Hangzhou part 2 ( Jiangnan )

Xihu, Hangzhou 西湖，杭州

On our last day, we finally went to Xihu to ride on the ferry. The weather was slightly moody that day. If you want more information on Hangzhou can review my earlier  Hangzhou post  yeh.................

The building with golden roof is Lou Wai Lou restaurant 楼外楼. It is the most famous restaurant in Hangzhou, which is also one of the most expensive ones.

We were so lucky that we managed to see cherry blossom at Hangzhou!

This concludes our 5 days Jiangnan trip. The next day, we headed to Tunxi and Huangshan. Stay tune for our next blog!

Jiangnan Tour 江南游

Yay! Here we are again at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport 杭州萧山机场. This time we are going for the Great Jiangnan tour 江南游. We will be visiting Suzhou 苏州, Wuxi 无锡, Feng Jing 枫泾, Shanghai 上海 and Hangzhou 杭州. 
All those places already separated into different places and blog. Here is only summary. 

We departed from KLIA2 at 8am and reached Hangzhou at 2pm. Once touched down, we went to Suzhou directly. 

The building with an arc opening in the middle is the "Gate of Orient" 东方之门. It is the landmark of Suzhou. For more detail do  drop by my Suzhou blog.

Next destination will be Wuxi. We just stop at two attraction there is Lihu Lake and The Three Kingdoms City.

This  Lihu lake is so spacious and windy that people love playing kites here.



After that, we headed to Three Kingdoms City 三国城, this is the place where the show "Romance of the Three Kingdom" 三国演义 is shot.




For further detail do drop by my Wuxi blog and Shanghai blog.

City God Temple of Shanghai 城隍庙商业区 one of the attraction. There are many more at 



天脉玉器
We visited one of the jewellery shop 天脉玉器 before checking out the night view. Too bad we got cheated. Here's the story:
When we reached, we were been seated in a room. Then suddenly one of the sales girl told us coz other senior salesperson are too busy, we were entertained by the "daughter" of the company. The daughter pretended to be bad at presentation, and used her tears to get our mercy to buy the jewellery. She told us it is her first sales presentation and she had been only at "CEO" for 4 days. Therefore she needed to successfully close a deal to prove her ability. Being swayed by her tears and continuous persuasion, we failed to resist and hence bought the jewelleries. She told us that she treated us as true friend that is truly understanding and said will keep in touch with us. However till today she didn't get back to us despite already have our phone number.We should have realised it is a CON and insisted not buying anything. Too bad we failed. We hope our experience will be a lesson to other people who are going to china. Trust your instinct and never get persuaded easily!!!
(The lady in pink is the so called "daughter" of the company)
Be careful don't be cheated again...



At The Bund...





I have been to this places few years back.



SO IMPRESS
with this two bridges

On our way back to Hangzhou, we stopped at Fengjing 枫泾古镇. Drop by my Fengjingzhen  and Hangzhou blog

On our last day, we finally went to Xihu to ride on the ferry. The weather was slightly moody that day. If you want more information on Hangzhou can review my Hangzhou 2 blog yeh................

This concludes our 5 days Jiangnan trip. The next day, we headed to Tunxi and Huangshan. Stay tune for our next blog!

HANGZHOU CHINA

Westlake

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.

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.

He Fang Jie

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 )...

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.

Me and the Kung Fu Sesame ball 功夫芝麻球

very nice 菠萝油条虾 (prawn in you cha gui)

And the sunset at Westlake must not be missed!!!

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..

walking from one island to another through Zhuang Yuan Qiao

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 Xixi Wetland

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

at the entrance of Song Chen

Song Chen Qian Gu Qing performance

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.

Lou Wai Lou Restaurant

Xi Hu Cu Yu 西湖醋鱼

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.

view at Wuzhen

hand craft cloth

Dong Po Rou wrapped with bamboo leaf

Dong Po Rou

Finally, we catched our flight back to KL.