Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Suzhou 苏州 2018

苏州 Suzhou, my first visit was in 2001. It wasn't that organized and clean. I felt very hot and dusty, very humid. I was sick because I had to turn on air-cond in low temp for the whole night.

Today, Suzhou has new Suzhou north train station and Suzhou train station. I came to Suzhou train station by CRH from Wuhan. The station is very large, it can take high speed trains and also regular trains such as slowest, faster trains.

Suzhou train station south square - old city wall south gate:





At train exit, there are people who stood there trying to get you to take their non-public taxi or dark side tours. Taxi is on the ground floor but we did not know that so we just got to the ground. But, we could take old city wall pictures. Later, we walked down one level and go for taxi. The people they do not line up and just run for the cars. The person in charge did not do his job, this is kind common in smaller cities.

Our hotel is not far away, it is close to UNESCO heritage site Lingering Garden 留园.

Our dinner at a restaurant near out hotel, not local people opened restaurant.




After dinner, we decided to go to walking street and a tourist site 玄妙观,a taoist temple. The wooden temple was built in Sung 宋朝。








 Hotel breakfast









Hotel's own classical Chinese gardens


 Hotel restaurant for breakfast
























 Hotel front
Lingerine Garden a UNESCO world cultural heritage site 留园






 Windows - a row of windows but has different pattern





















































































 Classic Chinese Opera Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭
















Humble Administrator Garden 拙政园



































































































 Lion Grove Garden 狮子林
































 Lunch






Suzhou Museum






























Tiger Hill 虎丘
















































































 Dinner




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