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Posted On Thursday, September 9, 2010 at
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by Alvin
During our time spent in the province of Jiangsu (江蘇), we ventured out to the contrasting lakes of Tai Wu (太湖) and Slender West Lake (瘦西湖) in Yangzhou (揚州). Tai Wu was huge and round while Slender West Lake was slim and long. Tai Wu was out in the country side and took us 2 hours to get to the different shores around the cities of Wuxi (無錫) and Suzhou (蘇州), while Slender West Lake sat prettily in the centre of the tidy city of Yangzhou. Yangzhou had been lauded for over a thousand years as THE place to relax and enjoy life's many finer aspects and famous poems had been written that are recited in the classrooms of present day China - 故人西辭黃鶴樓，煙花三月下揚州 ... 十年一覺揚州夢，贏得青樓薄倖名 etc. and the city had in recent years (2006) been awarded by the UN as "The Most Livable City In The World" (聯合國人居獎城市). 
The Slender West Lake located on the northern edge of Yangzhou was a masterpiece of "lake-scape" gardening. We took our time relaxing in the many beautiful scenic spots around this lake before boarding the high speed rail back to Suzhou. Tai Wu was altogether on a different scale, we visited the Tai Wu lake shores by the cities of Wuxi (無錫) and Suzhou (蘇州) on two separate days. We spent an enjoyable day walking by the lake park lands of Wuxi where we visited the scenic areas of 黿頭渚, 蠡湖公園, 渤公島 and the modern architectures of 蠡湖之光. The second day, we set off to the other lake shores of Tai Wu near Suzhou and visited the fishing village of 西山 and 石公山 via the graceful Tai Wu Bridges (太湖大橋) which were made up of 3 bridge heads; these bridges reminded us of Key West but on a smaller scale. To our surprise, we found on the way numerous up-market holiday resorts and posh villas as well as lake view restaurants. It was such a memorable day-out as we took a "local" bus back to town where we experienced the excitement of seeing fishermen, local punk rockers, farmers, builders, office ladies boarding and disembarking the bus over almost the entire length of 53 bus stops !! At the end, we were mighty glad to be getting off !!
During our time spent in the province of Jiangsu (江蘇), we ventured out to the contrasting lakes of Tai Wu (太湖) and Slender West Lake (瘦西湖) in Yangzhou (揚州). Tai Wu was huge and round while Slender West Lake was slim and long. Tai Wu was out in the country side and took us 2 hours to get to the different shores around the cities of Wuxi (無錫) and Suzhou (蘇州), while Slender West Lake sat prettily in the centre of the tidy city of Yangzhou. Yangzhou had been lauded for over a thousand years as THE place to relax and enjoy life's many finer aspects and famous poems had been written that are recited in the classrooms of present day China - 故人西辭黃鶴樓，煙花三月下揚州 ... 十年一覺揚州夢，贏得青樓薄倖名 etc. and the city had in recent years (2006) been awarded by the UN as "The Most Livable City In The World" (聯合國人居獎城市). 
The Slender West Lake located on the northern edge of Yangzhou was a masterpiece of "lake-scape" gardening. We took our time relaxing in the many beautiful scenic spots around this lake before boarding the high speed rail back to Suzhou. Tai Wu was altogether on a different scale, we visited the Tai Wu lake shores by the cities of Wuxi (無錫) and Suzhou (蘇州) on two separate days. We spent an enjoyable day walking by the lake park lands of Wuxi where we visited the scenic areas of 黿頭渚, 蠡湖公園, 渤公島 and the modern architectures of 蠡湖之光. The second day, we set off to the other lake shores of Tai Wu near Suzhou and visited the fishing village of 西山 and 石公山 via the graceful Tai Wu Bridges (太湖大橋) which were made up of 3 bridge heads; these bridges reminded us of Key West but on a smaller scale. To our surprise, we found on the way numerous up-market holiday resorts and posh villas as well as lake view restaurants. It was such a memorable day-out as we took a "local" bus back to town where we experienced the excitement of seeing fishermen, local punk rockers, farmers, builders, office ladies boarding and disembarking the bus over almost the entire length of 53 bus stops !! At the end, we were mighty glad to be getting off !!
