Hangzhou and Wuzhen

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West Lake is the best lake...

Then we took a little excursion out to the canal town of Wuzhen - a hamlet along the Grand Canal that was very prosperous during the Ming and Qing dynasties and is now sort of romantically decrepit. 2 parts of the town underwent a serious preservation effort a few years ago and they now charge tourists 100RMB per person, per part-of-town to go see it. But we thought it would be more interesting to see the un-preserved parts of town, where nice families charge you 1RMB per person to go into their beautiful old houses. Our guide knew all the great glamour shot opportunities too...

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