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Zhouzhuang - Venice in China
This is a top pick! ... on bicycle and visit the many gardens when it's pouring rain!! So after lunch we decided to go to Zhouzhuang, a small riverside village known as the "Venice of China" for it's numerous and crisscrossing canals. It's a very small place so we figure we ...
Much more like ancient China
This is a top pick! Shower song: devils dance- metallica Zhouzhuang is the China i have been dying to see, a tiny town of 4000 inhabitants, apparently now solely dependant on tourism (shame) though the day we've chosen is perfect, as it seems to be tourist free throughout. ...
Water Village
... boats and more construction sites but even so though it was still a nice enough journey as the sun was out. Zhouzhuang is set amongst some nice villas and apparently this area is where people come from Shanghai to holiday, relax and play ...
WHAT is in my shoe?
... of the city of Kunshan, near Suzhou. The proper name for a town of its type is a "water township." Zhouzhuang has survived since the 11th century as a fishing village, and net fishing is still its main industry today. The ...
Zhouzhuang
Today we went to Zhouzhuang a water town near Shanghai. It has old Ming buildings and canals that run through the town. We hired a gondola and went for a ride through the canals. That was lovely, really peaceful. We stopped to ...
Zhouzhuang Village
... have been used in advertising around the world, but most people wouldn't know where they were from unless they actually went to Zhouzhuang. We visited several ancient mansions in the village, which were unimpressive. I could see that in the past they were ...
even more impressive!
a small village 1 hour from suzhou, full of canels,bridges and chilled out boat ...
Zhouzhuang - The Venice of China
... houses, gardens, courtyards, canals, bridges and lakes. Each was more grand then the last and, as with everything in China, had many different spiritual, superstitious, traditional or some other meaning. Another "feature" of some of these houses was a ...
ZhouZhuang - local version of Venice
... you have only half of my attention. But still it's enough to share the great weekend we had . We spent it in Zhouzhuang village, which is one and a half hours away from Shanghai. It is a traditional Chinese village which is ...
I want life in every word
... a beautiful energy which the West otherwise lacks. There is community. There is simplicity. It is thrilling. We toured an ancient town (Zhouzhuang) about an hour out of Suzhou (Dad, I did riddles with my classmates the whole way, they couldn't get ...
Could National holiday week be salvaged ??
... adventure, we really didnt know where we would end up this week. Our first stop though, the ancient water village of Zhouzhuang. ( small digression, but as Adam and I awaited our bus to Zhouzhuang in Suzhou North long distance bus station nature called. ...
national day
for national day, i attended a wedding in xuyi. it's known for its crawfish or chinese lobster as they call it around here. it was one of my co-workers and i was one of the few foreigners that attended. three hours outside of wuxi, it was in a small ...
A Beautiful Ancient Smurf Water Village
This is a top pick! ... early and headed to the North Long Distance Bus Station which was only about five minutes away from my hotel. A journey to Zhouzhuang Water Village is now pretty much all taken care of for you by the wonderful Suzhou Tourist Industry! Go to ...
Zhouzhuang the Watertown.
This was my first trip outside of Shanghai and visiting a more tradtional town rather than the modern city of Shanghai. Zhouzhuang is a small town in Jiangsu province which is next door to Shanghai. It took us around 3 hours by coach to get ...
Among weeping willows and boats..
Approfitto di qualche giorno di sole per ripartire. Destinazione: Suzhou, la cittą famosa in tutta la Cina per la bellezza dei suoi giardini ad opera d'arte, i suoi mille canali e, a quanto mi spiegavano amici cinesi), delle sue donne, rinomate come ...
Zhouzhuang
... plano en cuadricula y plana con aceras anchas y limpias llenas de elevados edificios e invadidas por multitud de gente, Zhouzhuang, a orillas del lago Dianshan se caracteriza por sus viejos y legantes edificios de arquitectura clasica, luminosas paredes ...
A Zhouzhuang Saturday
... , Eric, John and I climbed into Eric, our favourite driver’s car and headed off to ‘China’s most beautiful water town’. Zhouzhuang was about an hour’s drive away, and as always there was much conversation and laughter getting ...
Day Tour in Zhouzhuang!
Welcome to Zhouzhuang!This little town is outside of Suzhou and is a very touristy spot with the use of their canals, ancient buildings, bridges , and history all over the place.We got here by bus and upon arrival we had a very nice lunch on top one of ...
Venice Baby! / Zhouzhuang
... ; However our next stop on the bus tour, Zhouzhuang, has a legitimate claim to the title of "Venice of the East" Zhouzhuang is a little village between Suzhou and Shanghai. A network of willow tree lined canals criss-crossed the village. ...
The touristic island of Zhouzhuang
After Shanghai we got on a bus that took 2hours to get to our next port of call - the Touristic Village of Zhouzhuang. They call this village the Venice of asia as it has a lot of canals in it. Pretty much everyone there was a tourist. To get into the ...
Panda Day
This morning we got an early start with check out and headed out to the panda park. The weather is a bit over cast and it looked like rain but it held off. We chose not to hold a panda. I couldn’t justify the price of $165 for a minute. I ...
Charming canals
Zhouzhuang, Shanghai - an ancient water village that reeks charm in the narrow lanes, stone bridges over canals lined with boats carrying thrilled tourists enthusiastically capturing photo memories with their fancy digital ...
The Venice of the East
... to the no smoking sign) smoking a cigarette. Today we are going to the "Venice of the East," a water village in south-east China. The architecture is smaller in scale than in Shanghai but grander in detail. This is known as the richest place in all of ...
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