At least it wasn’t raining today. We had another eclectic huge buffet breakfast. There was everything from omelets to stir fried veggies to crispy little fish. I think I may have even tried roasted insects. I was the only one that tried those. We travelled through Hangzhu, past the Yangtze River and to the tea village of Longjing. I learnt a lot about tea but didn’t buy any because …
I woke up at 2:45am and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get back to sleep. At 7am we went for another huge buffet breakfast before checking out of the Gloria Grand Hotel Wuxi. The day was dull with pouring rain which suited the geese and pair of black swans that lived in the water area in front of our hotel. Vince made an announcement on the bus that the …
Our day started at 4am because we had an early flight on Hainan Airlines to Shanghai. We met our new tour guide Celia at the Shanghai airport and took our bus to the Bund area of Shanghai, passing many modern and artistically shaped sky scrapers. Lunch was at a restaurant near the People’s Hero’s Monument. All our lunches and suppers are in restaurants with large lazy Susans in the middle of the …
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Wake up call at 5:45. After a buffet breakfast we were in the lobby, ready to go by 7:30. Our first stop was the jade factory. We had an interesting seminar on jade. Unlike Barry, Cole, Steve and Carol, I managed to forego the temptation to buy. For me the highlight of this stop was getting a great picture with the Terracotta Warriors. Not the real ones; those are in Xian. …