One did not expect 51 from Shanghai to Suzhou is so not buy tickets. VB calculations with my classmates: from Shanghai to Suzhou is just 40 minutes, we can get up 7:00, and then rushed to the bus station around 8:00, and then buy a ticket, waiting on the bus, how can also appear in the Suzhou Railway Station 10:00 plaza.
We get up at 7:00, to go out at 7:40, 8:10 arrived at Xujiahui traffic Daewoo, a question that only the car at 2 pm, while the door is also roam the crowds of people. We rushed two exchanged views and decided to immediately rushed to the railway station, it is estimated that a short train car, should be able to buy standing tickets. Rushed to the railway station around 8:30, came in a long line, finally turn yourself, ask the ticket to Suzhou No. 1 standing tickets have not even gone. I Gee, how could this be? ! Nanjing, there were already proceeding with the tour, and it seems that we arrived at the appointed time, Suzhou is a bit impossible.
We quickly decided to vote immediately to find dealers, ask around in a circle, and only 10 points after the vote. We began to feel worried, is this point, see the ticket office in front of there tour kind of a middle-aged cite flags, in the past one ask, is assembling the personnel to fill a bus, 9:00 to Nanjing, Suzhou, also stopped along the way . It seems that we find a savior, as quickly in the past waiting for. And so on ah ah ah, etc., etc., until 9 o'clock, and still not have a car's shadow. Middle-aged man to one side constantly telling us not to worry, the car come at once. In fact, he is also very anxious and constantly calling contact. Finally around 9:20, the car should be up. Just when everyone was gathered to prepare the car to the roadside, from the road right-off came two others, caught the middle-aged tour guide you want to view the certificate, the middle-aged tour guide his own card and handed the two so-called tourist bureau people, and then to worry that he was going to contact the car, first check the certificate, one will come back, and then cross the road, not into the sea in the. People began around the two men. However, It took another 10 minutes, middle-aged man has not come back. We think we can not wait any longer and decided to obtain other ticket brokers. More than double to buy two 10-point face to Suzhou. Flew a while ran into the platform, find the trips, to sit down and discovered that hungry to death:)
After 40 minutes the car stopped in Suzhou. Outbound then decided to go first hotel. Stopped a taxi and went straight to Suzhou University, Suzhou, but the taxi driver Tempers are large, one heard that we go to great Soviet Union, it soon became red against us that do not! Putting us off our Huo Da is also, almost going to complain that their. Finally stopped at one, but also face is not happy. However, for a chat in the car after the driver Daoshi also heard that we're going to find a place to live near the Soviet Union large, it suggested that we go to a new area, where visitors will be less. We are one, too. So on the North Korea District away.
Are on the way, received a playmate of the phone, tell us first go to the collection. So letting the driver turned back to the lion's plaza. In around in a back and forth, finally get their cars under the lion's plaza, this began our journey in Suzhou.
2 Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou, one of the name, I heard that 108 can be found inside the lion, all of various shapes, images and vivid, all the way to travel all the way to find, do not have some fun.
But tell the truth, let me recall the characteristics and Lion Grove Garden in Suzhou's unique, I really can not tell. Close your eyes, in front of Lion Grove is a peak and visitors crowd, as if rocks were covered with each person, every corridor is coming and going of. In addition to a unique Banbi know there are a pile of clay kiosks, other seems to be little impressed by. In addition, a playmate little horse (this is my nickname for her to take, and write it happened to receive her message, He He) physical discomfort, thus hastily out from the Lion Grove. Decided to look for a place to live.
Get out the door and I tell you that, or go to the island, I heard than in the city where the user said fun. Discussed for a while, everyone agreed, so he decided to go for dinner. To the very concept of Suzhou, the famous Front Street, is filled with people. Xu said that China should be to eat a small snack name (what shrimp to the, well, that impression is no: (), so get in the store, sold out, and store the child is not very clean, but since they can only eat so with the. and so on for a while, Pao Quwen billing, and there is not that what the shrimp, and billing of rigidly with Suzhou words: no! Oh, what age, and also this! forget, do not eat the.
User recommended to go out the opposite is affordable fair trade Kawabuku floor (I have found particularly high usage of the name, everywhere in Sichuan Pavilion love with this name, and Shanghai in the near where I live there is a Kawabuku F), into a look, or a fully staffed, and other bar! However, little horse on the blunt, and straight to a guest had left the table to sit down, but the waiter said the dead are not willing to let us sit there, because this table is a table for two. Fortunately, the table next to the other guests have gone, in the past to sit down and begin to eat a la carte. Little bit of horse because of his illness, eating very little, and I am because there are two dishes that I do not eat, so I finally felt did not eat, but the food is delicious. Very funny, the little horse a bowl of rice, over a long service and said that they had no rice, so that he is not willing to go through.
