Hangzhou and Wuzhen
August 10th 2009 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 thou
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