西湖，是一首诗，一幅天然图画，一个美丽动人的故事，不论是多年居住在这里的人还是匆匆而过的旅人，无不为这天下无双的美景所倾倒。 阳春三月，莺飞草长。苏白两堤，桃柳夹岸。两边是水波潋滟，游船点点，远处是山色空蒙，青黛含翠。此时走在堤上，你会被眼前的景色所惊叹，甚至心醉神驰，怀疑自己是否进入了世外仙境。
而西湖的美景不仅春天独有，夏日里接天莲碧的荷花，秋夜中浸透月光的三潭，冬雪后疏影横斜的红梅，更有那烟柳笼纱中的莺啼，细雨迷蒙中的楼台------无论你在何时来，都会领略到不同寻常的风采。
西湖十景形成于南宋时期，基本围绕西湖分布，有的就位于湖上。苏堤春晓、曲苑风荷、平湖秋月、断桥残雪、柳浪闻莺、花港观鱼、雷峰夕照、双峰插云、南屏晚钟、三潭印月，西湖十景个擅其胜，组合在一起又能代表古代西湖胜景精华，所以无论杭州本地人还是外地山水客都津津乐道，先游为快。
新西湖十景是一九八五年经过杭州市民及各地群众积极参与评选，并由专家评选委员会反复斟酌后确定的，它们是：云栖竹径、满陇桂雨、虎跑梦泉、龙井问茶、九溪烟树、吴山天风、阮墩环碧、黄龙吐翠、玉皇飞云、宝石流霞。
其它景点还有保叔挺秀、长桥旧月、古塔多情、湖滨绿廊、花圃烂漫、金沙风情、九里云松、梅坞茶景、西山荟萃、太子野趣、植物王国、中山遗址、灵隐佛国、岳王墓庙
West Lake西湖
The famous West Lake is like a brilliant pearl embedded in the beautiful and fertile shores of the East China Sea near the mouth of the Hangzhou Bay. The lake covers an area of 5.6 square kilometers. The view of the West Lake is simply enchanting, which offers many attractions for tourists at home and abroad.
Tiger-running Spring
The legend goes that two tights ran there and made a hole where a spring gushed out. The Longjing Tea and the Tiger-running Spring water are always reputed as the "Two Wonders of the West Lake".
The Lingyin Monastery
The Lingyin Monastery, or the Monastery of Soul's Retreat, is a famous historical site of the West Lake. Here exists the Lingyin Monastery, a famous ancient temple in China, in front of which there are Feilai Peak, Cold Spring, Longhong Cave and precious rock cave arts and queer and varied natural caves and gullies.
Spring Dawn at Su Causeway
It's a 2.8 km. long boulevard cutting across the south-north scenic area, and lined with trees and flowering plants. When Spring comes with crimson peach blossoms and GREen willows; the scenery is all the more charming. Strolling along the boulevard, one feels as if the West Lake were wakening in dawn mist. Young willows were ethereal, spring breeze so caressing, and birds were chirping in unison.
The Moon Reflected in Three Pools
"There are islands in the lake and three are lake on the islands." The three stone towers were first built in Yuanyou 4th year (1089) of the Song Dynasty, with the wonderful scenery of "one moon in the sky having three reflection in the lake", it is one of the wonderful scenes of the West Lake.
Notes:
1. West Lake 西湖
2. Tiger-running Spring 虎跑泉
3. The Lingyin Monastery 灵隐寺
4. Spring Dawn at Su Causeway 苏堤春晓
5. The Moon Reflected in Three Pools 三潭印月
