West Lake (Hangzhou)

西湖风景名胜区

China's most storied lake, West Lake has inspired poets and painters for a thousand years — and its UNESCO-listed landscape of causeways, pagodas, and lotus-fringed shores still delivers. Walk the Su and Bai causeways, cruise to the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, climb Leifeng Pagoda at dusk, and linger in teahouses where the city's slow soul shows.