Suzhou · Neighborhoods · REF #1210877
Suzhou: Master of the Nets Garden Night Tour with Pingtan Performance
Suzhou's only UNESCO garden that opens after dark — Master of the Nets Garden by lantern, with live Pingtan ballad performances in 8 pavilions.
- Duration
- 4 hour
- Destination
- Suzhou
- Languages listed
- EN-GB, ar, de, es-419, ru, en, pt-BR, fr, es, zh
About this experience
Wangshi Yuan (Master of the Nets Garden) is the smallest and most-celebrated of Suzhou's Ming-dynasty classical gardens, and the only one that opens for evening tours March-November. Your guide picks you up at 6:30pm, dines you at a canal-side Suzhou restaurant (signature: Songshu Guiyu — 'squirrel mandarin fish'), then escorts you into the lantern-lit garden. Eight rotating pavilions stage 5-minute performances: Pingtan ballad-singing with pipa, Kunqu opera arias, guqin solo, Suzhou silk-string ensemble, and shadow puppetry. Move at your own pace through the candlelit rockeries and reflecting pool. Return by 10:30pm.