On Sunday, we took the morning train from Shanghai to Hangzhou. It takes only about 1 hr and 20 min on the express train to get there. Apparently the speed of the train hovers about 140 and can go up to 180 km/h. We unfortunately missed our train in the morning since they open the gate 15 minutes before departure and close the gates 5 minutes to and we had no clue. So we had to switch our tickets for a later train and hang out the shanghai south railway station, which was luckily not too crappy. (Although i had some guy blowing gross cigarette my way which sucked ass)
Anyways, upon arrival at hangzhou we went to the frommer's recommended hotel and it was a bit sketched. Not only that, the service lady was very aggressive, we didn't like it so we went to a diff one that we looked up on the internet (westlake spring something or other) and decided to stay the night for 198 RMB.
Then we headed across the street for a bit of food since the both of us were starving. It was sorta sketched but they were really nice so we just stayed and ate a bit of stuff. We then took a cab to the westlake and went to the linying temple to check out the feilaifeng (giant rock) and the temple itself. There were a lot of tourists but it was definitely worth a visit.
Then we headed up to the village where they sell long ching tealeaves called long ching wen cha (long ching ask tea) and bought a bunch of long ching tea. Apparently the name of this tea was coined by one of the emperors of the qing dynasty.
西湖十景
曲院風荷
三潭印月
花港觀魚
南屏晚鐘
蘇堤春曉
雙峰插雲
斷橋殘雪
柳浪聞鶯
雷峰夕照
新十景
龍井問茶 在獅峰翁家山
翁小鈺老闆娘
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