In the view of Front Street finished wandering around people, noisy and disorderly, walked Xuanmiao Temple ago, people find it very boring, it is better to Dongshan directly.
Out of view of Front Street, stopped a taxi directly to the Dongshan.
3 Dongshan in Suzhou, eastern suburbs (literally understood, but seems to be named in the east of Taihu Lake bar), Taihu Lake, the beautiful mountains, lake the same color, Sharp is an attractive option. However, when we arrived Dongshan in no mood for sightseeing. Our primary problem is to find a hotel first to stay.
We first visited the Dongshan River core Dongshan Hotel inquire when you live in, obviously not our prices so affordable self-service tour, and were dropped. Finally by comparing a few, checked into the rather electric hotels, rooms fairly clean. Things down and rest for a while, we decided to catch up in the dark before going to far to see the lake.
Get out the door and found that we just looking for a hotel with us when you have two tricycle at the door waiting for us, because that good price, and we there is no weeding out, go visit the Taihu Lake Zuoshang Ju away.
2 tricycle driver was able to say that along the way to give us Dongshan Scenic Spot and the cultural landscape. They told us, Dongshan filmed here, a lot of film and television, for example some time ago the Central Taiwan hit the "orange red" (Xu Let's talk about this little drama, they say some people change their name to this drama, "green hat", ha ha is interesting) is a citrus orchard in Higashiyama inside photographed; in addition to Zhang Yimou's "Shanghai Triad, Triad" is also filmed here, and later Gong Li for this reason, also shot in this film and bought a small island down, named: Gong Li Island. Such anecdotes and allusions such as these two drivers told us all the way in which the driver B than in A appear to be able to say, it is estimated B Xing Hu, A called B Jiaohu I. J
Standing on the edge of Lake Taihu, nearly see Taihu Lake, look magnificent, distant inundated with a lagoon, in the Bibo Yang Zhuo Fan Huang slowly slowly in Akira. Castle Peak in the distance and the blue smoke in the misty twilight or implicitly or are, it seems also as the Old Ship ship float.
B began to explain to us the driver, he said that Emperor Qianlong year tour aboard the Old Ship is a lake left, where the edge of the boat, and now repair a Royal Marble Boat (Perhaps, a bit could no longer remember). I (naively) Q: The ship was then Qianlong sat do? The answer is certainly not J.
In the lake stood the wind for a moment, we will go to East Lake Villas, listening to the driver that there can be no closer to the lagoon but Mai Menpiao went to see (in fact, when the attractions of the early work, but the door was locked). Soon, we reached a newly developed front of the lawn. The land was originally just a grassland Beach, was later sold to East Lake Village Dongshan Town Government, and then be re-vegetation in East Lake Villas. Across the lawn came to Lake Tai, the water is very clear, not dirty. Walking in the lake facing the lake the wind was very nice, well that can vaguely see the other side, in fact, it was not shore, is another island - the Western Hills.
In ancient side of the boat took a few phase, we feel a little hungry, just go backwards. Heard of Taihu Lake have three great treasures: silver fish, ... ... (Oh, you remember this one thing: the)), and then we feel even more hungry for. The way, we get Lake Tai in the wild pods blowing for a long time, because the driver can actually A blow to the sound of loud.
Gradually to dark days, the driver took us to a newly-opened New Dragon Gate restaurant, tell us here, tasty food and fair prices. We are pleased to go, just think of the final dish a very small eyebrow and expensive, and we felt the pinch, was the driver cheated. So we discussed how much money a driver will, as a beginning driver told us that as long as four banks of Lake Tai money, but actually take this path, but they also have to give us a guide, we began to feel embarrassed and think we should give more to the point. Now we have filled with righteous indignation, decided to Jiugei 4 money.
After dinner, we were out the door, those two drivers do not wait for us at the door. So we decided to go back. To be honest, walking in the early spring night, it is a taste. Here is a very quiet night, only occasionally zips by on motorcycles. On both sides of the road is thick orange forest, under the night seems dark and deep, spreading waves of roadside of frogs.
We joked all the way, spoke a number of fun and funny topic, unknowingly returned to the town. As we will come in to town, our driver arrived. We then give you the money, we should first ask them how much to give. They was very generous to say: look to the Well to Well look. So we gave a 4, they Daomo say, took the money and then tell us tomorrow, waiting for us at the hotel entrance.
So we were happy to buy poker, and then as happy to buy fruit, and then get back to the hotel happy to start playing poker. In fact, I found two men and two women come out to play is really very interesting, no one idle, playing together is really fun, the play on the play to 11 or thereabouts. San Huo, we go back and wash sleep.
4 the morning, we decided to go hiking here, since it is far more the island, in relation to the Higashiyama (in fact, nothing Higashiyama:)) go up. Before we discussed for a long time, first climbing, or to visit some other attractions, finally, we decided to first go mountain climbing, and then down the mountain Zaiqu visit.
