Friday, September 14, 2007
Water Villages
This part of China has many navigable rivers with lots of these Venice-like water villages on them.
We drove out of Shanghai for two hours to this one called Shuzhua (or something)
The guide said that this is the most fertile, developed and nice parts of China.
To get there we drove through many huge, new industrial developments "the workshop of the world" as he put it. Factories owned by Japanese (Pioneer), US, UK, Japan all with living quarters for workers and many with water as well as road transportation
The water villages are only recently turning to tourism - fishermen are hanging up their nets and paddling gondolas instead.
The food here has been very good - the best Chinese food I have eaten - much tastier than the stuff in UK or US. Sweet and sour pork was not very sweet at all like I was used to but quite sour.
Lots of dumplings - some with hot soup as well as meat inside.
Looking forward to home tomorrow - Sunday - as I write this it is Saturday in UK, USA
We drove out of Shanghai for two hours to this one called Shuzhua (or something)The guide said that this is the most fertile, developed and nice parts of China.
To get there we drove through many huge, new industrial developments "the workshop of the world" as he put it. Factories owned by Japanese (Pioneer), US, UK, Japan all with living quarters for workers and many with water as well as road transportationThe water villages are only recently turning to tourism - fishermen are hanging up their nets and paddling gondolas instead.The food here has been very good - the best Chinese food I have eaten - much tastier than the stuff in UK or US. Sweet and sour pork was not very sweet at all like I was used to but quite sour.
Lots of dumplings - some with hot soup as well as meat inside.
Looking forward to home tomorrow - Sunday - as I write this it is Saturday in UK, USA
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