PART 5: HANGZHOU (ZHEJIANG)
A trip to Hangzhou must never be short of West Lake, no matter how packed your itinerary is. That was the case with us. I confess, I did not take Hangzhou seriously because I always assumed we will have time for it since we arrived and departed from Hangzhou's International Airport. But I was wrong. Our trip was always short of time simply because we had so many places we wanted to visit that when it came to Hangzhou, we were left with barely a day.
The journey from nanjing to Hangzhou took about 2 hours plus and by the time we arrived at Hangzhou, it was close to evening. Had a simple dinner in a small shop along Baochu Lu. Please do not go there for food unless you are looking for those typical 3 course meal. We werent looking for those so we finally found a small shop tucked a little further on along Baochu Lu and had a generous meal of noodles there. Only after dinner, (by that time, it was already dark) we made our way to West Lake for our evening stroll.
West Lake 西湖 is a vast lake with many old legendary romance stories involving the features around the lake. It is also one of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites.
Because most of the views were clouded by darkness and mist in t he night, we decided to come back to West Lake in the morning, before we depart back to Malaysia.
Some interesting sights for the day around the lake.
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| Water calligraphy on the pavement by the lake |
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| Take 2 |
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| Greedy ducks |
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| Man doing the Tibetan dance. This was his cooling down excercise me thinks, coz he just finished dancing. |
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| And finally, the first and last picture of the four of us in Hangzhou. |
And then it was goodbye China, and welcome home Malaysia.
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| That's me with my winter clothing all stuff in a recyclable bag and wrapped with plastic to be checked in as luggage! |
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