I like Wuxi ! I don't know a thing about this city till this trip and never really heard about it. Perhaps the attraction about Wuxi to me is the Li Lake or Lake Taihu, which can fills four Singapore! The lake was a haven to the pearl industry (where we were brought to a Pearl factory for 'shopping'!) and fresh water produces. Anyway, the surprising...
22.1.16
This was the last destination in Nanjing before we left for Wuxi where we are travelling nearer and nearer to Shanghai, which is the last city in our long 9-day tour of Jiangnam. Well, I always heard of Yangtze River or popularly known as Yangtze Kiang , Chang Jiang or Cheung Kong in Cantonese. This was third longest river in the World...
19.1.16
I had a great time shopping around Nanjing's Gongyuan Street, after having their famous Nanjing vermicilli and duck blood-cubes soup , which is located around there. It was not too late, around 6pm+ but due to the winter season, it was all dark there. It's basically more of a window shopping there as the place was too big and we are also busy...
14.1.16
I didn't really paid much attention to the itinerary as even if I read it, I still don't know that place till I visited it, except the West Lake of Hangzhou and some places in Shanghai. Thus, I was excited when the tour guide announced we are going to visit Dr.Sun-Yat-Sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, which is the final resting place of the founding father...
11.1.16
While we were around Suzhou, both the lead tour guide and the native Suzhou tour guide keep on boasting how pretty and beautiful the ladies here , and in fact, Suzhou is famous for pretty girls. Well, they mentioned in the ancient times, the Kings usually summon Suzhou maidens to the palace as well as the Empress Qi Shi, one of the four beautiful ladies...
