Plan your Hangzhou Tour? If you love to take sunrise shots, you may wonder where is the best spot for viewing the sunrise over the West Lake of Hangzhou. There are several sites good for sunrise at Hangzhou. For the best sunrise photo taking experience is Boshishan ( Precious Stone Moutain ), or 宝石山 in…
Lakes with the same name of “West Lake” are legion. But of all the “West Lakes”, West Lake in Hangzhou is oft-lauded as the most beautiful one, particularly in the Chinese circle around the world. This World Cultural Heritage crowned lake is well known for its charm of traditional Chinese landscape and cultural legacy behind…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? This article offers your some useful Hangzhou airport taxi tips if you are going to take a taxi when you arrive at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. After disembarking and claiming your checked luggage, you will be in the arrival hall. On your right hand is the ticketing office for airport…
If you read about Chinese philosophy and traditional culture, probably you have some faint idea of Yin and Yang, Bagua (Eight Trigrams ), I Ching and Feng Shui. These principles are the native origins of some branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy. They are widely practiced in traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese martial arts, Chinese…
If you are planning either Shanghai tour or Hangzhou tour, a side trip to Putuoshan 普陀山 ( Mount Putuo Island or Putuo Mountain ) is a bonus if you are interested in beaches, caves, isles and Buddhist culture. Putuoshan is the most well known lush island attached to Zhoushan archipelago. Mount Putuo is the abode of Guanyin, the…
Plan your Zhejiang tour? Hangzhou as its capital, Zhejiang is a coastal province south of Shanghai and Jiangsu Province. It is one of the smallest, but one of the most developed provinces in China. Hangzhou itself is a most-sought-after tourist destination as well as the transport hub jumping off for exploring further in the province….
As I recall that a few years ago CNN listed the sunset in Hangzhou West Lake as one of the 12 great sunset sceneries in the world. There are several places to watch the sunset of West Lake in Hangzhou, including Lakeside Park, Changqiao ( Long Bridge) Park, etc. This afternoon I walk along the…
In Changqiao Park, a tourist threw a piece of plastic food wrapping paper on the lawn on the side of the road. It appeared that there was still some food left on or around the food wrapping paper. Several magpies flew down from the trees to eat food. A moment later, a black cat came…