Another day in Hangzhou

We started early the next day in Hangzhou by walking to West Lake again to take some scenic photos. It was not as cold as the day before.

After short discussion, we agreed to meet with another 3 friends who were going to take another cab at Pao Chu Pagoda but their cab dropped them at another entrance which was not the correct one. We were officialy separated into 2 groups and visited the places that we had planned. We could not afford to walk to meet with each other because the 2 places are far apart. We will meet up again at another place in an hour. Climbing up the stairs to this pagoda is really a hard job for me as there is so many stair cases in China and later on there are more stairs to climb!!!

Pao chu pagoda was built from bricks/stone and has no door. There were many old people hiking up the stairs and do some simple stretching or tai chi here and along the way walking through the jungle, we could see some groups playing badminton, rock climbing (the ancient way, just climb up without any help, touches the top of the hill and come back down) and yelling on top of their voice (to exercise lung I supposed).

I forgot what's this. It was some rocks where they said there should be water flowing, but I didn't see any water flow. It must have dried up.

This was the place we were going to meet the rest. Yue Fei mausoleum. I just learnt from the Song city show the day before that Yue Fei was a hero in during Song dynasty.

There were 4 statues there, they said those were the prime minister of somewhere and his wife and 2 guards that betrayed Yue Fei causing his death. They 4 were chained up, stripped and kneeled down. People used to spit on them to show disgust, so now the management of this place put up a board asking people not to spit there.

Lunch time, we went to try this local famous restaurant called Lou Wai Lo. We had "dong po rou", beggar's chicken and etc. The food was yummy but super expensive. That beggar chicken if not mistaken cost somewhere around RM80.

We took ferry ride (sort of) to a small man-made island in West Lake and spent about 3 hours there. We were allowed to spend unlimited time on the small island and later we chose to leave the island through lei feng pagoda ferry terminal.

Once we got down from the ferry, there was a park nearby. We saw these plants, I think is cabbage plant which is not edible. :P

We were supposed to go "lei feng" pagoda but the time passed too fast. It was getting darker and by the time we reach there (by walking) the sun is already down. So we just took some photos from far at the same time admiring the sunset from bridge nearby and discard the intention to visit "lei feng" pagoda. This bridge is along "Sudi", another famous road around West Lake.

I think this is called Hefang jie where there were a lot stalls to buy stuff. Expensive, blood sucker, for tourist - explain all.