Since the Evening Tour was opened to public , toruists and citizens can enjoy a new mode , known as the self-rowing boat tour to excurse on the West Lake . From The May Day Holiday , Looking around The West Lake with a self-rowing boat at night becomes the tourists' favorite . Especially , tourists love the lamp on fore, known as a kind of signals to avoid boat-impact , which enable them to imagine the ancient and contemporary West Lake . "The trip on The West Lake with such a boat is agreeable and romantic " , said the tourists .