Taste the Best Chinese Tea
As the most famous green tea in China, Longjing tea tops the list of China's ten famous teas. If you are a tea fan, this tea culture tour will thoroughly satisfy your thirst. You will have the chance to enter a tea plantation and pick tea-leaves, visit a tea farmer's house and stir-fry tea, learn the art of tea-making, and taste local tea snacks, also enjoy the beautiful scenery of West Lake. We offer you an exclusive experience customized to your requirements.
Tour Highlights
Step into the Best Tea Plantations and Pick Tea Leaves
Learn the Process of Stir-frying from a Local Tea Specialist
Enjoy a Bird's-eye View over Hangzhou and West Lake
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A wonderful Hangzhou
2nd time visit Hangzhou. From the high-speed train station, greeted by the tour guide Mr Eleven, transported to the hotel Indigo at around 10pm. Thanks for his arrangement for a fast food delivery through his mobile delivery order, managed to settle the dinner problem. Throughout the Hangzhou tour, he has shown a very care taking tour guide especially if your group has an old, aged person. Well guided and during the departure time, a very clear instructions to clear the train station customs and ticketing process. Well done more
Jul 2025, Mak C
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Wonderful, magical HangZhou, beautiful and relaxing
This is a wonderful, magical city for a summer holiday. Lakes, boats, bridges, lovely gardens , pagodas , temples, a musical fountain extravaganzas each night for free and the food is incredible. Our guide Susan was top of the class, beautiful use of English, practical efficient all you could wish for plus fun. We were there in the rainy season and it’s best to visit in spring, but we loved it and would have been happy to stay longer. We had one day of biblical rain, umbrellas are a must and local ones also provided protection against UV damage. Our trip to Wuzhen water village was delightful, worth a stay overnight to see the lights, next time for us. China is an incredible country with so much to offer. more
Jul 2025, Kathleen W
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Great day trip with Eleven, our tour guide
Eleven was our tour guide and he was energetic. We had a memorable time at a tea plantation picking tea leaves and sampling teas. We also went to the West Lake area which was filled with tourists and had been recommended that we stay a night near West Lake, but we chose to make it a day trip. We had a great tea learning about tea and one of the ancient capitals. more
Jul 2025, Carson L
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Suggested Itinerary
We'll pick you up in the morning from your hotel/ train station, and drive to the place of origin of the best Dragon Well tea – Meijiawu Tea Village. A local tea specialist will welcome you with bamboo baskets, and accompany you to the tea plantation. Your first task will be to choose appropriate tea leaves and pick them in the right way. After tea-picking, the tea specialist will take you home and show you the process of stir-frying tea. This process dehydrates the leaves and helps preserve their beautiful green color. If you like, you can have a go—be careful, though, the huge iron pot is very hot (around 200℃). The tea specialist will show you the art of the tea ceremony, and introduce you to the proper way to taste tea.
Introduction to our tea specialist
Born into a tea family, our tea specialist has been familiar with tea from childhood. With the family tea plantation as inspiration, our specialist is devoted to spreading China's tea culture, and has taken part in many international tea-promotion films.
After saying goodbye to the tea village, we'll drive to the China National Tea Museum. This is China's only museum dedicated to tea. There you will see tea exhibits and precious teaware, and will learn about the general history and classification of tea.
At Chenghuang Pavilion you can have a bird's-eye view over Hangzhou and West Lake. You will have a break and enjoy a Southern Song Dynasty Snacks here.
In the afternoon have a relaxing visit to West Lake, one of the major landmarks of Hangzhou. Stroll alongside the lake, and take a cruise to Fairy Island.
After the tour we will escort you to your hotel/ train station.
Tour Price
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