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Hangzhou Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hangzhou, China
West Lake
This is a top pick! ... hard to find it for us, even running around outside and calling people to ask for directions. Glad we haggled a fixed fee though! Hangzhou is another Chinese tourist town; the main attraction here is 'West Lake' which we spent a day at. It took 3 ...
A Short Trip to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai (1)
This is a top pick! ... is the capital of Zhejiang Province in east China. With its famous natural beauty and cultural heritages, Hangzhou is well known as one of China's most important tourist venues. "Above is heaven, below is Hangzhou." is a famous Chinese ...
Hang-fastic
This is a top pick! So we manage to lose everyone else, so it's just the two of us, all romantic like and then the weather goes off. We got to Hangzhou from Shanghai in 2 hours and it took us another 2 hours to get to our hostel. Firstly we got some help from a girl who ...
We are in Hangzhou
This is a top pick! We took the express train from Shanghai to Hangzhou, about 1.5 hours. No time for a story now, just some movies and pictures. Update We missed the train we wanted to take from Shanghai. The South Shanghai station was further then we expected. We ...
I didn't say it wasn't beautiful...
This is a top pick! ... - I don't speak chinese. We both just kinda shouted. Anyway - the topic is: Top 5 most average things that happened in Hangzhou. 5. Getting on the wrong bus, which took me 20 minutes further from my destination than I was. If only the sign had ...
I'm too big for Asia
This is a top pick! ... smoking. In a bus with no windows that open, people smoking. Its amazing, the only way to travel. So today we're in Hangzhou taking a break. After two days of hiking the Yellow Mountain stairs, we're pretty tired. Two full days of hiking stairs up and ...
SWEAT!
This is a top pick! Stifling heat! Yangshuo was heavenly compared to this place...the news stated, and I really don't understand how this even works, but its 110% humidity here!! I don't know if that's really possible, but it's really unbelievable - Houston and Austin and ...
Dehydration
This is a top pick! ... water in my bag. It was not enough water. I read a recent blog from some American misguided traveller who suggested West Lake in Hangzhou is dirty and over-rated. It isn't. It is a fantastic spot with culture in abundance - loads of beauty spots (please ...
Rorie's pre-birthday Kegfest
This is a top pick! ... it for the bus as the driver had nearly gone with out us and would have done if it hadn't been for The Irish. We arrived in Hangzhou at about 2pm and took a taxi to the hostel which was located opposite West Lake. We ordered some lunch and then had a few ...
Hangzhou
This is a top pick! ... feet, I would win a date in Starbucks with my lovely boyfriend. I was a complete hero and succeded. We left Hangzhou the next morning and I had banked my Starbucks voucher for use in Guangzhou, which is a great story, but I'll ...
Hangzhou Update
This is a top pick! Hi everyone, We changed hotel to one on the lake. The other day the wireless router went down on my hotel floor. I told them all they had to do was to recycled power on the router but no one knew anything about it. So I had limited Internet the ...
Beautied out?
This is a top pick! ... is absolutely, draw droppingly beautiful - you're just being a spoilt bastard and yes, you're a beautyholic. Seek professional assistance. B. Hangzhou is beautiful - but it's the kind of city that, if David Stratton were reviewing it, he would say '4 ...
Choo Choo
This is a top pick! ... plod into Hangzhou. We reached a speed of 349kmh (although sadly, Kate was asleep at this point - inside the half hour trip). Hangzhou, is gladly a breath of fresh air (literally). Although still a 2 million population it is close to a ghost town compared ...
Nude exhibition - 78 year old farmer
This is a top pick! From China Daily: A farmer-turned-artist has launched his first exhibition of nude photography in Guanhaiwei, Zhejiang province. Lin Yin, 78, who also practices traditional Chinese medicine, has been taking the pictures since the 1980s. His work is ...
Frustrations Setting In
This is a top pick! ... right group, it can be many times harder than independent backpacking. Anyway, I'm still on tour and enjoyed a tour of Hangzhou today. We visited many beautiful sights including Liuhe pagoda, west lake, the dragon wall tea village and lingyin ...
