To start your Monday, here are some pictures and videos of our trip to the Grand Canal Water Town, Suzhou. We left Shanghai at six in the morning and returned an hour before midnight. We packed in as many tourist attractions as possible. We visited the Couples Garden, the Garden of the Master Nets (Wangshi Yuan), the Lion Grove Garden (Sizi Lin) ,the Twin Pagodas, the Temple Beisi Ta, and Suzhou's Silk Museum.
The Lion Grove Garden was our favorite. We enjoyed trying to figure out why the original garden curator thought the rocks looked like lions. We also had a great time relaxing in the garden's tea house, where we ate tough, dry corn on the cob and salty hard boiled brown eggs.
In this slide show: Water town canal, Twin Pagodas, inside Beisi Ta, Buddha outside Beisi Ta , garden pagodas, rocks that look like lions (what do you think?), beautiful garden lattice work
Everything in this video is actually in the Silk Museum
Suzhou Silk Museum
Seth particularly liked the lovely high-heeled silk shoes for women with bound feet. Adding insult to injury?
If you ever wanted to live in a musical, you need to visit China.
Dancing in the streets - watch more funny videos
Labels: blogsherpa, China, jiangsu, Shanghai, Suzhou
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Seth and Liz said...
July 6, 2009 at 6:29 PM
The dancing ladies are fun. Where do men dance?
Reggie said...
July 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM