Sunday, September 19, 2010

Shuzhou tour

After donating some RMB to the Longjing tea centre, we proceed to have our lunch in




This was not the lunch that I liked despite it has beautiful scenery around the restaurant. After lunch, always being intolerant to hot weather, and the stuffy bus despite with air-conditioned, (might be never get serviced) almost imperceptibly my condition worsed and immediately I took out the plastic bag for my migraine headache started and vomiting was imminent. Thus, I did not join the rest and sat in the bus and along a river. Damn! Everything I ate all vomited and not enough plastic bags for use. Lucky that hubby came to my rescue, but still vomited more and a couple next to us hanged me a bottle of "fong sa wang" an effective herbal first aid remedy for dehydration, vomiting and headache. Then I was able to join them to Suzhou. On the way, we went to an old cultural village.











Above photos are exact replica of the original cultural village near to the Grand Canal 京杭大運河; pinyin: Jīng Háng Dà Yùnhé) is the longest canal or artificial river in the world Starting at Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou.



With Miss Daisy from Brunei in the cultural village along the Grand Canal. No more vomiting and able to walk and finish the whole stretch of the cultural village. Miss Daisy reguested a photo taken for rememberance, I wonder she is 76 years old as quoted by her. I think she talked more than any of the tour guides. May God bless her with good health always....... to be continued....

continue.......


Introducing himself as “梅先生”or Mr Mei armed with the 4Ps of the marketing strategy,
1. Product = 龙井茶 one of the top rated tea in China and especially introduced by him as
"Qing Ming" tea cos it was plucked only in the month of Qing Ming".(old soul day)
2. Place = A small air-conditioned room for 28 of us with free LongJing Tea to drink.
3. Promotion = His promotional tactic involved his basic nutritional knowledge
introducing himself as a tea nutritionist. He shared that Longjing (dragon well) tea
is a green tea, and green tea is beneficial to our health in a number of ways.
Green tea is high in antioxidants which protect us from many diseases such a cancer
and heart disease. In addition, Longjing tea is used in traditional Chinese
medicine as an overall elixir with specific healing properties for treating food
poisoning, preventing cavities, fighting viruses, controlling high blood pressure
lowering cholesterol and lowering the blood sugar level.


AAA or the Royal rated Longjing tea.


(A) rated longjing tea. I only managed to buy a small can of this A rated and already costed me RMB400 equivalence to RM200. Damn expensive!


B rated or the normal longjing tea.


Longjing tea terraces on the far end of the building.

4. Price = This is the last P that he quoted upon our request.

Hangzhou tour

After the late dinner (or called supper) in Hangzhou the nite before, we needed to wake up early for breakfast in the hotel and proceed to another day of our sightseeing tour.
Here we were greeted by the Hangzhou local tour guide "Xiao Li".


Infront of a temple (Yue Wang Miau) in Hangzhou.


2000 years old tree infront of Yue Wang Miau near to Yue Fei burial place.


Photo taken in a boat round Xi Hu (lake) which is 8 times of the island of Singapore.


A local Hangzhou tour guide Xiao Li explained to us in the boat while touring round the lake. We only toured a fraction of the whole lake.


A range of mountain; photo taken from the boat at the lake.


Scenic of Hangzhou City overlooked from the Lake.


Ancient Pagoda


Another Pagoda on the opposite of the above one.


The boat we used to tour round the lake.


Fishes in the other part of the lake.


Ripples produced by the fishes look like haunted dragon.


Green grapes


A garden overgrown with "Du Dang" flowers on the other part of the lake. I have red species in my own compound and felt ashamed that I do not know its name in English.


There are lots of big rocks arround the garden for visitors to sit on and under the tree with beautiful red leaves acting as garden shed.


An olden temple converted into a business centre selling titbits made from different flavours of the tea. Here, the Chinese are really demostrating the 4Ps of the marketing strategy, if you r in the marketing field, one finds that Chinese are real experts and u never know that your pocket gets burned untill your pants gets slipped off. Wakakaka......

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