A one-day hiking trip in Xinchang, Shaoxing, where the scenery is beautiful but my legs are now wasted

🌈 Xinchang County, Shaoxing City, a 5A tourist city, is the birthplace of landscape poetry and painting in China. Tiantai Mountain, the Great Buddha Temple, and the Chuan Yan Nineteen Peaks are its three major attractions. As someone who is not good at climbing, I chose the 🟠Great Buddha Temple🟠 and Drum Mountain Park as my one-day trip destinations. As a result, I walked a total of 26,000 steps at the two attractions, which completely exhausted my legs 🙃 but it was worth the trip. 🏃Route‼️ Hangzhou East Station → 50 minutes to Shengzhou Xinchang High-speed Railway Station → Taxi to the Great Buddha Temple → Walk 600 meters to Drum Mountain Park → Walk 700 meters to Wozhou Road Food Street for dinner → Return trip —————🌸Great Buddha Temple🌸———— The Great Buddha Temple scenic area is too large, covering 25 square kilometers and featuring Shuanglin Grottoes, Thousand Buddha Monastery, Buddha Heart Square, Shooting Eagle Village, Petrified Forest Dinosaur Park, Buddha Mountain Holy Land, Five Hundred Arhats Cave, Prajna Valley, Qiguang Zen Monastery, and the Southern Dynasty ancient temple. It takes 4 hours to visit all of them. 🌟🌈 Inside the ancient temple of more than 1600 years, surrounded by mountains, with strange rocks and ancient trees, it is known as the 'Ancient Stone Temple' and is also the filming location for TV dramas 'Lotus Tower' and 'As Life Goes On'. ∽ ∽👇Key Recommendations👇∽∽ 1⃣🔻 The largest Buddha in the south of the Yangtze River (Maitreya Buddha stone statue), carved during the Qi Yongming period of the Southern Dynasties, is a representative work of early stone grotto sculptures in the south of the Yangtze River. The Buddha is integrated with the mountain, and the outer niche hall was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty in 1411. The three-story, five-bay Buddha pavilion is majestic and is a national cultural heritage. 2⃣🔻 Thousand Buddha Monastery, a national cultural heritage, with more than a thousand statues that predate the Great Buddha, unfortunately severely damaged during a special period. 3⃣🔻 Reclining Buddha Hall, located above the Shuanglin Grottoes, known as 'Asia's First Reclining Buddha', with mountain walls covered in relief sculptures. 4⃣🔻 Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda, within Qiguang Zen Monastery, 9 stories high, visitors can climb to the top for a distant view, closes at 3:30 pm. 📍Address: No. 117, People's West Road, Xinchang County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province 💰Ticket price: 80 yuan 📌Tips： 🔹➡️ Take Xinchang Route 22/G4 from Shengzhou Xinchang High-speed Railway Station directly; a taxi is about 9 kilometers and costs more than 20 yuan. 🔹➡️ The shortest route from Buddha Heart Square to Prajna Valley; if you walk from the Liberation Pool, it will take an extra 30 minutes. 🔹➡️ There is a restaurant in Buddha Heart Square. 🔹➡️ There is a round-trip electric car from the scenic entrance to Buddha Heart Square, 5 yuan for a single trip. ————🌸Drum Mountain Park🌸———— If you are looking for a landmark theme park on the Tang Poetry Road, Drum Mountain Park is the place to be. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, literati and scholars roamed and gathered in this area; by the Tang dynasty, poets like Li Bai also started their journey here to 'seek Wang Xu in Shanyin'. 👉 Tiantai Pavilion, climb the pavilion for a distant view of the main peak of Tiantai Mountain, and feel the majestic atmosphere of 'Tiantai connecting to the sky'. 👉 Li Bai Memorial Hall, learn about the past and present of the Tang Poetry Road. 👉 Tang Poetry Road Museum, recreating the scene of 'Wei and Jin's lofty spirit, Southern Dynasty's holy traces; Tang dynasty's fragrant ink, a journey of scenery and poetry'. 👉 Drum Mountain Academy, founded during the Northern Song Dynasty's Tianxi era, is one of the more orderly academies in the south of the Yangtze River. 📍Address: Walk 600 meters northwest from the exit of the Great Buddha Temple 💰Ticket price: Free 📌Tips: All the pavilions in the park close at 16:00, visitors can enter by scanning a WeChat QR code or registering with an ID card.