Wow wow wow...... Here I am Hangzhou. This place is famous with their West Lake 西湖 and their Tea Plantation. From an old village to a modern city full with vehicles and car showroom plus restaurants.
A place to relax and explore especially their West Lake. Full with excitement when we reach Hangzhou.
First thing we do is to look for a nice food and a resonable price.
Here we are WAI PO JIA 外婆家 ( Grama House ) Restaurant.
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| Wai Po Jia restaurant |
After refill our stomach we start exploring the West Lake and round with car. Round the Lake we went to
Lei Fong Pagoda 雷峰塔, Dragon Well Tea ( Long Jing Tea ) 龙井茶, Duan Qiao (Broken Bridge) and visit Lou Wai Lou Restaurant 楼外楼. Lastly we went for a night market at He Fang Jie 河坊街.
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| He Fang Jie |
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| Ou Xiang Ju restaurant at Lei Feng Pagoda |
Second day we join a day trip to Shao Shing 绍兴 and historical hometown of Lu Xun. Beside learning the history we will try their local Siew Ben ( pancake )...
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| The local pancake with dry vege inside |
Besides Westlake, the East lake is also a great place to ride the Wu Peng Small Boat 乌篷船.
After a day trip back to West Lake my daughter decided to take me for our nice meal at Ling Long Xiao Zhen to celebrate my birthday hahaha......This is my birthday cake BIG and ROUND. Really awesome to have something different to try on.
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| Me and the Kung Fu Sesame ball 功夫芝麻球 |
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| very nice 菠萝油条虾 (prawn in you cha gui) |
And the sunset at Westlake must not be missed!!!
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| Sunset at Westlake |
Third day we proceed to Thousand island 千岛湖. At thousand island you can says i am crazy if i think of looking for thousand tiny tiny islands there hahaha.....Ahhhhh here is the picture to share with you all..
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| walking from one island to another through Zhuang Yuan Qiao |
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| the smallest lock in the word, after being magnified 100 times (see the middle dot) |
We having our nice meal on boat where the chef cook do his cooking on boat hot and yummy yummy.
After lunch we proceed back to mainland to take our transportation back to West Lake. Arriving at West lake we caught in a heavy traffic jam but we manage to reach to watch the beautiful sun set. After that we go for our nice meal at Ramen Japanese food..
Every day turns to be a nice days. Unfortunetly on forth day my daughter fall sick because change of weather. Luckily we manage to buy the medicine at their pharmacy. After taking the flu medicine my daughter went to sleep for half day and we continue our exploring at XiXi Wetland 西溪湿地. We really take our sweet time to take number 49 bus from "Guan Xiang Ko Road" 官巷口 to "Chi Che Xi Zhan. 汽车西站" Here we take a short distance transport to XiXi wetland from this guy contact...
At 4.00pm we decided to go Song Chen Village 宋城. There we explore and continue with a show call "Song Chen Qian Gu Qing" 宋城千古情
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| at the entrance of Song Chen |
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Song Chen Qian Gu Qing performance
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Day five we rest till noon at hotel. After that we take whole day exploring the West Lake and looking for nice food.. Dinner we went to Low Wai Low 楼外楼 to try their famous dish like "Xi Hu Cu Yu" 西湖醋鱼 etc.
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| Xi Hu Cu Yu 西湖醋鱼 |
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| these are some of the interior decoration of restaurant |
After dinner we went for musical fountain.
Time passes real fast. Is the last day for us at Hangzhou. We fully utilies our time because our flight at 2325hrs from Hangzhou. So we went to Wuzhen 乌镇 to look for their historical villages. There we eat "Dong Bo Rou" 东坡肉 one of the must try in Hangzhou.
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| hand craft cloth |
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| Dong Po Rou wrapped with bamboo leaf |
Finally, we catched our flight back to KL.
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