Get out the door yesterday, the two driver at the door waiting for us, so on the train. (Oops, it seems that apart from a place, other places do not remember, and seems to really want to come back immediately after the finish, drag is now not even been to places that are not remember: (, really painful!), But waiting for me on the bus, the driver began to arrange the day of our trip, how to walk, you can put Dongshan has completed most of the attractions, but finally told us: 100 fares! By this time we know that yesterday they are on our way Finally, accompanied by explanations and do not care about the price of the original are aimed at pre-investment and business sense to do in fact really is very good.
However, we consider a moment to decide, or our own past, because we want to, we estimate that there is no time to play so much, if we all go again, at least they would go on to be a day of Dongshan, forget, we still get off bar. So we take on the minibus and went to the first leg of our design: Mid-level (perhaps called the name bar, and now it is forgotten has come, He He).
Bump for nearly 40 minutes to reach our destination. Looking at some gloomy, peer into mutual asked whether the band umbrella out: only a small one man brought! So we began to hope that we will not rain.
Start climbing the!
From the foot of the mountain view, whole mountain is filled with citrus, although the gloomy gloomy days, but the dark green mountainsides of the orange leaves still look lush, vaguely mid-levels can be seen, there is a "temple." We started going up along the road, we did not feel the effect of weather, sometimes I want to bounce the mountains. Perhaps half of the walk, we found a path on the roadside, evidently should be able to pass to the summit, small Xu said: This is not is the "orange red" inside show and kite-flying ground, and Yaohui children? Let it be child's cry, we go up from here!
Walking in the citrus rooms, a surge of light incense Hunzhaoyigu surrounded by the breath of earth around us, strange cozy and comfortable. Suddenly, the little horse with a plant found in the ground long, forming a kind of long pod-like fruit, she plucked a pleasure to play, just when a Laosou down from the hills, became firmly established in the little horse in front , with Suzhou, murmured words of one, we did not understand, she asked him, he had said something, this time we came to understand, he said that we should not Zhai pods, not yet ripe, pick to leaf useless, really浪费. We stretch Shen Shetou, Ganjin Wang on the go. Fortunately, Laosou did not say at what has passed from us.
We climbed to the foot of the mountain to see that "temple", discovered that in fact this is a old abandoned house, front of the house has a pool and used to develop artificial rockery, but are now covered with weeds, but they ruined the scene more appealing to us , standing here, really a little "orange red" where the kind of mood. So we picked up the camera, "Kaka," a few. And then walked over to the front of another house.
This is an old stand in front of the house, the following is a col, along the mountains and forest and the orange, the col in the thick of the scattered a number of residential areas is clearly Ming and Qing dynasties, and we guess that is tourist map of the land, said Lane ancient village bar. Houses scattered throughout the col, the residence also scattered among the dark green of the citrus, delete col is dragged along the residential areas in Taihu Lake (To be honest, I am now holding photographs there that day), single from the hills of view, in the slightly It had started to rain, the whole village seemed quiet and serene, white walls and blue tile wanders the dark ink ink orange green, slightly distant hill was covered a thin layer of smoke, is simply a heaven's landscape . Mixed feelings here, I began to have a unique selection of ancestors house vision, a kind of living in Sri Lanka when the length of the impulse.
Rain began to big up our short discussion, he walked back along the long route or continue to move forward, and then went to col hillside between the Middle Kingdom, the result is that we then move forward. So we began to walk through the forest in the orange. The more rain the next larger, and only an umbrella, how can I do? Fortunately, my little horse's clothes are all drainage type, so we both wore on their clothes and move forward. Not progressed very far, the rain began to burst, the no way back to retrace their steps Road bar. Was about to walk back and found that hop appears to be leading down the mountain trail, so I lead them joy of trail down from.
Because it was raining, bad idea to go to the original path is muddy began after several of their "curse" I, I constantly advise them, believe me, this must be way down the mountain road, we go from here can also be walked back to our point of departure.
Fortunately, did not go far, we have seen previously in the mountains to see houses. Out of the orange forest, is a pond, the pond there is an old woman who was washing clothes, little bit of horse in the past asked: old lady, how can we go?
May be too much rain, maybe the old lady behind the ears, and she no grounds us. We can only blindly down the alley in front of moving forward. Through this alley, hooked another alley, from the alley's brick wall on both sides of the fat green mottled marks left by years, we can feel the village's ancient and distant, at the foot of the stone is a somewhat smooth path I recall that whenever such a nostalgic old lanes must be such as quartzite Road: Mill Street, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places or streets Hechuan Jiangjin Guizhou, Duyun stone street, as well as my own hometown Natiao I has been traversed many times Panchiao Street ... ... 5. could there so that I now feel a mottled brick wall across the alley, if not the stone path, then it is certainly not the former left.
