near Shanghai, we visited the city of Suzhou. M it over 5 million inhabitants, e igentlich own big city ... but probably soon agglomeration of Shanghai. During the 40-minute train ride tore the roofs off at least not!
main motivation of the side trip was actually the Grand Canal which runs through Suzhou. The over 1800km extending gigantic structure is the longest man-made canal. He was in the 7th Century AD. of over 6 million forced laborers was built and the cornerstone of successful economic development of the east coast of China. Chinese have for wannabe travel according to the fact that the great wall was built to prevent contacts and communications, while selbige should be promoted through the channel ...
This is all well and good, but consider, for the channel is not nearly as spectacular as the Great Wall ... Even more promising for this was the trip to the nearby village of Tongli canal. In the resulting age village, almost all homes are on canals that are a total of 49 spans beautiful stone bridges. The atmosphere is reminiscent of Venice, unfortunately, the tourist crowds.
Tourism seems to be allgegenweärtig in China, where it is almost exclusively involved Chinese .... Especially on weekends or during holidays, as now, the huge crowd huge. We had to find in the last few days quite difficult to buy train tickets and accommodation ...
Suzhou itself has to offer also charming canals, but is mainly famous for its gardens. Their visit is obvious especially for Chinese exciting for us it was rather ordinary, albeit charming gardens with pavilions and ponds ...
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