Travel By Photo – LiHu Scenic Area of Wuxi

On the 7th day of our vacation travel to South Yangtze China, we woke up and found ourselves still in Wuxi, China. It was early in the morning at 6:45am. Looking out of our hotel room window, the sun was rising and I managed to capture the perfect dawn scene (though some reflection from window glass could be spotted). We packed our luggage and had our breakfast at the hotel before we were brought to another tourist attraction of WuXi, the LiHu Scenic Area at 8:30 in the morning.

LiHu scenic area, as part of the LiHu Lake (蠡湖), with another name Five Li Lake, is one of the bay of the main lake of Taihu Lake. WuXi is a city built along the TaiHu Lake of China. While LiHu is only part of Taihu Lake, it still covers a large area of 9.5 square kilometers. It is named after the legend of Fanli and Xishi (one of the four famous beauties in ancient China).

LiHu scenic area has become a tourist spot recently after the local authorities decided to transform it into the new city of Lihu township with the development of various housing, commercial and tourists facilities. Travelers could come here to admire the special scenic view of the lake which they call it The Brilliance of LiHu Lake (蠡湖之光).

As I mentioned earlier, we were brought to the place and only allowed merely less than 15 minutes at the area to take photographs (this is why I always emphasize on Self-travel as against this kind of packaged travel). So what should I do? Held tight to my Lumix FZ28 and took as many photos as I could, as consolation.

The view in that morning was really breathtaking to me. Natural perfect sunlighting in that early winter morning was the key to these exciting photos.

I was there at LiHu lake before! (What could I do other than posing for a shot)

In fact, tourists could buy a ticket here to take  up cruising around LiHu Lake. I’ll do it if I were there by self-travel… only RMB20 per pax.

Different from the cruise ride at HuangPuJiang of Shanghai and also the larger cruiser in HangZhou XiHu, small motor boats are deployed for LiHu Lake cruising.

The New City Of LiHu, Wuxi.

Finally, I took 4 photos in a row horizontally across the LiHu Lake scenic area and stitched them all up to create this panorama view of the LiHu Lake superb scenic view! Perfect stitching! Thanks ArcSoft! Click the photo or here to view full size of Lihu Lake Panorama at Flickr.

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All above photos were captured by Panasonic Lumix Fz28