On day three we took a train to Hangzhou and arrived at our hotel around 2. Afterward we ate at this street market, which had rice inside a pineapple. It was delicious! We went back for seconds. Then we went to the West lake and had a boat ride into the sunset. We finished the day off at Grandma's, another recommended restaurant and had green tea chicken and bamboo. Also delicious!
For breakfast the next day we had pineapple and wandered around the street near our hotel. It was raining so we couldn't do much. We found a medicine museum and snuck in for free though. At noon we left for Shanghai and met up with our FSP classmate for supper.
The next day it was still raining. We went to the Bund, Planning Exhibit, which showed off Shanghai's architecture. We also went to the Shanghai Museum and Old Street.
On our last day we went to the French concession and looked at all of the art galleries. We had lunch and I said goodbye to Rachael (She had to catch a plane to America). Afterwards I went back to the Bund to take pictures (the weather was nice that day) an art gallery, an art museum, and a contemporary art museum. Some students asked me to take a picture of them and asked if I would join them at the tea shop, but I was suspicious and remembered that the guide book warned of students scamming tourist into buying them tea. Yay for avoiding scams!!
The Bund on a beautiful day
A rug made out of watches. The alarms would go off every second. Yay for modern art!
This is made out of bread.....
I didn't get this one at first, but now it's my favorite. It's a statue of the lions/fu dogs that guard the gates, but the lion took off and left it's ball and droppings behind.
Shadow puppets at the Shanghai Art Museum
Paper cuttings also at the art musuem
Art at the contemporary museum of art in Shanghai
I ended the day at the food court and had a doughnut and a mochi and then boarded the train back to Beijing and onto Jiaozuo.
Mochi
Doughnut
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