Shaoxing Travel Guide

Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city situated between Hangzhou and Ningbo, near the point where the Cao'e River makes a near-perfect 90-degree turn before emptying into Hangzhou Bay at the confluence of the Qiantang River - or estuary/ river mouth, at this particular juncture. The entire land mass on which the city of Shaoxing sits - and neighboring Yuecheng as well - resembles one great marsh-like terrain, dotted with countless lakes and crisscrossed with numerous rivers and canals, some of the latter of which may well have been dug in order to drain parts of the terrain that was deemed suitable, once drained, for the purpose of building. The presence of so many waterways - and note that some of the wider canal-like bodies of water are in fact designated as lakes - means that the city of Shaoxing is characterized by bridges,... [ View Details ]