Sunday, October 08, 2006

西塘一日游

First stop is at a place called 平湖市, we went to visit 莫氏的老房子。请看房子的floor plan,真大。

有没有留意到,这样大的房子,只有一个厕所?:)


他们的名片(古时)。


我们在他们的庭院留影。


我们留意到平湖这个城市,很干净!比上海还要干净!!我开始爱上这种小城市了:)安逸平静。


Second stop - lunch. We did not expect the trip fare includes lunch, and it was indeed not a bad lunch at all, 10 people per table (we have 47 people in the bus), and many many dishes (mostly vege though, but I don't mind, I love vege). Too bad I did not take the photo, i was busy eating. Oh, the restaurant is inside a hotel, and the toilet is damn clean!! and smells good!!! I was very happy:):) This place is at 嘉善. Clean city as well.Muaks!! I love it.

Then finally we arrived at XiTang. Beautiful old town, and surprisingly not crowded. Lots of small stalls, and they look very "nice" people, well, at least this is the first time I bought mineral water with just 2yuan from those stall, compared to many tourist place where we normally spent 5 yuan for the same brand of mineral water. Again, I am happy:) hehe..


They make buttons with this machine, from the pearl from the shell. Amazing.


They still sell this kinda scissors. Antique.





Lots of rivers & bridges.



They hanged clothes along the river, and they washed clothes, with detergent (I saw it). Wonder the fish can die or not.


唱大戏。


石皮弄,宽仅0.8米。很窄的一条弄。


Jay 的朋友与他女友。


Misson Impossible 3 was shot at Xitang, here!



The bird, can you see one stick on its neck? Apparently this is to avoid it swallow the fish they caught, so the fisherman can take it out from its throat when they fished. Very cruel. The fisherman asked for 5 yuan from us to demonstrate this. And bad us, we paid him to demonstrated this cruel act... yacks..


On our way back to shanghai, we were so tired, we slept through the 1 hour bus-ride. :)

With this, we ended our China National Holidays~~~
Happy:)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the place is super nice, u shd go there more often, it will calm you nicely.

nicknooo said...

Nice place, it looks like a "movie world" rather then a small village. Love it.

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