Nine Creeks in Misty Forest
Braided mountain streams crossed on stepping stones through tea-covered hills once fenced off from the public.
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This guide to Nine Creeks in Misty Forest, in the hills above Hangzhou's West Lake, follows nine braided mountain streams crossed on stepping stones set right in the current, so wet feet are the plan rather than an accident. It traces how the area was walled off as a semi-private retreat through much of the twentieth century, with reservoirs and a hydroelectric station built in the 1950s, until the city tore the walls down in 2008. Along the tea gardens on the bluestone path, listen for the hidden grave of poet and reformer Chen Sanli, who once walked West Lake with Rabindranath Tagore.
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