Greater rain, and me and little horses "anti-mac" also soaked, and even though the little umbrella Xu and VB, they are still wet half. We are a rapid walk through the guxiang years, passed a Xuyan old doors, little bit of fun to open the horse looked at, they chickened out, the people inside heard the door ring, umbrella out of view, out of the 1 Laosou, we quickly Duixiao, the request for the elderly so that we go in sheltering the elderly is very readily agreed, so we cheered for the elderly to follow into this small courtyard. The door on the left wall is a wall, the same mottled walls, wall covered with green grass, a little jolt from heels, wall is still green citrus; in the yard there is a pressure well, and then further go planted with a a plate of small seedlings, in Lili's even more of the refreshing rain, and delicate, stood on the steps along the front of the Jipen chrysanthemums; house is in rural southern China, the traditional two-tier structure, the house is a southern form Jervois characteristics of a traditional residential area, wood doors, wood windows, wooden staircase; hall furnishings are simple, being the door is a sacrificial platform, next to the square table dazzling pile of leaves on the table against the wall an old radio, a few baskets hanging above the table; house, although some old, but it looked very clean.
Old greeting us in, we became firmly established first entered into the hall outside the door again opened, came in an old woman brought out a platter clothes - actually that is just now coming out from the orange-lam, the old lady crossing the pond asked, little horse and small Xu also a bit excited. Like the old lady, and grandfather, warmly greeted us casually come to sit, and we politely told the elderly, need not care about us. Little horses and little they may have never been to such a people, looked very excited, especially the small expectations, what are more curious and fun, little horse Daoshi that frame the entrance to the elderly on the onion is very interested in breaking off to the hands play with.
Soon, we all piled on the table for the elderly are interested in the green leaves, and asked for the elderly, what is it Dongdong? At this time the elderly has begun to work, and constantly picking picking up those leaves, old man told us that this is their well-known here, Bilodeau spring tea (ah, we began to amazement, to be honest, the light on the very poetic name) just because this is not off to the eve of the Ching Ming Festival, and therefore can not count a good Bilodeau spring, so the tea in general is that their own speculation at home to their own bubble. So we began to ask the elderly, why pick up these Zhai tea? While picking up the elderly side and we explained to the tea can not have too much speculation and older leaves, so should they pick out, we asked about how picking up, and started to help the elderly Zhai pick it up. The elderly did not put off while Ganhuo side and we are engaged in small talk, they said the Suzhou dialect is not understood very well, but sounds very good and very interesting to listen to from time to time what the elderly themselves, spoke. The old man told us that the last good Bilodeau Ching Ming Festival in spring to catch a few days before picking, and then find a special person frying. We listened to work, think that novel, and fun.
The help of our finished soon picking tea leaves, the elderly picked up the tea into the next room. We started in the living room according to similar effect, the hold a cabbage put a POSE, brought the basket to be a decoration, and then moving a bench, dragging old baskets, braving the strands of rain drift drifting from time to time to make crafts to return the occasional appearance ... ... The old lady always walked with a very kind eyes watching us laugh slapstick.
Tired of, I played fiddle in the living room and that old radio station, did not think it even can also be used, which heard sweet music, I thought it was shut. I also degrees into the old man is to work, the house, here is the original kitchen, old people are frying tea leaves and mud very old puzzle of the Furnace, the above were stained with a number of black marks, looking a bit dirty, but I do not for these strange, because I in my childhood home, where every family can be seen this Furnace. Grandfather constantly turned over by hand outside of tea, light a fire inside the old lady in that they are doing with a soft tone of voice communication, seems to be constantly in control of the furnace, in the hands of grandparents, constantly churn to curl in tea along with water vapor the air was filled with the fragrance of a plant. I am quiet standing next to the elderly frying watching and listening to the words of their communication with each other. Life is definitely more of the elderly poor, their clothes on the name of a few patches, his weathered face and hands of the hoarse voice reveals traces of the passage of time, but they are each other's words, the feel a little tired of life dissatisfaction and and feel to go to is a kind of relative calm and peaceful moisten with Mu.
So I stood silently tea micro twilight years, quietly watching over the elderly frying ... ...
5 about 1:30 I think the rain will not stop, and volunteered to go out on the Pathfinder and bought back a few umbrellas. I struggled to get out the door, turn turn ah, ah, at least a few people inquire after the Malaysian reached the road, find the store, bought three umbrellas. Then walk back.
As I go back to when the rain stopped, the sun also came out, I fainted! No alternative but to hold an umbrella on this car back to the Dongshan Town.
Back to the Dongshan Town, find the bus back to Suzhou, the car must go, and then bumps nearly two hours later returned to Suzhou, Suzhou, thus the end of our trip.
May 1 ~ 2 day tour in Suzhou
May 23 finalized
Author: ricky_li
