Jia Yue Hotel Lianyungang

We began the next day taking a cruise along the canal from Suzhou, past lots of industrial 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 golf. We walked into the town into the old water village which has canals and lots of quaint ...

... crowd oohs and aahs and finally claps and cheers when the last of the heart-shaped fireworks die down.

the lights come back on and the overflowing stacks of food stream out of the closed doors. right before our very eyes, the lazy susans in the middle of the tables fill up with big piles of delicious delicacies. and we all eat and drink like pigs for the next couple of hours. then afterward we have the best crawfish i've ever tasted in my life as dessert.

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Next we took a walk through the market. There were a wide variety of items like staves, BB guns, jewelry and magnets. I got six super strong magnets, Charlie got a flying top and Mom got pearls, clothes, and a picture.

Then we looked at a bunch of boring residences, all of these were almost exactly the same. Finally we went on a 20 minute boat ride on a small canal.

... southern accent. And sometimes I didn’t want to hear or understand.

Getting there had been an adventure from Kaifeng, an all-day affair. We had taken a cab at 9:30 a.m. past the new campus, out to a tollbooth and exit ramp by the main highway. There, in the middle of the road, we’d waited for an hour in the sun. Two men under an umbrella sat by a cart of drinks. I wondered if they sold much. Probably only one or two drinks a day. No one bought anything while we ...

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Setelah santap pagi, perjalanan dilanjutkan kembali ke Shanghai. Dalam perjalanan menuju Shanghai, kamiakan diajak mengunjungi kota Zhouzhuang yang terkenal dengan sebutan kota air. Siang hari usai santap siang, kami kembali ke Shanghai. Tiba di Shanghai acara bebas untuk berbelanja.

... and bargaining with the sales people. The ride back was a bit of a slower one because of traffic but we made back to Tonghe and everyone was worn out. Zhouzhuang was an interesting place to go, full of so much history! I could hardly believe it had been there since the dynasties. Probably the coolest thing about China is it's history, it makes the people who they are and shapes the many towns all differently. Even only half an hour away, Zhouzhuang was nothing like Shanghai.

... have been to a Jazz festival in fang-bang-zhong road. And here is what happens when a man doesn't get his beer: For the worrying grandma's -don't , he didn't get to drink, only to hold. See ya Udi

... A network of willow tree lined canals criss-crossed the village. Along the canals you can find numerous restaurants, tea houses and souvenir shops. Most of the restaurants were serving the local specialty, pig's feet, also known as ham hocks to you Southerners. The other dining option was a selection of creatures fished out of the canal and kept in an aquarium until it is cooked. What I could not ...

... it was running and that's what counts. We went to the train station because we needed tickets to Shanghai later in the day. No luck though, we discovered after wading through the long line. Across the street there is a bus station so we ended up with bus tickets. Incidentally the bus is said to take several hours off of the train ride to the same place. Our bus was for 5pm, the first one out of town. By this time we had almost 11am and so we went shopping ...