Xixi National Wetland Park

This guide to Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou follows the fishing families who have worked its flooded channels since a flood first drowned the land some five thousand years ago, through a Song-dynasty town the marsh eventually reclaimed. You'll hear how the Misty Water Fishing Village still teaches visitors handheld nets and old casts, and how egrets, kingfishers and migratory birds from as far as Siberia keep using these reed banks as a stopover. It ends by rowing toward a reed-fringed islet reachable only by boat.