China! The Best Place/s to Go #2

Wazzappp everyone!

Hows's everybody doing? Hope everyone is doing good. Last year I got the opportunity to visit China just one month before my SPM with my whole family. I found it weird that my parent's asked me to go just before my exams but I got their permission so I guess it's cool. So we left KLIA and arrived at Shanghai first then we got on a bus to Suzhao.

View from my seat on the plane, my family is so big we practically booked this whole row of seats and more.

That's one part of my family at the airport in China and that man in the brown leather jacket was our tour guide. So on the way to Suzhao, we met our tour guide named Mr David,

and that's Mr David, he speaks pretty good english and on the way to Suzhao he was explaining a lot of the history of China to us which was really interesting. We arrived at Suzhao pretty late so we headed to our hotel first and head to bed. Woke up in the morning went downstairs to have breakfast. One thing anyone going to any part of china might want to know, getting food is like a war. Everyone swarms around the food like hungry wolves, if example a plate of bread or meat lands on the buffet table. Other people won't take their time and walk there, they RUN there and snatch every last bit of food they can get. They even use their chopsticks and take it off your plate sometimes. So didn't get much to eat on the first day but I learnt from then. Only time we could get food was when everyone was gone. After breakfast we headed to some place called The Couple's Garden Retreat, it was an enourmous garden that seemed almost like a town to me. It is a fairly large garden divided into three parts--a central living area flanked by an east and west garden. It is bordered on three sides by canals, with docks on the north and south sides permitting entrance from the waterways.

That's a directory of the whole garden. Big huh?

This is one tiny part of the garden but it's just so you can get an idea of what it looks like. It was nice walking around there and also a plus because the season was nearing winter so it was cold.

More pictures of the garden. We had to take a boat to get to the other side of the garden, that's how big it is. It has its own little river.

That's us on the boat. We got off the boat at a temple which was still in the garden.

That's where we got down then we continued walking to the tallest temple in the garden where from the top you could see EVERYTHING.

And this is the temple, from the front. Headed up to the top to get a view of everything.

The view from the top. We continued walking around the garden after this until we reached the exit. Headed to our bus then we headed to Hungzhao. After a few hours, we arrived at Hungzhao and checked in to our hotels and hit the sack. Nexy day woke up went out for breakfast. Then we headed to the Hungzhao lake, it was around 8 in the morning so the sun wasn't really up and it the weather was really really really cold. All I could see was a thick fog. Around the lake is actually something like a park where you see plenty of tourists an people going for their morning walks. We took a boat across the river.

View of the sunrise from the park. See that huge temple on the hill? We were heading there.

The boat which we took across the lake, this was taken earlier in the morning, check out the fog. It was actually thicker when we just got there. It was so cold, I could see myself breathe. So now we headed for the temple, I can't really recall the name I apologise.

Front view of the gigantic temple. You can't see it from this view but there is actually around five more floors. Curious what the view is like from the VERY TOP?

BAM! It was freezing up there. I was in three layers of clothing! And I was still shivering. Inside the temple was a mini museum of ancient artifacts and such. Weapons, armour, clothing, really old literature etc. OH there is something that stood out to me.

A miniature model of Wuzhen. We were going there after we left the temple. The model was actually 3 times longer than this picture but I could only take on picture as we were rushing. Next we left for Wuzhen.

Map of Wuzhen.

As soon as I stepped into Wuzhen, I saw an OLD man performing some aecrobatic stunts but he was on a tall bamboo........ You don't see that everyday.

Yea, you definitely don't see an old man doing a plank on a tall bamboo everyday. Conclusion, don't mess with china people, they're strong. We had a tour guide explaining to us the ancient history of Wuzhen, we went into different parts of Wuzhen, each with their unique history.

Inside Wuzhen.

This is apparently the bed royalty used to sleep on back then.

I'm sure many people are familiar with this. It's a machine people back then used to make silk clothes from.

After this we left Wuzhen and went to grab some dinner since it was getting late. After dinner we headed back to our hotel for some sleep. Next day we took our tour bus back to Shanghai. We only arrived at Shanghai at night so we got dinner in and went to catch a ferry ride. Shanghai is amazing atnight because the whole city is so colourful. Lights everywhere!

The ferry we took.

Shanghai atnight. Breathe taking lights.

That's the TV Tower. It's the tallest tower in China. We visited that the next day.

After the ferry ride we headed back to our hotel and hit the sack. Next day, got up, breakfast, left to see the TV Tower. It was designed by the Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd. Principal designers are Jiang Huan Chen, Lin Benlin and Zhang Xiulin. Construction began in 1990 and the tower was completed in 1994. It is 1535 feet tall. The tower has fifteen observatory levels. The highest (known as the Space Module) is at 1148 feet. Me being curious immediately went as high as I could to see if it was really THAT high. The lift that took us up was really cool because it moves really really fast. In 1 second it moves past 4 floors. So I reached the level of the Space Module. It didn't seem that bad, until I went out ofcourse where the floors were transparent.