Hangzhou Trip

The main event this weekend was a trip to Hangzhou, a city located about 200 kilometres south-west of Shanghai. Hangzhou is famous for it's beautiful scenery, especially by the West Lake. The city itself is just a typical Chinese city, but the environment surrounding the West Lake is absolutely amazing.

The train from Shanghai to Hangzhou takes only 55 minutes. It's all super modern, just like the huge train stations with boarding gates just like in airports.

Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station

As you can see, there's a reason why Hanzhou is famous for it's beautiful scenery. 

Hangzhou is also very famous for the Longjing tea that is produced nearby. It is pretty expensive, but apparently a must when you are in Hangzhou, so therefore we visited a traditional Chinese tea house, rebuilt in 1985 as an exact copy of the previous tea house built there in 934 AD.