Wednesday, December 30, 2009
{ 8:15 PM }
hmm this post is more about what i didnt post yesterday... for more info please look at my ytd's post... =)
the view from my shanghai hotel roof top..
cheng huang miao street. (city god temple)
wang shi yuan (master of the net's garden) all the furniture made out of top grade rose wood. survived 500+++ years
in wang shi yuan's garden..
han shan temple.. 5years ago a wishing ribbion cost 3yuan... now? it cost 30yuan! the most famous temple in hangzhou...
they say eve of new year the temple will strike the bell 108 times for the 108 trouble we all have... a ticket to come to hear it, 700YUAN. which is about 120SGD! monks are rich nowadays.
hangzhou cultural center
remember mission impossible 3 where tom cruse run through a old street? its here alright
here!
long bridge.. a replica of where liang shan buo and zhu ying tai died. china's romeo n juliet
a pavillion in it
hangzhou acrobatic show. this thousand hand guanyin show is done by all deaf people. amazing uh the chinese
the best tea plantation in hangzhou. Mei village
the terraces
zhuang yuan bridge in nanjing... they said always the winner of the imperial exam in the past must walk over this bridge.
fu zi miao street (confucious temple street)
how they paint inside a crystal ball, teapot, snub bottle, etc. this is the grand master.
nanjing massacre... from the JAPs.. cox nanjing last time was the capital of china, not beijing.. so Japs did many things here... it was said 300,000 were killed, 80,000 were raped.
as u can see... where they film 3 kingdoms movie
the statues
the miniature boats where they took the huo shao lian huan chuan (fire burn a string of ships)
ya looks stupid.
with my olden days idol.. brilliant strategist.. zhu ge liang aka kong ming...
Einstein anyone?
bill clinton
nan jing bu xing jie (Nan jing foot path) but its in shanghai. they most famous shopping district in shanghai. like our orchard road. chanel, gucci, LV, prada, anything! all real
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fun fact.
i also didn't really know the difference till 6days ago... Jiang Nan, Jiang Su and Zhe Jiang
Jiang Su = SuZhou, WuXi, NanJing and others... Nan Jing is the province capital... total 13 cities
Zhe Jiang = HangZhou and others... HangZhou is the provincial capital... total 11 cities
Jiang Nan = Jiang Su, Zhe Jiang and Shanghai. which is the southern part of the Yang tze river..
i at first hear also mix up.. but its good to know.. =)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
{ 3:17 PM }
day 1 singapore - shanghaihmmm ok let me start from day 1 of my trip, 19th dec 4.35pm flight to
shanghai pudong international airport... from our very own terminal 3... due to delays, we only got off the ground at 6.30pm... damn 5.30h flight.. reach there will be like 12mn?
my boarding pass
my dinner
shaghai airport's lobby
12midnight at shanghai airport... its freezing! -2 degrees... only a addidas jacket over my singapore clothes... hell!!!
the apple pie in china is called chocolate apple pie!
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day 2 - shanghai - suzhou2.5hour bus ride to suzhou... we went to the famous places like the hanshan temple, wangshi yuan (garden) and the city gate... they say suzhou is where the most beautiful girls come from... the A grade one all exported! left the B and Cs in suzhou... lol. also visited the famous silk factory and i got myself
a pure silk pillow... SHIOK!
our shanghai hotel...
all together we have 5hotels... cox we went to different parts of Jiang Nan...
shanghai, suzhou, hangzhou, nanjing, wuxi den back to shanghai...
our bus... quite a luxurious bus... till today i rmb this number.. 95850
shanghai famous xiao long bao at cheng huang miao street
at the famous Singapore-Suzhou international business park.. they got a copy of beijing olympic's birdnest..
a garden in suzhou
han shan temple in suzhou
qi li lu... 7mile old waterway
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day 3 suzhou - hangzhoutravelled by bus to hangzhou.. 2.5hours from suzhou by bus... doing alot of travelling...
they said hangzhou's best is long jing tea... even lee hsien long buy from this plantation that we went... "mei jia zhuang" the mei village. got some grade AA tea leaves which cost
250SGD for 500g and some sweets.. EX!
visited the cultral heritage center of hangzhou n had lunch there...
hangzhou cultural trip
the olden days
a toll collection point in hangzhou
cute eh their traffic light? can push away one
the famous liang shan buo yu zhu ying tai bridge... where legend said they drowned
JAM! in hangzhou
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day 4 hangzhou - Nanjingnow at nanjing...
4hour bus ride from hangzhou we went to see the bridge which china is most proud of... germany said cant be repaired in 1974. USA said water too strong cant repair in 1979. but mao zedong dont believe. he done it himself with the china people within 6years without external help!
chairman mao!
mother bridge in nanjing
the very first bridge built entirely by the chinese
cool eh?
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day 5 nanjing - wuxi2.5hour bus ride onto wuxi... we visited the site where they shot the film of "san guo yan yi"
went to the pearl cultivation farm and my aunt bought almost 1k sgd worth of pearls! but quite special... got colours i've never seen before in sg... chocolate and gold.
i think this is cao cao?
our hotel in wuxi.. the best! encore ramada!
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day 6 wuxi - shanghai2.5hour ride back to shanghai! we stayed for the remaining days in shanghai day 6-9... den we went to shanghai tan... shanghai bund.. very famous on chinese movies one... mafia and night clubs.. went to the wax museum..
the next day was free and easy... we shopped on our own and its the first time in my life i've taken
7taxis in one day all my life! 7!!!met up with ping, my cousin who is there on attachment... for accounts for 6months.. seems like she is having fun there man
the president of USA!
tiger woods anyone?
the shanghai bund. "shanghai tan"
the tallest building in china, rank 3rd in the world
cool eh? plus the fog
shanghai financial center
does this look like the singapore durian? shanghai have one of it too!
shanghai's magnatic levitation train... aka japan's bullet train
but they called it maglev here.
what am i doing up so early in the morning?
wooo 301km/h! can fly already
my plane back... china eastern, MU567
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day 9 shanghai - singaporehome sweet home... oh man.. i'm so so so so so tired.. everyday wake up at 530-630am... even earlier den school days... and eating 9days of same kinda food.. i'm so dan sick of it! 8 dish meal, 4 veggie, 1 fish, 2meat fry or stew with veggie, 1 soup... damn!
The tour group people is sooo friendly! back at shanghai hotel, we stayed 3 nights there.. got one family of 3, the wee family.. got 2 rooms.. father mother n one daughter hazel... supposingly is mother n hazel slp tgt den father slp one room... but den they finally wanna squeeze same room.. got spare room!
the whole journey i shared room with my da gu n xiao gu... so i've been sleeping the temporary bed for like 6days... no joke u noe... so they offered me the room...
one person sleep one room.. KING size bed n the room is suite! like king like this... so kind of them...
the lim family, teo family, lam family, poh family, wee family... all good people! i got 3 new friends..
hazel wee, teo si min and teo jun hao... =)i so miss sg, my
bed, food and most of all the people!!! most of all, U!
