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Hangzhou
Travel Blogs from Hangzhou, China
Painting Bamboo Leaves - 竹叶
... go... The teacher "lao shi" (老师) went through the doctrine "dao" (道) of Chinese painting. There's "dao" to everything in China just like kung fu. Lets start with the "mao bi", it is hollow and made from bamboo. The reason the "mao bi" ...
19 May
Hello again, The weather here has been quite strange, on and off rain, always overcast, but still quite warm. Today, for instance, it was 24, very humid, but looking like it would rain at any moment. Sometimes you think it won't rain and it will, other ...
Running for Life in Hangzhou
We took the D-train to Hangzhou which was really fast and sleek compared to ordinary trains in China. It also cost more. When we got out of the train station, we were shocked with what we saw. There were plenty of people outside trying to get a taxi and ...
"Love Bird" Week
... 's associates seemed pleased to have an International volunteer helping them, and I posed for many pictures, and shook many hands. Hangzhou television was also there, and interviewed Pan Lao, Tian and I for the evening news. Of course I don't ...
It takes time....
... of it by just standing and breathing air. 9. Howard’s Dorm- its actually smaller than it looks. A China single bed is approx 20% smaller than a standard single we know. Two cannot sleep on their backs at the same time ...
Hangzhou, ville du singe
... tout de meme), puis escalade d'une petite colline bien sympathique qui donne un panorama sur la ville. Apres ces trois premiers jours vraiment reussis a Hangzhou, depart pour Shanghai (2 jours pour visiter cette megalopole, il ne va pas falloir ...
West Lake View
... temple itself is one of the biggest temples we have seen. It also has the biggest indoor Buddha statue in China and a building shaped like the Buddhist symbol containing 500 life-sized statues of Buddha's disciples (unfortunately no pictures allowed ...
Happy in Hangzhou
... service. Getting more used to the Chinese culture now, actually starting to quite like it. Every where we go there are arguments, shouting and general mayhem, but also lots of laughter. I think China would be a fun place to live for a couple of ...
La Chine
Hangzhou
Lingyin Temple (Temple of Inspired Seclusion) is one of the largest and most significant temples in southern China so it can get crowded with domestic tourists, particularly during weekends and holidays. Local markets and enjoy an oriental tea-tasting. ...
Pees and queues
... sell it to you and say "Change in Montpelier," even though you will be passing through three different countries. But in Hangzhou, they won't sell you a ticket to Xiamen and say "Change in Fuzhou." They just say there is no seat available to ...
Hangzhou
Renowned in medieval China as an earthly paradise, Hangzhou became the splendid capital of the Southern Song dynasty between 1138 and 1279. Later, when the conquering Mongols chose what is now Beijing as their new captial, Hangzhou continued to be a ...
Suzhou
Le 5 octobre 2011 Aujourd'hui fut une journée de pur bonheur et de pleins de belles surprises. Le tout a commencé par un lever à 08:00 et départ à 09:30 (au lieu de l'habituel lever à 06:30, départ à 08:00). Ensuite, il fait un temps ...
3 Cities in 4 Days- Day 1: Hangzhou
... you've got to hurry. School finished on Sunday night, and we had to be back by Friday afternoon. Itinerary- Monday: Fly to Hangzhou. Tuesday: Take train to Shanghai. Wednesday: Take train to Nanjing in afternoon. Friday: Fly back to Xian. The most amazing ...
Chippin' Away
... , I have to figure out what I will do next fall. As of right now, I hope to study Chinese at the university in Hangzhou but that could still change. That's my update for now. Not much has really happened in the past five weeks. I ...
Foreigners, Beautiful Women, Rocawear Oh My!
... nightmarket, foreigners were everywhere. Also, the south of China is known for how traditionally beautiful the women are, especially Hangzhou in particular. I’d say that on this night the stereotype was correct…lol. Anyway I finally got my ...
Never Ending Hospitality
... It was just a lot of small talk around the state of each of the school’s programs and their current interaction with China and America respectively. They seemed to just be feeling each other out. The point of the meeting was that they wanted to ...
Déjeuner à la chinoise
... genre de cool aid à l'orange servi bouillant (le lendemain, on se surprendra à apprécier le déjeuner du McDo!). À Hangzhou, il est encore plus difficile de comprendre et de se faire comprendre. Les chauffeurs de taxi nous débarquent au mauvais ...
Week of Traveling
On Sunday we visited Hangzhou, unfortunetly it was very windy for a boat ride on West Lake so instead we visited a Tea plantation on the country side. We were told that Gondeliza Rice and the queen of Britain, to name a few visited this tea ...
KTV and Scholar's Corner
Last night we went to the KTV. KTV is a very elaborate Karoake centre. Karaoke is extremely popular in most asian countries and given the increasing demand, the Karaoke centres are like palaces in which customers get first class service. Basically the ...
Heeeeeere we go (it eels or real this time)
... o spending the last two days creating powerpoints for all o my lessons to enter on the school website. -I'm done complaining now. -The Hangzhou wetlands were pretty fun, I met a friend of lvis's who worked at water country last year, small world. -Today I ...
Singing Willows
I started the day with a chocolate muffin and hot chocolate from Starbucks. The man at the counter could speak some English, so he knew exactly what I wanted . After that I walked to a garden of the Westlake called Singing Willows. It was somewhat ...
Return trip via Hangzhou
We are back at Brandon and Alisons now. The internet is so slow here but we have spare time today so we are sending two blog entries. These are pics of our last day on the Mt. then we went by bus to a smaller Chinese town, yet much bigger ...
Hangzhou's Charm
... lunch. The meal was not as satisfying as the first day, but it was enough to fill our bellies. Since arriving in Hangzhou, I was already pleased by viewing its natural beauty and devouring its delicious cuisine. Jeff's request for the trip was to ...
Hangzhou
We went to Hangzhou for the weekend to have break for Shanghai! Hangzhou is rated as one of the prettiest cities in China. It was very beautiful but also VERY busy!! There were an insane amount of Chinese tourists there who thought we were as much a ...
Ling Yin Si Temple
These are some photos from the Ling Yin Si Temple in Hangzhou. It was incredible, to see such a huge temple and buddah. The pictures have nothing to scale them too, but the buddah was at least 5 stories high!!! The hill side was also amazing! The pictures ...
NI HAO ~ the dragon ain't draggin'
... China ~ Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Xamen, Wuyishan, Fuzhou, Macau and Shanghai. Outside my window in the Kaiyue Hotel in Hangzhou I can see three separate building sites, each with a 20-story crane lifting steel supports and materials to swiftly rising ...
杭州 - A Historically Elegant City
Hangzhou was arguably one of the most beautiful places I've ever been too. The area around West Lake is gorgeous. The only drawback to it is the massive amounts of tourists that visit, which takes away from the serenity, but even with that, this place ...
Hangzhou Day 3!
... some while I'm writing this from my hotel room. Now I'm back at the hotel room early as we're going to HANGZHOU PARADISE PARK! The largest amusement park in Eastern China. Going to be insane, I'm looking forward to it. All for now, enjoy the pictures. ...