Hangzhou

It’s time now to conclude the whole stories of my packaged travel to Shanghai and other 4 cities in South Yangtze region of China. We spent 8 days in the tour to cover many tourist attractions in Shanghai, Hangzhou, SuZhou, Nanjing, Wuxi and also the water village, Wuzhen. For the first 4 days, we explored the financial capital of China, Shanghai, and also the 2 cities of heaven on the earth which were Hangzhou and Suzhou. I’ve posted a half way summary for these first 4 days of tour earlier. Click this link below if you haven’t got a clue where we are coming from:

South Yangtze China Packaged Travel Halfway Update – Where Have I Been On The First 4 Days?

On the fifth day, we traveled to another significant city in South Yangtze region of China, Nanjing and followed by Wuxi, before traveling back to Shanghai. Here are the stories for the final 4 days of travel in China:

  1. In Nanjing, we visited the SongMeiLing villa;
  2. Later in the evening, we came to Nanjing Bridge and visited the crystal inner art gallery;
  3. At night, we went shopping at the largest pedestrian precinct in Nanjing, the FuZhiMiao;
  4. On the next morning, we explored the Nanjing Wall at QinHuai Scenic Area;
  5. Being the biggest hoax of our tour, we bought a jade pendent from a jade factory;
  6. After having lunch in Nanjing, we progressed to another scenic city of Wuxi;
  7. On our way there, I realised we would not have such fun if we didn’t pack these 5 items into our luggage before traveling to China;
  8. In Wuxi, the first attraction to visit would definitely the Lingshan giant buddha;
  9. I recorded a video also on the scene of “Buddha being bathed by nine dragons”;
  10. That’s nothing much on Wuxi nightlife where we only went to a shopping mall;
  11. Early in the next morning, we took a fresh air at Lihu Lake scenic area;
  12. What else could we do in Wuxi? Check out the film shooting base of “Three Kingdom City”;
  13. What could we drink in Wuxi? I had a Taihu Lake Water beer!
  14. Taihu Lake is also famous for its freshwater cultured pearls;
  15. Enough looking at pearls ladies? Let’s move to go back to Shanghai!
  16. We were close. We shopped and drank for the last evening at Nanjing Street, the biggest shopping street in China!
  17. Still exploring Shanghai on the final day? Yes. We dropped by the TongRenTang chinese pharmaceutical centre before taking the Shanghai Meglev Train to the airport.

Long stories isn’t it? Sorry if it took you so long to follow me on my travel experience in China last last Autumn. However, you may find it interesting and informative to guide you through the packaged tour or at least you would have a preliminary idea on what you should expect from this type of all-inclusive packaged tour to South Yangtze China.

Good news for me! I’ve finally concluded my weblog on China tour, for this round. Next. So I could concentrate my next travel stories on Phuket… :)

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cecil on December 30th, 2009

What did I do on Christmas day this year? Tidying up my blog layout. You could see a refreshing new look of Travel Feeder’s header block! What about Boxing Day? I had a photo shooting session with my friends in KL Butterfly Park. The whole idea of the session was for my friends to try out their new lenses! One was shooting with Tamron SP60 F2 Macro lens while the other was trying his new Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 VC. What about me? :( I was only using my Nikkor 18-55mm kit lens with macro converter…

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While I’m still in the midst of sorting, processing those photos taken in the park, here are 2 photos taken by me (above and below) on Boxing day with my Nikon D60. Both were shot without the macro converter. I decided to take it off because the focus distance is just too close to keep those butterflies in place.

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Results from photos captured in the session were mixtures between bad to fair. Virtually no excellent results was captured on that day, one was because of insufficient lighting due to rainy day and the other was due to insufficient equipment… Photographing butterfly is nothing easy like baking a buttercake where temperature and ingredients of cake could be controlled so the results more predictable. Like the one below, 180 degreeC and 30 minutes set in the oven and my Chrismas butter cake was ready to eat! (This butter cake was my little Chrismas present to Jean on the eve) :)

Christmas Cake

Macro photography is something I need to practice. Butterflies photography is something very tricky to master. So, which one you prefer, butterflies or buttercakes? - Travel Feeder.

p/s: I’m travelling off to Port Dickson today with my family to celebrate new year. If I missed the countdown tomorrow… Happy New Year 2010 !! :)

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cecil on December 11th, 2009

Don’t be misled by its name, Nanjing Street is a pedestrian walking street in Shanghai. It’s the most famous and biggest shopping street in Shanghai.

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This is a snapshot on the street taken with my Lumix FZ28. With the advantage of its smaller image sensor and its superb image stabiliser, very slow shutter speed of only 1/25 sec was set. Leaving its aperture to the maximum of f2.8 and ISO400. This wide angle shot was able to capture the ambient lighting of Nanjing Street, eventhough image noise at ISO400 is noticeable. Full stories is coming up next. Subscribe to my RSS feeds if you want free stories updates from me - Travel Feeder.

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cecil on November 2nd, 2009

In China, there are countless breweries and too many different brands of beers selling in the market. On our vacation travel to China, beers are served as beverage in all and every meal we had in the restaurant. To my surprise, beers provided for each meal are all different makes! We had like 13 lunches and [...]

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Congratulation, and celebration…. First started to blog for travel on 17th June 2008, I’m glad, though not excellent, that Travel Feeder could reeach its 100th post benchmark in 10 months or slightly less than a year! Hurray!
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For those who are Travel Feeder’s feeds subscribers, you should have read the stories of my first 4 days or halfway through the travel of my packaged tour to South Yangtze China. This post is the summary of those stories to refresh your mind before we move on to the second half of the trip. For [...]

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cecil on January 20th, 2009

We reached Shanghai on the first day, visited HangZhou on the second and third day. This was the fourth day of our travel to south of Yangtze River, China. We were going to leave HangZhou this morning for another city of heaven, SuZhou. Before that, we were going to drop by a 2000-year-old water town, WuZhen. In China, [...]

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cecil on January 15th, 2009

 On the second day of HangZhou tour, we have first tasted the top quality LongJin green tea in hinderland of West Lake. After that, we continued to visit another one of the West Lake top 10 scenes, Fish Viewing at the Flower Pond (花港觀魚). It is a park with lots of flower species and a carp fish pond within.

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Good Morning HangZhou! We had our breakfast at hotel early in the morning at 8 a.m. I had mine fairly quick as I saw something interesting outside of the windows. It was Monday morning. A working day. I saw local people passing by our hotel on their way to work, by bicycles! There is even a [...]

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The ZhangYiMou-styled of acrobatic and musical live show, The Night Of XiHu (West Lake) featured 10 different cultural and historical sequences, such as guitar show, acrobatic show, General Yue Fei’s history, love legend Liang ShanPo and Zhu YingTai, Buddist’s legend Thousand handed Guan Ying, Chinese dancing and more. We went to see the show on our first [...]

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