Hangzhou, China Travel Blogs

SWEAT!
Jul 8, 2005 (10 photos)

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 ...

A Short Trip to Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai (1)
Jun 12, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 saying ...

Hang-fastic
Feb 24, 2009 (15 photos)

... 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 was ...

We are in Hangzhou
May 5, 2007 (7 photos)

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...
May 20, 2006 (18 photos)

... - 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 ...

Thousands defy death in tidal bore festival
Jul 5, 2008 (2 photos)

... of September 9, 2002, a high tide on the Qiantang River sends tourists darting around screaming in exciting at Jiuxi of Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. [China Daily] Like Zhang, many people started to gather at the Xiaoshan Qianjiang Tidal Bore ...

I'm too big for Asia
Apr 19, 2007

... . 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 down to ...

Nude exhibition - 78 year old farmer
Feb 22, 2009

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 ...

Hangzhou Update
May 9, 2007 (6 photos)

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?
May 19, 2006 (35 photos)

... 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 stars ...

Hangzhou
Mar 27, 2009 (24 photos)

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 ever ...

Frustrations Setting In
Apr 4, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 temple. The ...

Stupidity in Hangzhou
Nov 3, 2008

... 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 ...

A Day by the lake in Hangzhou
Jul 5, 2008 (27 photos)

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 ...

Hangzhou
Apr 2, 2006 (12 photos)

... . 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 Tea.

Are divorces easier in Hangzhou - for monks?
Sep 2, 2008

... 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 divorce ...

A day in Hangzhou
Mar 20, 2007 (16 photos)

... 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 ...

Hangzhou Day Five
Oct 2, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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 to face ...

Beautiful Hangzhou and other annoying things
Sep 30, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Hangzhou
Feb 8, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 have ...

Hangzhou - Shanghai
Jul 13, 2007

... 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 and ...

Hangzhou
May 3, 2009 (8 photos)

... a 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 perfect ...

April's Holiday Collection Fashion Show China
Oct 22, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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!
Dec 30, 2008 (29 photos)

... 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, Zhejiang
Feb 16, 2008 (11 photos)

Hangzhou

Hangzhou first few days
Nov 25, 2008 (1 photos)

Zhejiang University Yuquan Campus and surrounding mountains.

Hello Hangzhou
Jun 14, 2007

... of Zheijiang Province, Hangzhou. Home to more than 6 million and situated about 2 hours south of Shanghai, Hangzhou is one of China's great tourists hubs. Why it attracts so many tourists, particularly Chinese tourists, quickly becomes apparant when you ...

Two and 3/4 month check
Sep 29, 2009 (5 photos)

... ) are in China for 2 months and their schedule and ours worked out so that they wanted to join us to visit the Qing Tian with us.  So we met in Hangzhou and are headed 7 hours south by train tomorrow.  We plan on staying there about a week.

Heaven on Earth
Sep 17, 2006 (5 photos)

... lake. Was great hostel really nice room and great people working there. Spent four very relaxing nights in Hangzhou. Can now understand how people get stuck in China for months - this place would make you want to stay. Rented bikes and spent lots of time ...

Hangzhou
Oct 5, 2006 (3 photos)

... a peaceful lake surrounded by swollen green mountains and exploring millennia old villages, untouched by time. Stepping out of the Hangzhou train station, I felt a pang of disappointment when I was met with the familiar fleet of candy-colored busses, ...