Hangzhou (pronounced HongJoe)

I have many more pics of Hangzhou but it is late now and I am ready for bed will post more another day.

Flowers in Bloom

This is the fields in the tea plantation with workers picking the tea leaves.

I've just had a great weekend in the most beautiful city in China which could easily call itself the most beautiful city on earth. I know I have shown you pictures of many gardens in the various cities in China but this whole city is a garden. Moira and I went with a tour group with 12 people who we hadn't met before and had a great time. It was quite exhausting however as we spent all of Sat. afternoon walking through the Xixi Wetlands, through a market that night and then slept on a rock hard bed. The next day we had a boat ride across West Lake which the whole tourist area is centred around, walked a little and then visited a tea plantation which was a long climb down into a valley and then a long climb back up to the highway. I will let the pictures tell you more about this trip.