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杭州西湖英语导游词Ladies and Gentlemen,Good morning! Im a tour guide . My name is ... I’m very glad to accompany you all to visit the west Lake. I’ll try my best to make your tour an enjoyable one. I expect your support and cooperation. If you have any questions or demands, please let me know and I?ll do my utmost to accommodate your needs. Thank you!As a popular saying goes,“there is a paradise above, so are there Hangzhou and Suzhou below”. In the 13th century, Marco Polo came to Hangzhou and declared it to be “the finest, most splendid city in the world...where so many pleasure may be found that one fancies oneself to be in the paradise.” The annual visitor to this paradise amount to 20 millions, ten times as many as the local residents. But you will not feel crowded here because the lake is large, walkways are wide, the causeways are long.The focus of the exceptionally beautiful city is west Lake. west Lake covers an area of 6.38 square kilometers. The average depth is 2.27meters with deepest being 5 meters. It is 3 miles across and 9 miles around, with islets and temples, pavilions and gardens, causeways and arched bridges, flowers and trees. Three sides of the lake are surrounded by verdant mountains and one side the prosperous city. After a large scale reconstruction, the current west Lake has recovered the panorama over 300 years before when it reached the most prosperous period in history。All these have made Hangzhou’s west Lake“a landscape composed by a painter.”west Lake or Xī Hú is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic area of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. It evolved from a shallow bay through which the qiantang River flowed into the East China Sea. In the ancient times it was called wulin waters, Golden Buffalo Lake, qiantang Lake and Xizi Lake.The name of west Lake was fixed as early as the Tang Dynasty . In the Song Dynasty , the Chinese renownedpoet Su Dongpo wrote a poem to praise the west Lake and compared it to X