Day 12 - Hangzhou

Hangzhou is famous for its natural scenery and it really is. It is located in Zhejiang Province, which is considered as one of the seven oldest city in China. There is a say from Chinese Old man about Hangzhou is "If above is the heaven, then below are Hangzhou and Suzhou".

The first place that we visited in Hangzhou was the West Lake ~ Xi Hu. We also rode on the boat and went to the garden near the lake.

Apparently, this gentleman use the trees and flowers as the objects of his painting.

Look at them... so happy huh...

Hm... look at Dave's mouth...

Apparently, nearby the lake, there are like thousands of gold fish and we can feed them with bread also.
Psst... we took the bread from the restaurant in the hotel... When asked Dave to feed the fish with the bread... apparently he ate most of the bread... hehe...

This is the boat that we rode....

Each of the road sign has a direction like North, South, East, or West....

Our next destination was the tea plantation as Hangzhou is famous with its tea also. Hm... I guess China is famous with its tea... ^^

This uncle is actually fried the tea leaves with no oil with his bare hands...

Then this young lady has her own art in pouring tea....

This has nothing to do with the tea... but they sell them near the tea shops... I think they are dried goose leg? Alright, question is answered now. According to brother-in-law, they are Chinese Ham 金華火腿. They are salted pork leg that use to cook soup or stir fry. They are quite pricey also... ^^

Places where they plant the tea leaves and it takes quite sometimes to harvest the teas... It's just near the tea plantation....

This has nothing to do with the tea plantation, but then Dave was eager in spelling / reading the alphabets....

After lunch, we went to the Mausoleun of Yue Fei.

The last two places that we went were the six harmonies and went for the Romance of the Song Dynasty.

Part of the shows.....

Oh yah.. this is the most interesting part. In Hangzhou, all the bicycles that look like below is actually free for the Hangzhou local people. You can actually borrow this bicycle and ride it to anywhere you want and return it at that particular place where it has the bicycle post.