china's venice
made full use of my long stay in shanghai
and visited the old water town of wu zhen.
the three of us decided to catch a bus there instead of going for the tour,
and saved ourselves many many renminbi.
the two-hour bus ride made my butt sore,
and the annoying cheena music the driver played gave me a headache.
it was super hot and humid when we got to wu zhen,
and we started off with a very oily meal at one of the restaurants.
doesn't sound like too good a start,
and i'd like to say that it got better
but, even though the sights were something less often seen by us city-dwellers,
the sweltering heat and the much-too-long stay in the town
made us really tired and it got rather boring after a while.
but there was freshly ground zhi ma hu that tasted pretty good,
and was probably the highlight of my trip
(spoken like a true greedy pig).
the old streets were lined with wooden houses
that people actually live in,
and though it was usually cooler inside,
there was a musky, unaired stench that kept me away
even though there were aunties playing mahjong in several of them!
there were little bridges and leafy trees lined the waterway.
we learnt a little on the history of wu zhen,
and visited various cultural exhibits like the bed posts of yore,
special wu zhen cloth-making and the way the people dress,
and walked into an old library and medicine hall.
we had damn a lot of time on our hands
since the bus left us there for more than five hours,
so we took a leisurely boat ride to wile the time away
and keep from having to walk even more.
ended up in a little tea house after the boat ride,
sipped luke warm chrysanthemum tea
and chatted about nothing for two hours
before it was finally time to get on the bus
and head back to good old shanghai (and our comfy beds).
as a parting shot,
here are photos i took of the people of wu zhen:
i like to snap at old people.
made full use of my long stay in shanghai
and visited the old water town of wu zhen.
the three of us decided to catch a bus there instead of going for the tour,
and saved ourselves many many renminbi.
the two-hour bus ride made my butt sore,
and the annoying cheena music the driver played gave me a headache.
it was super hot and humid when we got to wu zhen,
and we started off with a very oily meal at one of the restaurants.
doesn't sound like too good a start,
and i'd like to say that it got better
but, even though the sights were something less often seen by us city-dwellers,
the sweltering heat and the much-too-long stay in the town
made us really tired and it got rather boring after a while.
but there was freshly ground zhi ma hu that tasted pretty good,
and was probably the highlight of my trip
(spoken like a true greedy pig).
the old streets were lined with wooden houses
that people actually live in,
and though it was usually cooler inside,
there was a musky, unaired stench that kept me away
even though there were aunties playing mahjong in several of them!
there were little bridges and leafy trees lined the waterway.
we learnt a little on the history of wu zhen,
and visited various cultural exhibits like the bed posts of yore,
special wu zhen cloth-making and the way the people dress,
and walked into an old library and medicine hall.
we had damn a lot of time on our hands
since the bus left us there for more than five hours,
so we took a leisurely boat ride to wile the time away
and keep from having to walk even more.
ended up in a little tea house after the boat ride,
sipped luke warm chrysanthemum tea
and chatted about nothing for two hours
before it was finally time to get on the bus
and head back to good old shanghai (and our comfy beds).
as a parting shot,
here are photos i took of the people of wu zhen:
i like to snap at old people.
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