Hangzhou - the picture story!

Chinese have a saying (my Chinese friend gets angry if I call it a saying... she says its not profound enough, she qualifies it as a tourist saying!)... anyway, the saying goes... "Shang you tian tang, xia you Su Hang"... in Chinese. The translation is, "Above is paradise, below are Suzhou and Hangzhou". Su Hang stands for Suzhou and Hangzhou. Since my first ever trip inside China was to Suzhou, I thought it will be appropriate my final trip (ohh, btw, I leave China in 10 days :( !) should be to the other half of paradise on earth. So I decided to visit Hangzhou this weekend. This place definitely deserves to be called paradise. I will let the pictures tell the story. And its just a 90 min ride by bullet train from Shanghai, you can escape to this paraside just for a day trip, from the hectic lifestyle of Shanghai.
Here is some breath-taking scenery...

We saw some kid feeding the ducks with potato chips and the comment from her mom was something like, "Better she feeds the ducks with chips instead of she finishing off the whole bag!"... Now it doesnt sound so bad feeding the ducks with chips, does it?!

More fall colors and scenery...


Notice the buoys below? Those seem to be the ancient Chinese buoys.. but dont know for a fact.
Beautiful sunset!
Ohh, look at the below picture and can you see a bird hovering over the water??!!

Its actually a kite!! There are some master kite flyers and they have such an amazing control. Not only they have kites that look exactly like a bird (you can only say its artificial since it doesnt ever flap its wings!), they can also make it hover just inches over water, they can make it swoop and dive. Its so mesmerizing watching them!

Ohh, if you remember, my first post from China described how bad I sucked in chopstick skills. Here is a picture to boast how much I have improved in the last 6 months! I am eating using a chopstick on a boat.

huhahahaha! 6 months in China and all I can show for it is my improved chopstick skills! I definitely need to get a life! :)