2017chinaal

Our second day in Shanghai starts at the Shanghai Museum. The building was constructed in 1993 and takes as its design idea the Chinese belief that the sky is round and the...

This time it's difficult with the blog, the internet is really slow. So I'm not sure if there will be many photos. We had to get up early today. Our train to Shanghai left at 9...

Due to today's holiday in China, progress was very difficult. There were millions of people on the move. Traffic (including pedestrian traffic) was regulated by countless police...

After visiting some Buddhist temples, it was time to visit Taoist temples today. For this, we had to do a little mountain hike to the 'Jade Emperor Hill'. This 'hill' is quite...

Today's program included West Lake. It is the main attraction of Hangzhou and is visited by millions of tourists every year. Once you've seen West Lake, you'll understand why....

Today I am writing under difficult conditions because Google doesn't work in the hotel in Hangzhou, so I have to go through the company server in Germany to log in. This morning...

After the cooler day yesterday, it was noticeably warmer again today. A trip to Lake Taihu was on the agenda for today. Relatively unknown in Germany, it is about five times...

After yesterday's rainy day, today was slightly cooler. At a pleasant 24 degrees Celsius, we went to Tongli, an old town outside of Suzhou that is essentially preserved as it...

Rain was forecasted for today, luckily it is supposed to be the only rainy day of the trip. The rain actually came on time and heavy tropical rain accompanied us all day long....

Today it was really hot, blue sky, clear view and already 30 degrees in the morning. After a hearty breakfast, we went to the 'Birds and Flowers Market'. There you can find not...

On the way to breakfast, we already had an interesting experience. In the 8th floor, a robot got into the elevator. He looked a bit like R2D2 from the movie Star Wars and spoke...

After visiting the Humble Administrators Garden, we went to Pinjang Road. We wanted to have something to eat there. However, the street was a challenge for our noses. There were...

Today was our first full day in Suzhou. Our guide picked us up at 9:30 am from the hotel and we went straight to the Humble Administrators Garden. It was built over 500 years...

After only 9.5 hours of flight, we safely landed in Shanghai. The customs control took less than 10 minutes and 10 minutes later we were already outside. Unfortunately, our...

With Lufthansa, we're off to Shanghai. Check-in and security checks are done in just 10 minutes this time, so we have plenty of time in the lounge. Of course, there are the...

Morgen geht unsere Reise nach China los. Wir werden 3 Städte bereisen, Suzhou, Hangzhou und Shanghai. Alle drei Städte liegen im Becken des Janktsekian. Sie waren und sind...