On the south of Longjing (Dragon Well) and 10 kilometers away from the West Lake, Nine Creeks and Eighteen Gullies is a beautiful and quiet scene of waters in mountains with creeks as the theme and mountains and trees as the background. 

It originates from Yangjiawu of Yangmeiling Mountain and the successively integrates the streamlets from Qingwan, Hongfa, Fangjia, Baizhang, Tangjia, Foshi, Yunxi, Zhutou and Xiaokang into creeks and flow into Qiantang River through Xucun. 

Now it has Pavilion of Creek of Creeks, Forest Ocean Paviliion and Jiuhong Pavilion. On the southwest of Yanxia Cave, Eighteen Gullies originate from Longjing Village, flow around the forested mountains and integrate many brooks like Shirenyu, Sunwenlong, Jiguanlong into gullies. Thus Nine Creeks and Eighteen Gullies comes into being. 

Best time for sightseeing: 
During the period of abundant water season(April to October).