Haining attracts the attention of travelers, owing to the spectacular annual tides that rush up the Qiantang River. Each year, thousands of tourists from around the world flock to Haining to watch the famous tide bore.
When the tide approaches, the sight of its mighty surge has been compared to the sight of ten thousand horses racing side by side across an open plain. The height of this special tidal wave can reach 9 meters. Its earthshaking sound rumbles across the water like muffled thunder, its crushing force eerily reminiscent of that of an avalanche which gains speed as the momentum of its cumulative weight propels it forward.
Watching the Qiantang tidal wave began since Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. The watching of Qiantang tidal wave was popular in Ming and Qing Dynasty and has been developed as a "successive tidal-wave watching" tourist item (one tide-wave, three watching and four scenarios) nowadays. Firstly, watching the "head-on" tide-wave at Da-Que-Kou, it looks like the bursting of glacier and the lifting up of silver pillar (see the invite bid item of Da-Que-Kou head-on tide-wave vacation-spending area). Then watching the "tide-wave in string view" at Yanguan. It looks like a white chain across the river, and the spurting snow o n the roaring waves. Finally, watching the "turn round" tide-wave at Lao-Yan-Cang. It looks like the upright terrifying tidewave and the momentum of an avalanche (see the invite bid item of Lao-Yan-Cang turn round tidewave comprehensive tourism area). If you watch the tide-wave in night, it shows fine spectacles and looks like the silvery tide-wave with the reflection of moon in it, and the sparks of tide-wave flying in the sky. The same tide-wave with several scenarios is indeed a spectacle in the world and wins everybody's admiration
Traffic
Bus: Haining train station-Yanguang 10RMB
Fee and opening hours
Admission 15RMB/20RMB
Opening hours 8:00-16:30
Tips:
Pay attention when you watching the tide and eating local seafood.