Hangzhou Trip =)

31st - 34th day in Shanghai (30/09/07-03/10/07)

Went over to Hangzhou over the Golden Week and the places that we went wasnt that nice... but well, sometimes it's the company that counts =)

Dun feel like writing alot of words coz there were alot of things tat happen. and the highlight of the trip was that we quarreled with at least one person every day.

Anyway, photos seems to be more interesting =)

Day one.

Went over the train station to buy tixs and only 'no seats' tix are left available so we got to stand for 2 freaking hrs.

Waiting to board the train.. Tons of ppl

on the train

Got to stand for 2 hours and some of us cant take it, we decided to seat on the floor. And when we reached therem without booking any hotels, we started searching for hotels. From calling back to ask my manager to looking at the tourist guide book of hangzhou to asking help from Hangzhou Shangri-la lobby staffs. How great can we be!!!

Day 2.

Went over to Xihu and spend half the day there. Scenery wasn't as nice as the one I saw when I was there 2 years ago. Flowers were super limited.

I think these 3 photos are very nice!! all thanks to yuhong for his SLR cam =) We started climbing trees to remain energetic!!

Went on a boat ride to kill time=)

Some plants Yu Hong took..

Next, we went to Lei Feng Tar. Entrance fee was 40 RMB and we realised that people can just enter from he exit gate.. Argh!! Wasted money..

After that, we head to the bus station to get our return tixs. And the whole place was flooded with people!!!

Day 3

Initial plan was to go over to Long Tea plantation, xixi wet land and to watch sun set at Qian Tang Qiao. But in the end, we missed the sunset coz of the stupid xixi wet land.

Long Jing plantation

Saw this match maker and i think it's so cool. haa see the 'mei ren zhi'???

Went over to xixi went land and it was a total flop. The whole place wasn't fun and there wasnt any scenery at all. We bought students tix into the place which cost 40RMB and when we went in, the person recommend us to take the boat that stops at different stations which coxt 60 RMB coz if not, there is hardly any thing to see.


So, we got the tixs and took the boat in hope to see nice things. But in the end, we saw NOTHING!!! we practically took one round around the place and that's the end. We wanted to go to this botanical garden which was at one of the station and told the tour guide to inform us when the boat reached the station.


But in the end, she didnt tell us coz of the reason that there were too many tourist and she forgot abt it, and besides, the boat got into a little accident where it bang into another boat. Because of that, the speed adjustment of the boat spoiled and it got to bang into the shore in order to stop.

The stupid xixi wet land

Went to complain and demand for a refund and after much argument and quarrel, the person refunded us the money.


There was this sentence that the bitch made me pissed off. She told us to write in this piece of complain letter abt the whole situation and we got to write it in chinese. When we asked if we can write in English, she said this (in chinese) '你们不是华人不是中国人么？? 怎么不会写华语呢？' When we shot back that we are Singaporeans and not Chinese, she shut her stupid mouth immediately. that was then she refund us back the money..

In the end, we watch sunset at the entrance of xixi wet land...

After taking the money, we wanted to take a cab back to the city area but none of the cabs allow us to board coz we got 5 people.


So in the end, we boarded a '黑车' and it was actually quite cool..

'黑车'

Took a photo from one of the overhead bridge.And this is wat we ate for almost every night

Last day

Everyone woke up late and we got to check out by 12nn. Plan for today was just to go around Hangzhou looking for good food. In the end, we just came to this 'food court restaurant' for lunch. Heard from the cab driver that this place is quite famous but the only thing i like there was the Ja Jian Mian .

Lunch for the last day =) look at the crowd!!!

After lunch we got nowhere to go and decided to go Carrefour again (why again??? coz we went Hangzhou for 4 days and we were in Carrefour shopping for grocery for 3 days.. crazy huh!!)

Went to KFC and i felt asleep there..

And we had Singapore food there.. At last, after 1 month in china, i get to get Singapore food. Not very nice bit still acceptable.. And I didn't realised that Singapore food is so expensive.. =(

After dinner, headed to the bus station and waited for our coach. And that was how I spend my 4 days 3 night in Hangzhou..

Took some photos to entertain outselves while waiting for the coach.