Hangzhou
This is a top pick! Hangzhou is one of the oldest tourist sites in China, as much for the Chinese, as for Europeans. Indeed, one of my personal favourites, Marco Polo, visited this city 8 centuries ago and thought it was the most beautiful city he had ...
Hangzhou
This is a top pick! ... . The next day we went to the Lingyin Temple (AD 326 but has been destroyed and rebuilt 16 times) which was packed to with China Tours but an amazing temple in the hills. We wrapped up our Hangzhou experience by visting and buying Chinese Green ...
A Day by the lake in Hangzhou
This is a top pick! Today we were up early to get another bullet train, this time to Hangzhou. This one took 1 and a quarter hours, but only reached a top speed of 170km/hour - boo! The time in Hangzhou was basically a stop off on the way to our Yellow Mountain trek, but I ...
Are divorces easier in Hangzhou - for monks?
This is a top pick! ... temple after his wife couldn't get him to come back to Beijing to get a divorce. Monk's divorce case heard in Hangzhou temple Judges from Miyun county, Beijing, traveled to Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, last Monday to hear the ...
Last two days at Mingtown
This is a top pick! Two more days on the western edge of Hangzhou, been here for 8 days and my apartment (yeeech) should be ready to check in. I am going to wait till Monday as I am in no hurry to live in that dismal place. I've learned a lot in the days that I have ...
Red bikes of freedom
This is a top pick! ... using the bike lanes daily in my town of Xiasha but the conditions shouldn't be as chaotic since Xiasha's population is much smaller than Hangzhou's. Probably get an electric in addition to a pedal bike so I don't show up to class in a pool ...
nicer place very pretty here
This is a top pick! ... unfamilier town of Xiasha ie. in my second full day in China,, and decided that I better go to the "West Lake" of Hangzhou (hongjo pronuciation). Staying in an international hostel and just met a Berliner who has good englsh so we are soon off for ...
first free English lesson.
This is a top pick! after the gout attack deminished some smiling Chinese student just sat at my table and chatted for a quick fifteen minute convo. i was not in a sociable mood and these kid boosted my spirits The kid told me to check out the old people doing ...
Stupidity in Hangzhou
This is a top pick! ... in Shenzhen, I got up early this morning with a bad hangover and somehow managed to drag my sorry bum on a plane to Hangzhou. I was planning on taking the Metro to the airport bus to save some money after an expensive Halloween weekend, but as soon as I ...
Meet the Buddhists!
This is a top pick! After hanging around close to the Hostel a couple days, due to a case of the ole' Hangzhou Hershey disorder. I felt safe enough to travel far from the nearest toilet. (dont worry folks, this was nothing like ...
Lookin！up
This is a top pick! ... . Wound up walking with a group of 9 people from all over the world to a fancy Chinese restaurant in downtown Hangzhou. Beautiful German girl on my left and a Japanese dude to my right, Beautiful American lady from Georgia ...
Shopping, the Zoo, a show, and dung discrimination
This is a top pick! ... few things that I have to buy at Wu-mart and Peanut Butter ranks as number one. Can't buy it anywhere outside of Hangzhou's big expat stores. If it wasn't for peanut butter I would never set foot in the crowded shopo-polis that Wu-mart ...
Last few days in Xiasha
This is a top pick! ... of Wenwai Cun, then Long hu Cun (where the temple is), after that we were heading to the southern part of Hangzhou known as Xioushan. After 15 miles of riding Mars and I bade farewell to the other two and headed back on another route ...
20 Yuan my arse!!!
This is a top pick! ... pictures, i headed south in search of Muslim food. Most Chinese cities have a few ethnic Uigar folk from far Western China who's food is similar to other central asian fare, such as flat breads, grilled meats ect.... ...
Hangzhou Day Five
This is a top pick! ... straight ahead when crossing the street. Sure enough the cars stop for you when you pretend you don't know their existence! Leaving Hangzhou tomorrow We'll be leaving Hangzhou tomorrow night on a sleeper train to Beijing. I'm not sure if I'm ready ...