West Lake

Weekend away.

---

May 4th 2013
Geo: 30.25, 120.17We left after school and work had finished on a Friday night for the weekend.There were 3 families traveling together. We caught the fast train to Shanghai and then another fast train to Hangzhou.(There is now a fast train from Nanjing straight to Hangzhou.)The first thing we did was walk to the lake from the hotel.The weather was nice and one of the boys was on a mission. ... read more

Asia » China » Zhejiang » Hangzhou

---

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more