One of my favorite excurions of the entire trip, Tiger Hill (虎丘; Hu3qiu1) is a place you'll most likely read about and hear about before you go and maybe even while you're in Suzhou. While the hill is covered in dense forest growth, the place is still an excellent place to explore, starting with the bridge leading to the actual hill (partly pictured above).
In fact, aside from the entrance and a number of the buildings on the site, once the pagoda that adorns the hill is glimpsed, it would seem as if you were in India or one of the island nations of Southeast Asia instead of Southeastern China.
Interestingly enough the site has been a tourist attraction for centuries, possibly because of the numerous legends surrounding its creation and just the pure awesomeness of the place. The painted-over calligraphy on the walls and the pillars of this pavilion were actually inscriptions made by visitors to the place years ago.
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