At night in the rain, at the mercy of the deficient Chinese navigation apps, we arrived in Hangzhou.
We did manage to find the hotel though, another of these ones that was a bunch of room modules on a floor, in a high rise building.
The next day we joined a tour at West Lake, bus, boat walking, lunch.
Then a visit to a tea plantation where the hard sell went right by me
And to a silk firm with a misplaced sales pitch too. The products werelovely though.
Then to a rather large and impressive temple complex. I think I am a bit of a heathen taking photos there but …
I had spotted a sign saying there was an exhibition of “tech art” so dug deeper and we went there the next morning, after wandering around and pretty much failing to find me a coffee.
This was impressive
I have videos of them in motion, have not got the ability to run them here though.
This cart is apparently directed by the goldfish.
This fellow is a swimmer.
Not quite a Stradivarius.
A resting robot.
I think this is part of the fire safety system at the gallery, but it fitted right in with the exhibits in my mind!
There was a well known restaurant that Feifei had booked us into for lunch
Temple
That is a guilty looking lion!
Then back towards the centre of Hangzhou to go on a canal boat. This is the Grand Canal that runs up to Beijing. It would be nice to travel it more.
Next morning up again, bags packed, we left a bit of stuff there as we were coming back to the hotel.
On the metro/subway to the Train station, info shows where you are, in the network, and when at the station the way out, the facilities of the station etc and where they are.
We ended up here at the Hangzhou West Railway Station, to catch another fast train to Nanxun.
In theory that’s what it looks like outside, I wouldn’t know!
It definitely remember me our trip in China 2014 😃