A Holiday Weekend in Hangzhou

Another very short weekend has come and gone at New Century. This weekend is Tomb Sweeping holiday in China so our week was only three days long. Since we have no school on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday (but we do have school on Sunday) we have had a lot of time to further explore the Hangzhou area.

After a fun night of Mexican food at a nice little place called The Maya, we woke up early on Thursday for a Tour de West Lake on the rental bikes. These bikes are not the best by any means, but a fun and cheap way to get away.

We worked our way around the lake, stopping at different points of interest including the West Lake Museum (where we finally found out that West Lake is a naturally occurring swamp but that people have scooped out the silt to make it a lake). Once again, we were the center of attention and many people asked to take pictures of me because of the blonde (or yellow as they see it) hair. My new way to combat this is to also take pictures of them. It is quickly becoming a fun game.