Day 8 and 9 - Su Zhou and Zhou Zhuang

Su Zhou and Zhou Zhuang are 2 attractions close to Shanghai. We took a 1 hour train from Shanghai to Su Zhou and then a 1 hour bus from Su Zhou to Zhou Zhuang the next day.



Su Zhou was a city filled with history with numerous water canals running through it. Beautiful Architecture and Beautiful girls... oh.. but this beautiful girl is from Singapore though...



Our first stop was a temple. It was supposed to be 500 years of history.



It was very well restored and the carvings and interior was really beautiful!











One bad thing though... We (accidentally) walked into a sourvenir shop in the temple and were awed by their hard sell tactics. They were selling artifact replicas and literally pushed the stuff into our faces... I thought we would never get out... This little boy simply gave up...



View from the top of a pavillion in the temple.





Ahhhh... RAYZILLA!



Where was Fatty Tan and the Water Bottle Princess? Did they perish in the last battle? No time to find out... Who will save us now...?



Oh... its the "Not-so-Invisible" Man... With his "Not-so-invisible" Smile, he blinds Rayzilla and kicks him off the Pavillion... Yay.... This must be the end of Rayzilla... But where did the "Not-so-Invisible" Man go? No one knows...



Look at the size of Ray's B....ELL! (you dirty minded people!)



Lunch! Cheap and good!



Next stop we went to the Lion' hill (or something like that...) Built along side the hill was the manor of a rich man's house... quite beautiful! and tiring...









Jackie Tan and Ray Fei Hong! (Eat) Snake style vs Rayzilla Fist... Dun play play!



This is the leaning tower of Suzhou... the first 6 levels are leaning. They built the 7th level straight to prevent the tower from further leaning and ultimately collasping... Amazing!



No... you are not drunk... the door is leaning...



We visited Zhou Zhuang the next day! A fishing village with narrow pathways and people selling handicraft... It is such a beautiful place!









They had ladies on little boats ferrying people around the water ways of the village... If you pay her 10 yuan, she will even sing 3 songs for you... traditional songs that they sung when they were ferrying people around 100 years ago...



So concludes our 9 day tour around China... it was fun, very fattening and an eye opener indeed!