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!

Shanghai

SHANGHAI

After 2 hours of drive from Wuxi,  we arrived at Shanghai. The buildings at Shanghai all have different design. When we arrive at Shanghai city we can feel the different environment and feeling.
At Suzhou and Wuxi is more greener.
Shanghai is the most influential city in China, with life amongst bright lights from towering skycrapers, fashionable folks strolling along the scenic bank of The Bund. 

Now the tallest building in China, the 632m Shanghai Tower after Burj Khalifa, Dubai is now officially open. Is also the first high-rise tower to have cloud computing data centre which can accommodate 15,000-20,000 people

All Buildings

In

City

City God Temple of Shanghai 城隍庙商业区

"People Mountain People Sea"

We tried the crab meat soup 蟹肉汤,  xiao long bao 小笼包.
The most famous Shanghai dish, sip the broth and dip the meat in dark vinegar.

Lets Try More Flavour like Old friend Rice Noodle, Sour pickles or Sticky rice rolls
Yummy.........

Shanghai does have hop-on and hop-off bus right in front of the city god temple. Pretty interesting huh?

Our lunch at Shanghai...

Nanjing Road 南京路步行街

After lunch, we went to Nanjing Road 南京路步行街. This is the most vibrant shopping districts and longest  shopping street at Shanghai, selling all famous brands including Apple, H&M etc..
A true shopping paradise!!and a must see for fashion shopper and tourist. The 6km long street is constantly buzzing with excitement all day  and when night falls the vibrant lights from the stores and restaurants brighten up the street brilliantly.....

I want to be a MODEL hahaha.

This is the 1.5km tunnel that connects Pudong 浦东 and Puxi 浦西. The tour guide told us that Shanghai is divided into Pudong and Puxi by Huangpu River 黄浦江. Hence, we can see that Puxi is much older Shanghai whereas Pudong is the newer Shanghai.

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)

The Bund / Waitan 外滩

At night, we went to 外滩 to see the Shanghai night view.

At Monument to the People's Hero 上海市人民英雄纪念塔..

At The Bund...the symbol of Shanghai's colourful past and triving  future. Across this 1.5km long waterfront on the bank of Huangpu River is and outstanding skyline of Shanghai's skycrapers including the famous Oriental Pearl Tower.

I am cool, can hide behind you?

Can you find the full moon?

The view along Zhongshan Road (East-1) 中山东一路. All the main banks are located along this road facing the bund.

The next morning, we are lucky to be able to spot the sunrise!

Shanghai bridges are all very impressive. The most impressive is the Nanpu bridge. It is long windy loop up to 3 levels high. We were in total awe when travelling up the bridge. (image from google)

SO IMPRESS

Wonderful experience

Another famous bridge we passed next morning is Dongpu bridge.

We still can't finish our tour at Shanghai for one night stay. When we reach Shanghai already half day gone. So second day we have to rush down to Hangzhou for our last destination for Jiangnan tour. During our journey we stop by Fengjing. So if possible plan a longer holiday trip.