Garden of Lions

Few days ago, I went to a tourist spot in SuZhou named Shi Zi Ling, which means Garden of Lions in Chinese. There are obviouslly no lions in the 600 hundred old garden, just about 100 lion-like rocks which are placed almost everywhere in the antique garden.
I bought tickets which costs 15 yuan to go inside the fancy garden. It is said that an emporer was once lost in this gigantic garden. I was almost lost too. I walked about 2 hours in this gardens. Besides the lion-like rocks, there is also a huge maze made out of again lion-like rocks which is as big as a mini-mountain.
There is a pagoda at the center of the lake called Hu Xin Ting, which means the pagoda in the middle of the lake (duh,). There is also a pagoda which a emperor once went before and gave its name, Zhen Qu Ting. Its name was once Zhen You Qu Ting, which means fun pagoda, but the You in the name was taken away because it was too goofy.
After buying a book at the souvenir store, I went back home.

Chang Zhou- Dinosaur Park

Today, I went to a fun park, called Dinosaur Park. This isn't one of those boring museums like Natural History Museum, or any cheesy playgrounds that you can see anywhere. This is a theme park, that is as fun as Lego land and Disney Land.

This park includes as much as 20 rides, from roller coaster to water slides. To ride all of the rides, you need to be at least 150cm tall. Besides the fun rides, there are also other stuff like Elephant Show, Bird Show, Seal Show and 4D Cinema.

There are kiddie rides, like King Kong, and exciting rides, like the 'Big Windmill' which rotates 360 degrees while its speed is about 40km/h. There are about 40 souvenir shops and snack bars, which sells many meals that will fill up your hungry belly.

After riding the cool rides, you can always go to the Dinosaur Museum, which contains real fossils and helpful information. The sad news is, the park closes at 5:00 o'clock in winter which is now, so if you wanna ride all the rides, you have to come here early!

2nd Day in Hang Zhou

I woke up at 8:00 o’clock, which was a pretty hard thing to do because of last night watching movies and television series at the hotel. After eating breakfast at the Chinese fast food restaurant besides the hotel, then I went on the bus to go to today’s destination——Long Jing Village, which was famous for its tea, Long Jing tea. It took 45 minutes via bus, and 15 minutes via car, which is also known as the local taxi to a place near the village. I walked up the village through a road which the Emperor Kang Xi had took a walk before.

After walking up to the village, I went to a restaurant, and ate some local food, which included sour and sweet fish, Dong Bo Pork, and some kind of chicken soup that I’m not familiar with. After eating, I went down with a ‘local’ taxi to a bridge which is very long. I bought a handmade kite which costs 50 Yen and broke after 30 minutes by someone who was clumsy.

After walking pass the bridge, I went to rent a bike, but I couldn’t because you have to make a special card for it, which the place to make it is 20 minutes away from here. So I didn’t rent the bike, instead I went to a grand restaurant which has many good steak. After eating steak and drinking milkshake there for about 2 hours, I went back to the hotel and got a good night’s sleep.

At Hang Zhou 1/2

I arrived China this Thursday, via train to Kuala Lumpur from Penang, and to Hang Zhou via Air Asia. I travelled at Hang Zhou before arriving my destination- Su Zhou, which is 2 hours away from here, Hang Zhou.

On the first day at Hang Zhou, I checked in into a three-stared hotel which has many good shows on TV (Really, with nice drama and movies). After putting the luggage and bags, I went for a stroll at XiHu Lake. When it was 5 o'clock, the sky already got pretty dark. And then some guy begin selling some simple but fun lighted-toys that you play it by tossing it in the air with a band.

Although it was about 5 yen, but people were literally rushing to by that toy. By seven o'clock, the whole sky at the park is lighted by that toy. At eight o'clock, I watched a boring show of fountains just because many people were there prepared to watch it.

After eating some beef noodles, I went to bed at room 317.