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SUZHOU, CHINA · AN INDEPENDENT TRAVEL GUIDEA little closer to life by the canal.

Photographs · 山塘街

The street, in frames.

Daylight on the water. A bridge, a shopfront, an evening glow. Click any photograph to see it larger.

White walls, dark tiles and houses at the water’s edge. — The everyday canalExisting site photograph

A stone crossing and a new perspective on the street. — Tonggui Bridge钉钉 · 2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Licence

A restaurant frontage recorded in 2020. — Songhelou on Shantang Street钉钉 · 2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Licence

An evening photograph from 2018; the street keeps changing. — After the lanterns glowLiuxingy · 2018 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Licence

Archive photographs document their capture dates, not current opening hours or conditions. Commons images are displayed with responsive cropping; original files and licences are linked above.