Hidden Gems in Shengzhou, Shaoxing | Beautiful Scenery and Few Tourists

Start: Nanshanhu Village End: Shaqiu Village 🏞️Total distance: about 10 km, total elevation gain: about 350 m 🚶🏻‍♀️Estimated hiking time: about 5 hours 🚾Toilets: Start, end (toilets are a bit dirty), about 6 km in Guimen Village (where you can eat tofu rice cakes) 🍲Supplies: Start, Guimen Village ✅Highlights: ⛰️Nanshan Reservoir: A very high-altitude reservoir with three long flights of stairs. The mountains and water are beautiful on a sunny day. ⛰️Genglou Ancient Path: Very wild, some sections require both hands and feet, mostly dirt roads and stairs ⛰️Lumen Academy: The most cultural site, where Zhu Xi, a Neo-Confucian scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, once taught ⛰️Guimen: Meet your benefactor at Guimen ⛰️Tea Garden: Gentle trail with many reeds ⛰️Xiangbi Reservoir: Metasequoia trees line both banks, perfect for autumn