Wuxi Travel

Turtle-head Peninsula was the first visiting stop of our Wuxi tour. Located northwest of Taihu Lake, its shape likes a turtle stretching its head into the lake, hence the name. This is the best venue to appreciate Taihu Lake. And there are thousands of cherry trees. Every spring when cherry trees are in blossoms, numerous tourists swarm here to appreciate the spring view of Taihu Lake and these amazing cherry blossoms...

In the morning, the tour guide and the driver picked us up in our Shanghai hotel and then transfer us to Wuxi. It is around 2-hour driving from Shanghai to Wuxi...

Wuxi, also named "Liangxi", is a famous city with a long history in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Wuxi,a sparkling pearl of the Taihu Lake , is situated in the southern part of Jiangsu Province and in the middle of the Shanghai and Nanjing city. It is 128km away from Shanghai with Suzhou in between and 183km away from Nanjing with Changzhou in between. With the Taihu lake in the south and the south and the Yangtze River in the north, it borders Zhejiang Province and has bank of 35km along the Yangtze...

Huaxi, China — Ask not why the citizens of this village of 2,000, a few hours by car northwest of Shanghai, have built a 74-story skyscraper next to their prim town square. Everybody in China knows the answer: it is another step in their plan to create the communist utopia envisioned by Mao.

Huangting Food City has experienced many years in Wuxi ,and mainly offers all kinds of Square Cakes, Dumpling, Qing Dumpling, Honey Cake, Vegetarian Noodle, Steamed Bun Stuffed with Vegetable, Rice Noodle with Thin Beef, Small Steamed Bun, Sugar Taro, Tofu Pudding, Crab Shell Cake and vegetarian food. This food city is located at Chong’an District of Wuxi. The address of it is No. 58 Gongyuan Road.

In Wuxi, wontons and small steamed buns are popular with local people. The wontons are made of select pork, dried freshwater shrimp, eggs, shredded dry tofu and a thin egg wrapper. The small steamed buns are a traditional snack in Wuxi and have a history of one hundred years. They are made of fine flour and select materials, and are steamed in a small bamboo steamer. In autumn and winter, the buns are seasoned with crab flakes and called small steamed crab buns. To try these two snacks, visitors can go to Small Wang Xing Hundun Restaurant or Chaowang Hundun Restaurant.

There are many places of interests in Wuxi.Here are top 10 selected attractions.

Huishan clay figurines from East China's Jiangsu Province date back to 1,000 years ago. In the slack seasons, nearly all families in Wuxi make clay figurines. When festivals approaching, many people sell clay figurines at temple and market fairs....

The Yangcheng Hairy Crab or Yangcheng Da Zha Xie” in Chinese, this huge crab is far better than that of other places in meat and taste, and is reputed as the "King of Crab” The ordinary one weighs around a half catty while the bigger one around 0.7 to 0.8 catty. It is renowned for its tender meat, rich nutrition, fat ovary and digestive glands and dainty taste...

Wuxi, dubbed the "Little Shanghai", referring to its massive development in economy, is a city with a history of 3,000 years. When two fugitive princes found this area, where the tin deposits were abundant, they called it Youxi, meaning “has lots of tin” in Mandarin Chinese. Split into halves by the most gorgeous Lake Taihu, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east...