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Today we visited the town of Zhouzhuang. Zhouzhuang is one of the most famous water townships in China, noted for its profound cultural background, the well preserved ancient residential houses, the elegant watery views and the strong local colored traditions and customs. It has been called the "Venice of the East."

Zhouzhuang is about 2 hours west of Shanghai. We left early this morning with the 14 German exchange students and their two chaperons and arrived around 9:30. Once we all got tickets (we had to have our photo taken and printed on the ticket) we entered the small village. We all walked together until 11 where we stopped and at lunch. This little water village specializes in pork, and it was very delicious. We also had some other local cuisine, noodles (which are hard to deal with using chopsticks, see Mr. Liang showing us how to do it above), shrimp, tree fungus, mum fish, soup and of course rice. It was all very delicious.

After lunch we had free time to wander around the small village and explore some of the exhibit halls. JP and I wandered down to Shen's house - The first millionaire in the area way back 200 years ago. We then headed to the Quanfu Temple - which had lovely gardens. This Temple was next to the Chenxu Taoist temple, which was much smaller and didn't have any gardens. It was more a place of worship than a tourist area. From here we found the Zhouzhuang museum, which had pots and tools that dated back 3,000 years as well as a 30meter painting depicting the town, that took several artist 6 months to complete.

After our mini self guided tour of the town, JP and I did some shopping! We each bought a traditional style shirt in cotton as this is the material found in this area. Haggling with the vendors is expected and to get the best price you need to walk away as if you don't want it, then the vendors come running after you and give you a good deal.



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