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Zhouzhuang - Venice in China, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang - Venice in China

A travel blog entry by trent

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... 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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Much more like ancient China

A travel blog entry by benabroad

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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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Water Village

A travel blog entry by rtwmurraystyle

... 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?, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

WHAT is in my shoe?

A travel blog entry by larlar1286

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... 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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by carlowfamily

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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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang Village

A travel blog entry by shangguan

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... 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!, Zhouzhuang., China travel blog

even more impressive!

A travel blog entry by ryanmonk

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a small village 1 hour from suzhou, full of canels,bridges and chilled out boat ...

Zhouzhuang - The Venice of China, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang - The Venice of China

A travel blog entry by jmabro

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... 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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

ZhouZhuang - local version of Venice

A travel blog entry by shanghainoodle

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... 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 ...

Hanging Monastery, Hanging Monastery, China travel blog

Hanging Monastery

A travel blog entry by mies

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I want life in every word, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

I want life in every word

A travel blog entry by jess.joy

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... 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 ??, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Could National holiday week be salvaged ??

A travel blog entry by mcafee1990

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... 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, Xuji, China travel blog

national day

A travel blog entry by maymay1980

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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

A Beautiful Ancient Smurf Water Village

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... 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., Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang the Watertown.

A travel blog entry by tomcee

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.., Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Among weeping willows and boats..

A travel blog entry by findme

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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, Zhouzhuang-Shangai, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by juanfabra

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... 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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

A Zhouzhuang Saturday

A travel blog entry by kateandjohn

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... , 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!, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Day Tour in Zhouzhuang!

A travel blog entry by nguyensv

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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Venice Baby! / Zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by ndsquirrel

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... ; 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, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

The touristic island of Zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by rushar

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 ...

Zhouzhuang, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by foulkyporty

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Petit village aux portes de ...

Panda Day, Chendu, China travel blog

Panda Day

A travel blog entry by waycoolkidz

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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 ...

Cycle to Baoying, Baoying, China travel blog

Cycle to Baoying

A travel blog entry by longtail

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Charming canals, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Charming canals

A travel blog entry by karen.ng

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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 ...

zhouzhuang, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

zhouzhuang

A travel blog entry by heymikey

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Hanging Monastery, Hanging Monastery, China travel blog

Hanging Monastery

A travel blog entry by peony

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Cycle to Huaiyin, Huaiyin, China travel blog

Cycle to Huaiyin

A travel blog entry by longtail

Cycle to ...

Mar 23, 2010, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

Mar 23, 2010

A travel blog entry by adelaki

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The Venice of the East, Zhouzhuang, China travel blog

The Venice of the East

A travel blog entry by kwhitaker

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... 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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