Hangzhou
Travel Blogs from Hangzhou, China
A Short Trip to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai (1)
... 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
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
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...
... - 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 ...
Rorie's pre-birthday Kegfest
... 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 ...
I'm too big for Asia
... 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!
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 ...
Hangzhou
... 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
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?
... 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 ...
Nude exhibition - 78 year old farmer
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
... 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
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
... . 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
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?
... 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 ...
A day in Hangzhou
... can eat!' (anyone who knows me understands what that means!). Hangzhou is much more like the China i have been dying to see, as today i got my first taste of temples, picturesque parks and lakes all ...
Stupidity in Hangzhou
... 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 ...
West Lake
... hard to find it for us, even running around otuside 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 hours ...
Hangzhou Day Five
... 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 ...
Beautiful Hangzhou and other annoying things
... money. I think the photo will do more justice to Hangzhou than my descriptions. Suffice to say Hangzhou is a really beautiful place. Are you done looking? In China, our biggest problem is probably the fact that men stare at me. And it's not just ...
Dehydration
... 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 ...
Choo Choo
... 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 ...
Hangzhou - Shanghai
... named because it resembles a Holy Mountain in India that was thought to have been transported to this spot. No tour to Hangzhou is complete without going to the world renowned Dragon Well Tea Plantation, where the legendary Longjing green tea is picked ...
Hangzhou
... bit. However, most of my time was spent resting. Our hostel was conveniently located next to West Lake (which is what Hangzhou is known for). This beautiful lake contains a couple islands and a main causeway that runs through it. The weather was ...
April's Holiday Collection Fashion Show China
... were showing. If you can read my announcement we should be friends, because this isn't the last time I'll be working with Hangzhou, China. I was the only designer to use her broken Chinese on the stage :-) Wish you could have been there. See you ...
New Year's in Style!
... sit on the luggage and Steve had to stand, therefore vengeance was mine :) Once in Shanghai we were able to get tickets easily to Hangzhou and then finally arrived around 10:00. We got a taxi and they dropped us off close to the hostel. We ...
Hangzhou- West Lake
... two Austrian girls who were the only other westerners in the hostel and they seemed pretty excited to see me. We went to the tea fields together one morning, they were up in the mountains and really beautiful. Hangzhou is famous for its tea all over ...
It's still winter.
... ; I have no excuse. So, these are some photos from a recent adventure to Xixi Wetlands. It is one of Hangzhou's biggest tourist draws, but my reviews are "just so so". The company was entertaining but the scenery was a little ...

