NanJing
My last hours here @ NanJin, will be catching a 5 hr. bus ride to HuangShan(Yellow Mountain) in a couple hours. Since leaving ShouJhou, I had the most pleasant time here in China by far. Got a chance to visit two of its more famous canal towns (Chinese Venice?). I rented rooms mostly from the the locals, which made it quite a personal experience than I had wish for. The hosts are the most pleasant people U meet, they really made you wish you haven't bargain with them so hard @ the beginning. The rooms are quite pleasant as well, one over looks the canals and it is over a hundred year old wood house, that even comes with red lanterns in the room. :-) Much better than that horrible place in ShouZhou.
TongLi and ZhouZhuang is quite nice if you want to get a more rural feel of China's YangZi river basin, it's got the transportation of a major tourist area, but just a short walk to the near by villages, where few if any tourist bother to go. U can walk through these narrow dirt path that wind through the fishing ponds and rice fields, and go from one village to another.
I rented a boat after some hard bargaining to go from ZhouZhoang to TonLi, and it was worth every penny of the Y$60(US$8). The hour long trip takes you through the fish farms on the lakes, and pass through these small villages along the way. It sure beats going at it with a bus.
NanJin is quite OK, got a nice museum with the famous jade burio suit, and a working weaving/stitching machine, that they used to weave some of the famous local cloths. They even hired two artists operating it, and actually making these cloth for the museum stores. It is a thing of beauty, to a mechanical engineer :-) , the thing got so many moving parts and thousands of threads running all over the place, I gave up trying to figure out how that thing worked. And they designed it hundreds of years ago... .
Any how, must get under way for the HuangShan trip now. I timed it to be on a Monday, no tourist.... I hope. If it rains, even better. I just might have the whole mountain myself.... .
TongLi and ZhouZhuang is quite nice if you want to get a more rural feel of China's YangZi river basin, it's got the transportation of a major tourist area, but just a short walk to the near by villages, where few if any tourist bother to go. U can walk through these narrow dirt path that wind through the fishing ponds and rice fields, and go from one village to another.
I rented a boat after some hard bargaining to go from ZhouZhoang to TonLi, and it was worth every penny of the Y$60(US$8). The hour long trip takes you through the fish farms on the lakes, and pass through these small villages along the way. It sure beats going at it with a bus.
NanJin is quite OK, got a nice museum with the famous jade burio suit, and a working weaving/stitching machine, that they used to weave some of the famous local cloths. They even hired two artists operating it, and actually making these cloth for the museum stores. It is a thing of beauty, to a mechanical engineer :-) , the thing got so many moving parts and thousands of threads running all over the place, I gave up trying to figure out how that thing worked. And they designed it hundreds of years ago... .
Any how, must get under way for the HuangShan trip now. I timed it to be on a Monday, no tourist.... I hope. If it rains, even better. I just might have the whole mountain myself.... .
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