow watery southern Yangtze River features water and bridges. It is said that the straight bridge The density of the "world's best." The town of clear water, the environment elegant, those places of interest, ancient bridge, ancient street, ancient house and more than 1,300 years of ancient ginkgo trees are very much like, see all marvel.
Representative works : "Journey to the West", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "siege", "sprinkling the world are love", "Rose whirlpool"
Famous attractions : Paul holy temple, ginkgo tree, Shen house, Xiao house
local specialty : Ducks duck, dried radish, pickled cucumber

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Address : Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Xiaoshi Road
Transportation :
① departure from the train station: train can take the first to North Station in Suzhou or Kunshan South Station, and then went to take the bus to straight; Suzhou Railway Station Square in front of air-conditioned travel CMB direct;
② departure from the airport: Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Pudong Airport has a bus bound for Suzhou, the way straight;
③ departure from Suzhou: Suzhou City by bus 518,52,18 Road can be straight;
④ starting from Hangzhou: Hangzhou East Railway station in Suzhou car ride to South station, then take the road to 52;
⑤ from Shanghai: the Shanghai Zhongshan bus station by shuttle bus or air-conditioned tourist buses
tickets : 78 yuan / Zhang
opening hours : 8: 00-17: 00 (May-October); 8: 00-16: 30 (mid-October - April)

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☆   Luzhi the most beautiful inn 丨 Jiangnan six ancient town of the last poetic!

In the inky south, holding an oil paper umbrella, in the gray wall Daiwa ancient alley, under the rain on the Qing Shiban Road, walked quietly and slowly looked. Although after a thousand years of vicissitudes, the six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River still preserve the original Jiangnan features of "bridges, water and people" intact, and each one seems to be in the same dream Can not help feeling: the years are quiet.

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