Day 2 (25 Jun) - HangZhou
Had a good sleep in the hotel, recharged and energised. Toured 西湖 on a cruise. Scenery quite nice, but that's about all. Afterwhich we went 花港观鱼, which is a park, greenery and water again. One interesting thing about 花港观鱼 is that the 鱼 is written wrongly (by QianLong Emperor), have 3 dots at the bottom instead of 4. People tried to explain it by saying that in such a nice place, Qian Long don't want to see the fish burning on fire. Orrr... Wah kao, write wrong say write wrong lah.
龙井茶村 is our next stop. According to the guide, 龙井 is a kind of green tea, and it's highly nutritious, full of vitamins and antioxidants. It's divided into different grades: B, A and AA, with more A meaning more nutritious. After the introduction, you starts to see Singaporeans in action. Because the guide pack the tea leaves into the container on the spot, it's natural for some containers to have slightly more tea leaves than others. Uncle Lee (one of our tourmates) got the container with less tea leaves and started complaining. In the end, XiaoFeng picked up some AAA (!) grade tea leaves and put them into his water bottle in order to pacify him.
Uncle Lee reused the bottle and tea leaves again and again for 3 days.
During lunch at a Thai resturant, Youjie was haressed by a effeminate man. However Youjie still look quite happy in the photo. Maybe Youjie also... =P
After lunch we went another park called 柳浪闻莺 (nice name!) and 雷峰塔, aka 皇妃塔. 雷峰塔 collapsed in early 1990s, and was only rebuilt a few years ago. It's the only pagoda I saw that was equipped with air-conditioning, lifts and even escalator! Anwz, West Lake from the top of the tower is a beautiful sight.
Watched a performance at 西湖新天地 and do some shopping at 清河坊步行街 after dinner before going back hotel. Demostrate the tremendous amount of energy present in S'pore youths again by going to 南山路, where all the bars and tea houses are. Later we found out that it's just beside 延安路. Not wanting to shop or drink, we just walked along the West Lake for a while before going back hotel.
They say West Lake is completely different when viewed in the day, in the rain, in the night, and in the snow. At least we now saw 2 different variations of West Lake.
Write so much still only day 2, jiak lat lah.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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