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Arrival by the lake
- Morning
- Arrival; lake-view boutique check-in.
- Afternoon
- Slow first walk: causeways, willows, lotus. Early night.
- Evening
- Light medicinal-diet dinner (yaoshan) near the lake.
Tours / 4-7 days · Gentle pace
Healing Hangzhou
Tea Mountains & TCM Restore
2–6 travelers 5 days Hangzhou Monthly, April–October
Five days of deliberate restoration in China's retreat city: a licensed TCM consultation, qigong with monks, a full day on the tea terraces, and West Lake at dawn.
How wellness fits this journey
This is our wellness flagship — and it is still a travel journey: mornings are practice and treatment, afternoons are walking, tea, and the lake. Wellness sits alongside discovery, never instead of it.
Itinerary, day by day
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First practice
- Morning
- Qigong and sitting meditation in a working monastery's courtyard.
- Afternoon
- Vegetarian temple lunch, then a tea-house rest and West Lake boat.
- Evening
- Free; hot-spring option.
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The consultation
- Morning
- Full TCM diagnosis with a licensed practitioner — pulse, tongue, questions.
- Afternoon
- Tailored tuina bodywork; herbal tea prescription to take home.
- Evening
- Quiet dinner; early rest.
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Tea mountain day
- Morning
- Into the Longjing terraces: pick with the farmers, fire in the wok.
- Afternoon
- Lunch in the village; walk the bamboo paths above it.
- Evening
- Guesthouse dinner on the hill; the day's tea, drunk properly.
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Integration
- Morning
- Personalized morning: follow-up session, lake dawn walk, or sleeping in — prescribed.
- Afternoon
- Departure transfer, restored.
What's included
- 4 nights (2 lake-view, 2 tea-hill guesthouse)
- All wellness sessions: TCM consultation, tuina, qigong, temple lunch
- Full tea-terrace day with farming family
- English-speaking guide, daily breakfast, 3 signature meals
- Flights/trains in and out
- Insurance
- Additional treatments
- Personal expenses
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