Highlights: Tianhe Ecological Scenic Area, Boat Floating on Baixi Reservoir, Enjoy Hot Spring

Afternoon: At approx. 13:00pm, you will meet your local English-speaking guide in Ninghai county. It is a county in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of China, resides at the middle section of East Zhejiang's coastal line, adjoining Hangzhou and Shanghai on the south. It is one of the first regions opening up to the outside world. 

 

Begin your tour with visiting to Tianhe Ecological Scenic Area. It is 29 km from Ninghai City. Covering an area of over 100 sq km, and with a typical topographic feature of volcanic rock, the Dasongxi Gorge is well known for its "Four Unique Landscapes" of peaks, crags, caves and waterfalls. There, you will have a short experience on Boat Floating on Baixi Reservoir at first. "Green mountains like screens surround the lake of blue water like a mirror", this is what you can feel when you sit in the boat floating. For its magnificent green mountains lining along the banks, the reservoir is known as "the Three Gorges of Ningbo" and "the Grand Gorges of East Zhejiang".

Upon arrival at the pier, you will hike around 1 hour. The area is well known for “steep peaks, quiet valleys, wonderful water, exotic stone, mysterious roots and fantastic mists” and conquers the tourists at home and abroad who come to visit it in admiration of its fame with its “primitiveness, mystery, wildness, majesty and oddness”.

After that, you will be transferred to your hotel, which is located in Ninghai County northwest, Shenzhen Nanxi territory, 76 km away from the urban area, with 9267 acres of forest resources.

 

Accommodation: Ninghai Hot Spring Hotel or similar (4-star)

   

Highlights: Ninghai Bund, Xuxiake Road, Qiantong Ancient Town

Morning: After breakfast at your hotel, you are going to visit Ninghai Bund and Xuxiake Road. Strolling along there to feel the local life and enjoy the great and beautiful natural scene around. Then, drive to Qiantong Ancient Town for a visit. Among the 2,000 household there 80% of them have “Tong” as the surname. As it is located in front of Baixi River, it is so named Qiantong (“Qian” means “Before”). Since more than 760 years ago, the Tong’s offspring have lived in this place. Many of the old houses maintain their original appearances as in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The village covers an area of only 2 sq. km with a dense population and close buildings. There are pebble pathways, folk houses, old streets and an ancestral hall. The highlights here are the ancestral hall, old houses and old streets. 

Afternoon: Lunch is on your own. Then, your own transfer back to your home.

End of your memorable trip in Ninghai County.

 

 

  

 

 

Nanxi Hot Spring of Ninghai: 

Nanxi Hot Spring lies in Nanxi Village of Shentianchuan Township, 76 kilometers to the downtown of Ninghai County. With a forest resource of 9,627 hectares, the scenic area was approved by the State Department of Forestry in 1991 as a national forest park, and thus it became one of the ten best scenic spots in Ningbo. As a well-known hot-spring resort in Zhejiang, the park is featured in its peaceful mountains, clear waters and dense forests. 

Ninghai Nanxi Hot Spring is known as fairy water and is the treasure of the Chinese nation. Overlooking the whole area, the hot spring looks like a dragon lying across gracefully. Legend has it that the hot spring is the incarnation of a dragon fairy, and it is the dragon vein that the hot spring is coming from. 

According to the experts, Nanxi Hot Spring area has a large hot water storage with a constant temperature between 49.5 and 51 degrees Celsius annually. It contains rich mineral elements of niton, lithium, Strontium (Sr), fluorine, Potassium (K), calcium and others, different from that of sulphur springs. Pure and transparent, alkalescent, with a PH value of 7.9, the spring comes from its headstream 158 meters under the stratum, and its daily outcome volume is 1200 tons, which mainly contains Radon, and also other chemical elements such as F, Mg, Na, etc. Have a bath in such water will moisturize the skin, refresh the mind and it has obvious curative effects for various kinds of skin diseases, arthritis, nerve and digestion system disorder and heart and vessel diseases. Besides, it also has the function of cancer prevention, hair blackening, tension easing, hypnosis and pain relieving. The hot spring is one of the few middle temperature hot springs rich in sodium carbonate, and well deserves its reputation as the unique treasure in East China. 

The summer here, whose temperature is 3-5 degrees Celsius lower than that of Hangzhou and Ningbo, is a tourist, summer, recuperation, vacation and leisure resort unwonted in East China.

Open time: 12:00pm-17:00pm between Mon. and Thu. 
                   9:30am-12:30am between Fri. and Sun. 

Tip: -Prepare the swimsuit before entering the Hot Spring.
       -SPA Entrance fee includes: Indoor Hot Spring, Outdoor Hot Spring, SPA with fish treatment, Snooker/Billiards, Film, Gymnasium, Swimming pool, Wave pool and buffet snack at the restaurant etc.
       -Beauty Salon/Manicure, Massage fee etc is on your own.

 

 

 

 

Qiantong Ancient Town: 

Qiantong, Ninghai is a special ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River. About 10km from downtown Ninghai. In late Song Dynasty the ancestors of the Tong's came to this land and were attracted by it. They decided to settle here and then built a village. Since then it has been named Qiantong. The village was built on the basin among two mountains and two rivers. The former refers to Tashan Mountain in the east and Lushan Mountain in the west; while the latter refers to Baixi River in the south and LianghuangRiver in the north. The Tong's ancestors, who were very good at geographical surveying, chose this place as their home, because they liked Baixi River, which originated from Tiantai Mountain, passed the village by its front and run into Sanmen Bay. For generations people in Qiantong Village irrigated their land with the water from the river. Their ancestors also introduced the river into the village, following the principle of the Eight Diagrams of Chinese Taoism, and built Water Eight Diagrams there.

 

Today, what a tourist see in the Qiantong old town - the winding pebble-paved paths, old courtyards, carved beams and painted rafters, the weathered stone mortar, water basin, carved handrails, the 600-year-old well and others, makes him/her think of the historical vicissitudes and rich cultural buildup of this place. One will surely soar the sentiments about the past. Many movies have been shot in this place, including the new movie Music Box produced by the late artist and director Chen Yifei, which have vividly depicted the old town's charm .