Suyuan Hotel Huai'an

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.

... back here by 3:30pm. So it was great, we ate lunch wherever we wanted, walked around, shopped, and saw the sights by ourselves.

Jacob's journal entry:

Yesterday we took a tour to my mom’s heaven, it had historic sights and shopping. We took a bus ride to a town in the middle of nowhere. Then we had an awesome lunch. We had crab, shrimp, and lots of other food ...

... boy ran in and stood in front of the box, changing the channel, laughing as the girl grew annoyed. Everyone laughed at the boy, which I didn’t think was very fair. He didn’t seem so cute to me in his self-knowledge of what he could do. He mostly just seemed spoiled. And the girl—I had imaginary projections of her in her late teens—bitter, *****y, snappy, and not knowing exactly why.

After lunch, Stephanie, two friends of hers, and I all went out to KTV ...

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 convienent stores. Not fancy at all, kind of homely. But that wasn't the part that we would tour and spend our day exploring. We got out and stretched, and Anchang Li, our director, together with our tour guide, took us to this monument of Shen. Shen was a wealthy merchant, actually the first millionaire in the Qing dynasty period. He owned the city and is now laid to rest there in an underwater tomb. From there we went into the actual canal area of Zhouzhuang. Full ...

Hi, Just came back from the climbing gym, so I am some what tierd. I am also on the phone with the Haifa office, so you have only half of my attention. But still it's enough to share the great ...

... waterway, which they eagerly sold. I could not help but to snap a picture of this...along with a picture of someone taking a picture of me. The tour group disembarked at a different section of the village. It was common area which the villagers probably used for local festivals. Our tour guide had the unenviable task of shepherding people to the bus. It was not easy to keep track of everyone because you ...

Kit: Today we saw some more gardens. The first one was all right but the others were boring. The reason the first one was good is that it had lots of rocks to jump about on, and climb on and play hide-and-seek on. Dylan: In the gardens we saw lots of people putting lanterns up for the Moon Cake Festival on the 29 September. Raymond's Travel Page

Kit: Today we went to Suzhou by train, and saw some boring gardens. Dylan: We booked in to the Nanlin Hotel. In Suzhou there are a lot of gardens, so we went to some. They all have some sort of rock formations that have been imported from other parts of China. Raymond's Travel Page