2 Days Wuxi Tour with Yuantouzhu & Lingshan Buddha From Suzhou

DAY 1

In the morning, your will be picked up by your local tour guide with a welcome signage "Wuxi Private Tour" and drive you to Wuxi directly. It takes around 1h for one way. Two days Wuxi tour includes the following attraction and activities.

Our Wuxi Tour Pick Up Sign "Wuxi Private Tour"

You'll visit Turtle Head Island (Yuantouzhu Park). It is praised as the "wonder among wonders around the Taihu Lake" by a famous Chinese poet, Yuantouzhu is actually a peninsula occupying the northwest part of the lake. The place is named after its turtle-head-like appearance and known as a must-see spot within the area. The pavilions, bridges, and small ponds of the lakeside gardens are designed to accentuate the beauty of the natural landscape, not create an artificial landscape as many traditional Chinese gardens try to do, especially those in Suzhou.

The best way to experience the beauty of the Lake Tai is to take boat out to one of the three small islands that lie off the shores of the peninsula. They are known as the "Islands of Immortals," since classical authors imagined that Daoist sages and nature spirits would be drawn to a place of such great natural beauty, and also separated from the human world by the lake.

After the tour ends, drive you to your hotel.

DAY 2

After breakfast, your tour guide will wait you at your hotel lobby, today, you'll explore Lingshan Buddha Scenic Area.

The Lingshan Grand Buddha is one of the largest, tallest and most representative collections of Buddhism architecture and art in China, which is an 71-meter-high bronze statue of Sakyamuni in the open air, 17 meters higher than the Grand Buddha at Leshan. Lingshan Buddha was built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang Dynasty), depicting Maitreya.

Then move on to Wuyou Temple, located at the South of the Giant Buddha, which visitors pass on the way from the ferry to the Buddha. A pink-walled monastery founded in 742 AD, it has impressive decorations including splendid gate guardians, painted scenes from the Journey to the West (on the second hall) and amusing sculptures of arhats (inside the Louhan Hall). On the other side of the gully on Lingyun Shan, there are signs for Han-dynasty tomb chambers, which suggest this site was sacred before the Buddha was carved.

Continue your tour to Nine-Dragon Fountain, it sit in front of the giant Buddha will startto play the music of trombones and the song of The Birth of Buddha at 10:00 am everyday. Huge lotus' slowly bloom with six petals, and a 7.2-meter gold-gilt prince statue of Buddha rise from the lotus, with one hand pointing to the sky and one hand pointing at the earth, symbolizing Buddha appearing from the blooming flower and Buddha's light shining on all things.

The final sight is Brahma Palace on Lingshan Mountain lasted for two years. Open to public in 2008, its splendid and marvellous design surprised every visitor. The whole palace shows the integration of the traditional cultural elements with western architectural features, embodying the extension, profoundness and loftiness of Buddhism. Many cultural heritage and art works can be found here.

After the tour ends, you'll be transferred back to Wuxi.

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