Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Back to Hangzhou,tea villages


One of the best places for Tea is Maijiawu tea village which is located is south part of Hangzhou.It takes around 20 minutes by bus passing through tunnels to reach there .The way going you can see so many woods and pass from Chinese silk museum( Hangzhou has great silk thought) and Tiger spring ,which as local claim has mineral and water which can cure so many diseases.

Sometimes especially in the right season ,if you go there the locals will be so happy to take you in short tour and show you how to pick the leaves and have cup of tea there order the local food which always come with Hua sheng( peanuts) and Gua zi( sunflower) seeds.
sometimes if you go to TEA MUSEUM IN THAT AREA YOU WILL RECIEVE A GREAT TEA PURING PERFORMANCE AS WELL.

Not so far from Mejijawu village just another direction takes you to the Longjing Road and Longjing tea village which is called as Dragon Well Tea as well.
When the Emperor Qianlong passed from Hangzhou Longjing tea gt his approval.Hangzhou tea and silk is pretty well-known in fact.

If you want to buy tea in Meijiawu or get the longjing tea you must cut the price, as like other things to half .It cost you approximately 200 Kuai for half kilos.Surprisingly you see the houses build like British style ,most of them have balcony and terraces made of wood and quite simple ,but you feel peace there.

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