1) Tiger Hill Annual Fair When: February 1-8 What’s there: Chinese paper cutting, rabbit lanterns and rabbit-themed folk art, and a flower festival that features tulips, hyacinths and other beautiful flowers. 2. Lingering Garden (Liu Park) 2nd Annual ... Read More>>
Taihu Lake National Wetland Park in Suzhou recently launched a water sports center with an area of 20,000 square meters. Visitors can enjoy various activities including boat rowing, boat charging, water bicycling, and the list goes on. Read More>>
Turkey's world-renowned dance masterpiece “The Fire of Anatolia” will perform at Suzhou People’s Grand Hall on January 1st 2011. The Fire of Anatolia is hailed by the European media as one of the world’s three best dance companies ... Read More>>
According to reports, the Shanghai Expo Suzhou Pavilion will be moved to the Taihu Wetland Park, becoming a new provincial landmark. The Centre is expected to open in May of next year. Suzhou Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo See also: Taihu Lake: 5 ... Read More>>
Hotel Soul, which is located in the heart of Suzhou, officially opened a few days ago. It is the first international modern boutique hotel to open in the city. Combing a perfect fusion of technology, art, music and many other fashion elements in its ... Read More>>
Recently, in the Suzhou’s Dong Shan Biluo Scenic Area, a Tea Culture Museum has been completed and is open to visitors free of charge. The museum showcases the history and culture of Biluochun tea as well as tea culture exhibitions, leisure ... Read More>>
From October 15th to October 31st, the first Halloween carnival will open in Suzhou amusement park. Lovely jack-o-lanterns, supernatural beings, "bloody corpses” giant tarantulas and ghosts suddenly appearing beside you are sure to thrill ... Read More>>
The Taihu highway viaduct was officially opened on Sept. 27th. With it, it now takes only 15 minutes to drive from downtown Suzhou to Taihu Lake. Read More>>
Suzhou Amusement Park Street Culture Festival kicked off on Sept. 18th and will last until Oct. 7th. At the park, visitors can enjoy parade performances by Brazilian Samba girls, dance, live music and hip-hop performances, magic shows and other performing ... Read More>>
The 2010 Tiger Hill Temple Fair will begin on Saturday, September 25th and will continue for 23 days, ending on October 17th. For the duration of the fair, a well-known local performance troupe will be putting on two daily shows, including short plays, folk ... Read More>>
The first International Beer & Music Festival is to be held at Suzhou Stage (northern end of Xiandai Blvd in Suzhou Park Area, by the entrance of Industrial Park Area station with Shanghai-Nanjing high-speedRrail transit) from August 20th to 29th. At ... Read More>>
At around 16:40 on August 19th, a cluster of dark clouds had appeared on the western skies above Suzhou; the shape of the clouds are said to have resembled the contour of China on the map. There was even a ray of sunlight peaking through behind the clouds ... Read More>>
The first Sex Culture Exhibit has kicked off at the International Expo Center in Suzhou on the morning of August 19th. It is reported that this is the first of such events in Suzhou and it has even been called a “groundbreaking event in 5,000 years of ... Read More>>
Just recently, Suzhou Travel Information Center has opened up another office in Pingjiang Historic District. This is the third traveler help and information office set up in the city – two other offices are located at Bus Transport South Station and ... Read More>>
Ticket fares and train schedules for the newly opened Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity Railway have been announced. Tickets for the entire trip along the newly opened intercity railway are going up to 233 RMB. Suzhou to Nanjing first-class train tickets are 168 ... Read More>>
The 2010 15th Lotus and Tourism Festival kicked off on June 28th at the Humble Administrator’s Garden (also known as Zhuozheng Garden) in Suzhou. There are over 5,000 varieties of lotus flowers on display at the garden. A pond measuring 7,000 square ... Read More>>
Dragon Boat races will kick off at Taihu Cowboy Country Club in Suzhou from June 14-15th. During the event, some 40 teams will compete to win the reigning title. The resort is located within the Suzhou Taihu Lake National Tourism & Resort District ... Read More>>
The Geological Museum at the Taihu Xishan Geological Park in Suzhou has recently opened to visitors. It is constructed on an area measuring at total of 6,000 square meters and is a facility that has various exhibition halls – including an Earth hall, ... Read More>>
Starting early this month, Suzhou deployed 100 pedicabs in the Panmen Scenic Area as a new way to transport visitors around the area. There are four stops throughout the scenic area where visitors can take advantage of these new rides: at the front entrance ... Read More>>
To better serve Suzhou residents visiting the Expo in Shanghai, two Suzhou transportation centers (Suzhou Tour Center and Suzhou Passengers Transport Center) have launched shuttle and tour buses directly servicing the Shanghai Expo Park. Visitors can choose ... Read More>>
On May 8th, a leisure pedestrian walkway along the southern banks of the New Liuhe River in Taicang, Suzhou opened to visitors. This is phase one of ongoing renovations on the river-side Taicang walkway and dock. Completed phase one construction has ... Read More>>
On 19:30 on April 28th, the 13th Suzhou International Tourism Festival will start its opening ceremony with decorated ferries at Guxumen Plaza and on Huancheng River. The opening ceremony will feature 19 beautifully decorated ferries from different parts of ... Read More>>
Right now there are 3,203 cabs servicing the metropolitan area of Suzhou city, but local residents are still finding it hard to get a taxi whenever they need one. Suzhou government has elected to deploy 400 more taxis to the streets by the end of June to ... Read More>>
An Azalea Festival opened in Suzhou’s Humble Administrator’s Garden on Mar 29. The garden is decorated beautifully with more than 70,000 azaleas. The festival will run through May 10. Read More>>