Hefang street in Hangzhou

Hefang Street is a well-designed old pedestrian street, in Hangzhou.
The original street has been rebuilt and today it has a completely new look after large-scale restoration. Shops selling arts and crafts, souvenirs and silk line both sides of the street alongside teahouses and restaurants.
Many famous centuries-old shops including Hu Qing Yu Tang and Wang Xingji Fans can be found along the street. Hefang Street is otherwise known as Snack Street for the diverse food it serves.

The street concentrates food from all around the country, while in some places highlighting the local flavors.
If you are looking around to find some stuff to buy you can find almost anything from different part of China there,but you need to cut the price and really bargain as well.

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.

Brief about my trip in 2008 to Bali Island

Ater I passsed almost 3 weeks in Malaysia I moved to Bali.
I was in Bali island last winter February and it was terrific ,beside the horrible ,long flight everything went great and I received a great motivation for my paintings .

Bali is called the center of paradise,heart of the earth and it is called with different artistic names.they are plenty of artist who live and work there and some of make a magnificent ,remarkable society.

It is not expensive to get some art there and places full of oil ,water color,wood and metal art everywhere.
Majorities are Buddhist and some are Muslim and the rest are Hindu.

Bali is small, just 140 Km by 80 Km and lies between Java, the most highly populated and influential of all the islands, and Lombok, one of the quieter and moderately slower paced islands. Like many islands, Bali has developed a world of its own. It not only captures what is special about Indonesia but also has a uniqueness of its own.


When I arrived there I have got a 7-day tourist visa on arrival and then on the way out of airport received so much information and tourist agencies with broken English to help me and give me some catalogues of island and places to go.

I suggest if anyone want to visit should got there between March -October ,before seasonal rainfall.




In the North part of Island are 2 active Volcanoes which are worth visiting .There is a big ,gigantic area covered under rice ,beside that Bali grows coffees well.I have tried it and not too bad,but don't compare with Brizilian or Cuban coffee.



In fact in my tour day towards North we stoped in quite few places we saw a small water fall and we passed from small villages which grow rice and Paddy fields and small art shops ,painting ,calligraphy and wood art are pretty famous in Bali and some of artists are so talented and you can find unique things there.


There is special ceremony and tradition which almost overarming follow by mot locals in Bali ,as they burn some herbs and flowers and put them into a leaf and with some piece of fruits and leave it in front of their door gate .I was wondering why in pavements should be these rubbish ,but later I realized this is respect to Buddha in fact and part of their pray.











Ihad a day tour to Nusa Dua which is a terrific place to go if you like to go for scuba Diving and actually Bali has so any places on the North which you can go for Diving and snorkeling.









Part of Bali where they have paddy fields which are unique as well ,due to being in hills and terraced shapes.

Nusa dua ,my painting.
Nusa dua is exclusive,tranquil and incredibly amazing white and clear water, if you have a chance to be there.

Kuta beach is located in South West part of Bali,which attract a lot of tourist there and especially great for Surfing ,cause has great waves every few minutes,but there water unfortunately less attractive for swimming due to so much rubbish there.