Sofitel Suzhou

... tourists, so we returned the favor and pulled them into our pictures too! The entire place was great, and many of us said it was our favorite destination so far.<br><br>However, that sentiment changed pretty quickly as we took to a "Chinese gondola" for a tour of the Grand Canal. The century old homes that lined the canal were really interesting. Before the light faded, we hopped off of the boat and wound our way through a neighborhood ...

Our school day begins early at 7:30am. It takes us about 15 minutes to ride to school. The last kilometer of our morning bike commute takes us down a wonderful neighborhood street we have come to know as Sesame Street. Each morning and afternoon, as we ride to and from school, we watch in wonder as the people of the neighborhood go about their everyday lives on the street. Sesame Street is a narrow 2-lane street. On ...

... we find a group practising Tai Chi. It is so graceful and they make it look so easy although I am sure it is not. There are more fish ponds, walkways, pavilions, seats and picnickers. The sound of more music leads us to an outdoor version of Strictly Come Dancing. OK, maybe not, but the dancers are extremely proficient at the nifty foot-work. From what we can see anyone can join in but we decide that we might need longer to learn the steps ...

... Lois teaches English classes and an ESL class. Our biggest class has about 25 students. <br><br>Lunch is at 11:30am. Here's the big difference between teaching in BC and teaching in China. The lunch break here is 2 hours long. When I first heard about this I thought it was crazy!!! But all of the BC teachers, including me, love having the long lunch break. After the first 30 minutes of lunch the campus becomes a ghost town because all of the ...

... about 2000 pairs of couples holding the wedding at Disneyland.<br><br>Walt Disney Company plans to launch full-service wedding,<br>in addition to fairy-tale wedding, it would also include the<br>celebrations ...

... Traditional Chinese instrumentalists came in and played music. Little did we know we had to pay for it. That was unfortunate. Then we toured the factory, and found out how silk was made. The single cacoons are used for most materials, and the twin silk cacoons are used for comforters. Everyting was pretty expensive, so I didn't buy anything, but there was a ton of stuff and ...

... strands are woven together to make a thread. there are workers that sort the coccoons, those that are good enough for silk threads, and those that will be ok for lesser qualities of silk. the silk worms are bigger than I thought - about the size of a finger, or a obig fat tomato worm. anyway, skilled workers unravel each coccoon, a single thread spun around is 1200 meters long. we all shopped like crazy in the stores, I'm sure somebody in the tour operator ...

I'm a Suzhou girl,and I haven't been to so much places as you do.Just around my hometown such as Nanjing and Shanghai.They both are big cities,too large to enjoy.And I don't like them,I'm font of the cute of Suzhou.^^~ I do like to be with you,to share your experience during your trip and to join you. My English is very poor,but I'm very sincere.Please many advises.Thanks.

... death so no one would know where he was buried. Yunyun Pagoda Which is on top of Tiger Hill and as half of the foundation was clay it started to lean. In the 90's the government decided to fix the structure so it won't fall over but didn't correct the tilt. Finally we went to see silk embroidery and had a tour of Tongli an ancient water town where we purchased a silk embroidery.

... des cartes postales, livres, timbres, DVD... Bon les trois gorges c'est effectivement d'une beaute rare. Le bateau flotte sur le fleuve qui s'encaisse de plus en plus en s'enfoncant dans le bras de la riviere. L'erosion a faconne des formes hallucinantes, les stries des roches partent dans tous les sens, au flanc des falaises on voit des grottes d'ours, des hommes coupant des herbes, des singes qui sautent dans tous les arbres ou circulent en famille sur un petit sentier. Quelques ...