Nínghǎi

Ninghai lies between the eastern Zhejiang coast and the mountains of Tiantai. In 1613 the traveller Xu Xiake left its west gate on foot, heading towards Lianghuang Mountain and the paths to Tiantai. His account of that journey opens his surviving travel diaries. The route crossed streams and ridges before reaching temples and the heights of the mountain, recording the landscape through the eyes of an inquisitive Ming traveller.