March 28, 2010

Sunday March 28, 2010:

We had a great, pleasant weekend this week.From our University’s department has been asked if anybody wants to go on a day trip.We spent, approximately, 4 hours in bus from Xian to get to Hangzou.

The city itself is well known for its dam and water pipe system.The way to get there we passed through a lot of mountain ranges.The city was a very small county, but out-skirts was great to visit, as it was full meadows of yellowish kind flowers, which they take vegetables cooking oil from it, and fields of tea.

In fact, they were enormous number of bee keepers, left and right.I was so tempted to get some natural honey, but later discovered, even there they had added so much sugar to honey Wax, which isn’t worth trying it.

The whole team was include mostly Chinese teacher and their family and just 6 of us (foreign teachers).We slept overnight in a four star hotel.But, I must confess it was like a common 3 star in big cities.Well, it was durable for one night, no complain.The bedding was great, but single glazed –windows are killer in most places in China.

We had comparatively, pretty great trip with this Chinese team and no one was that much annoying.We managed to play Chinese cards and that was fun though.

The whole Saturday as, it was pretty tight schedule; we had to run from one place to another, but luckily they deleted one programe.
The first spot was visiting a special Temple and it was kind of bird’s –eye-view towards the meadows and fields.We took privilege of our professional local photographer to have plenty of nice pictures.They spoiled us a bit , as we were just married.

Moreover, we stopped twice morning and afternoon in different meadows to take some artistic picture.I did enjoy the smell of flowers around and annoying bees on the other hand.

It was great restaurant in our second spot, visiting dam and river.The restaurant was famous for its fish and eel.So we had plenty, plus different kind of weirdo green vegetables which are unique on that area. Spicy, sour and sweet taste all together made a great combination for our digestion for the rest of the day.

It was great to have a chance of walking in path around the lake which never ended.We spent almost 2 hours walking around.
The way back were a bit laming time and they cut the plan for Xinxiang restaurant into another nice place tough for dinner time?
We arrived around 12 midnight; while I was in sleep walking try to get the way back home.