The ancient city of Linhai in Taizhou is a hidden gem worth exploring

🏨 Ziyang Ancient Street, Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang 🚉Travel Tips: Take the high-speed train to 'Linhai', just over an hour from Hangzhou and over two hours from Shanghai. 🌟Highlights: A hidden gem of a millennium-old city, Taizhou Linhai! ❤Recommended Reason: The city of Taizhou was founded during the Eastern Jin Dynasty! It is a thousand-year-old city with a rich cultural heritage! With delicacies like sticky rice cakes, egg white lamb tails, rice cakes, and shrimp, it's another paradise for snack lovers. How can those who love sticky foods resist? Take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday or a weekend to stroll around! 🗓Itinerary: 1. Start at Xingshan Gate of the Prefecture City - Longxing Temple - Jinshan Park - Ziyang Ancient Street - Donghu Park - Chicheng Road (night market) - Ziyang Ancient Street (night market) 2. Visit the Prefecture City Wall from Lansheng Gate - Meiyuan (walk to Chaotian Gate) - descend from Xingshan Gate - Bear's Happy Harbor (direct bus available) 4. Taizhou Prefecture City Wall Built during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, known as the 'Great Wall of the South', it stretches 6 kilometers long. The 'Badaling of the South', with 198 steps at Lansheng Gate, is a challenge worth taking! The whole journey takes 2-3 hours! 5. Ziyang Ancient Street, the first ancient street in Zhejiang, a paradise of delicacies, with seaweed cakes, wheat shrimp, black rice sticky rice cakes, fried sticky rice cakes, flatbreads, wheat fat, wheat cakes, egg white lamb tails, white water Yang tofu, fire-baked buns, shrimp, ginger egg mix, green grass paste... It gathers almost all the local snacks of Taizhou in one street! With the recent New Year's Song Yun good events, various activities... filled with the festive atmosphere, the old street is worth a leisurely stroll! 6. Longxing Temple, a thousand-year-old temple with a well-preserved Tang Dynasty Thousand Buddha Pagoda 7. Jinshan Park, overlooking Linhai, Jinshan Pagoda Group 8. Donghu Park, established during the Northern Song Dynasty, a representative of Jiangnan gardens, comparable to Suzhou and Hangzhou, 'half of West Lake', with blooming plum blossoms, very beautiful and suitable for Hanfu 9. Chicheng Road, a bustling night market with bright lights at night 10. Meiyuan, a large area of plum blossoms at the Prefecture City Wall (Chaotian Gate area), is the best time for plum viewing 11. Bear's Happy Harbor, Linhai's own little Disney, with colorful facades, Ferris wheel, carousel, helicopter, various anime elements... fun to play for an afternoon! 📝Note tips: Local homestays and hotels are quite convenient 🍽Dining Recommendations: Renmin Road is full of small seafood eateries, brightly lit, with a strong local atmosphere. For local Taizhou snacks, head to Ziyang Ancient Street and try the Good Food Coming Tavern!