Saturday, September 12, 2009

China Trip No. 5 - 12 September 2008 (Day 2) - Xin Chang Ancient Town




A visit to canal town or water village (literally called 水乡 in Chinese) is a must when one visit the Shanghai/HangZhou/SuZhou region of China. So, I decided to visit one of them in second day. Most of the water village are outside of Shanghai City, which may take one day to visit. I decided to pay a visit to a not so popular water village, Xin Chang Ancient Town (新场古镇).

This town is one hour away from Shanghai City Long Yang Station. When I reach Long Yang, I need to take a bus to go there, I still remember the bus fair is around RMB5. It is not very well known, those people in my youth hostel information counter can not really tell me where it is because they don’t even heard of it. However, they helped me locate the position of this place in google.

Dating back to the Song Dynasty is perhaps Shanghai's best and most authentic water village, sensitively restored by one of the city's leading preservationists and as yet undiscovered by the tourist hordes.

Xinchang has been largely overshadowed by better known tourist traps like ZhuJiaJiao and Zhou Zhung, which are offered as standard fare on most bus tours to Shanghai's outskirts. But this is a good thing and long may it remain so. Unlike the city's other water villages, XinChang's resident still live in the houses that their ancestors built. Trust me, the house is so so so small, and you can see those inner structure easily when one passing by the houses.

When I reach there, this quiet amostpheric ancient town gives an overall feeling of light green, very refreshing. You can see canal cutting across the village with many small bridge over the river and connecting the whole village. Very few people and I will say not commercialised and you can see the old town struggling to be anew.


Monday, September 7, 2009

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Locking the car is no longer safe



One of my colleagues was robbed few days ago while she was stopping her car at the traffic light on her way back at night. The robbers approached her car by a motorbike, smashed her car window and grabbed her belongings and IBM laptop ("like mad dog") and then drive away immediately.

Apparently, the robbers has marked my colleague as a target to rob while she was walking out from our office premise to the parking lot. Carrying a laptop will only catch these robbers attention. It is sometime safer to change the laptop bag to other normal bag or better leave your laptop behind in the office.

It is also worthwhile to note that, it is better to hide our bag somewhere inside the car, so that these robbers will have no chance to take it away.

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Friday, September 4, 2009

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

An email to a friend who plan to visit Su Zhou












您好, 王魁
Hello I am awesome here and now working in a new job, but is quite busy. Sorry for the late reply.

I think it will be faster for me to type in English rather than Chinese, hope you do not mind. Yup, Su Zhou is a great place for travel. Of course, The Su Zhou Garden is a must that you have to go. The biggest su zhou garden is "The Humble Administrator Garden" - 拙政园。 This is the largest garden in Su Zhou, most of the people will ask you to go there, BUT i will not, because the entrance ticket is quite expensive (RMB 70) and it is just another garden and nothing special. The Humble Administrator Garden has been refurbished extensively in the past few year hence it has lost its original taste and has become a "modern" garden. (pic 5)
Few minutes away from the humble administrator garden (walking distance), you will see the Lion Groove Garden - 狮子林,this one is quite special and it is one of the favorite garden for 乾隆。The stone setting is very bizzarre and interesting. A small garden hence the entrance ticket is around RMB 30. (pic 2)

There are many others garden in su zhou, i din finish, will go next time.
In the same area, there is this very famous Su Zhou Museum, it is designed by the internationally renown chinese architect IAN PEI - 贝肄铭. It is free, and you MUST GO, otherwise you will regret, because the building design is very original. (pic 3)
Beside the su zhou museum, there is another another building (old) connceted to the Su Zhou museum, it is the prince zhong residence - 忠王府。it is just right beside the museum and it is free, now open for public to see.
In the same area, there are many su zhou back alley - 苏州小巷 (pic 4),and canal jsut cut right throught the whole area. In the same area, there is this road, you have to walk, it is near by the humble administrator garden, there is this ancient road worth taking a stroll - 平江路。(pic 1) You have to go ping jiang road, cos it is very original, and not so commercialised, beautiful and simple for me it is great coz I dun get the chance to see ppl wash their clothes in the river side, etc etc (for you probably is sth normal). And in between the road, there is this place for you to listen to the Su Zhou Story Telling Performance - 评弹, it is located along the ping jiang road, somewhere in the middle, you can ask the local people how to go, and the show is between 1pm to 3pm, if I am not mistaken the ticket is RMB 4. This you have to go also, because it is very beautiful. I enjoy very much. Along the same area, there is this another garden call 藕园, you can go. This garden not many people go, very quiet and relaxing.
Other area can go inlcuding the popular 寒山寺,西元寺, 虎丘。 There is another one call 山塘古街, I stay at the hostel at shan tang, so it is just at the back of my hostel. You can go there during evening, it is very beautiful and wait till nite time they will on the light to beautify the whole area. But quite commercialised. If you have facebook, you can go there to see my china pic. Hope you enjoy your trip and keep in touch ya.

Cheers, Andrew
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