Long Trip - China Hangzhou - 27th September
During my flights I always want to take some photos of planes outside. Big airports gave me a few chances to try it.
When my plane was near Shanghai I saw a huge smog above the city. It was dark down there.
Once I landed and filled out an arrival card, after 20 minutes in the queue I was in China. My hostel was located in an old town of Hangzhou.
The cheapest way to get there is to take an underground from PVG airport to Hongqiao Railway Station, line number 4. I had 2 interchange in the meantime.
The first one was on Guanglan Road station and the second one on Songhong Road station. Ticket cost 8RMB and it took around 1 hour.
From Guanglam I took a train to Hangzhou East Railway station - almost 2 hours. I found extremely long queues to the train ticket counters, horrible experience.
A lot of Chinese people were elbowing their way to be the first one. This ticket cost 46.5 RMB.
When I arrived to the city I took an underground to my station. ticet machines are in Chinese but have an English language too.
One policeman helped me to buy my ticket. I bought it and after crosing gates I realised that I need to go few stations further.
They explained me that I will pay the difference on the last station so I could continue with my ticket.
They don't speak good English but there are a lot people speaking a litle bit.
Hangzhou is very old city and in the past it was very rich.
There is a sky city and some districts with old buildings. The West Lake is a nice area for walks. It is important to watch out for cyclists and scooter riders as they don't respect pedestrians.
In the evening the Lake area is great.
During my flights I always want to take some photos of planes outside. Big airports gave me a few chances to try it.
When my plane was near Shanghai I saw a huge smog above the city. It was dark down there.
Once I landed and filled out an arrival card, after 20 minutes in the queue I was in China. My hostel was located in an old town of Hangzhou.
The cheapest way to get there is to take an underground from PVG airport to Hongqiao Railway Station, line number 4. I had 2 interchange in the meantime.
The first one was on Guanglan Road station and the second one on Songhong Road station. Ticket cost 8RMB and it took around 1 hour.
From Guanglam I took a train to Hangzhou East Railway station - almost 2 hours. I found extremely long queues to the train ticket counters, horrible experience.
A lot of Chinese people were elbowing their way to be the first one. This ticket cost 46.5 RMB.
When I arrived to the city I took an underground to my station. ticet machines are in Chinese but have an English language too.
One policeman helped me to buy my ticket. I bought it and after crosing gates I realised that I need to go few stations further.
They explained me that I will pay the difference on the last station so I could continue with my ticket.
They don't speak good English but there are a lot people speaking a litle bit.
Hangzhou is very old city and in the past it was very rich.
There is a sky city and some districts with old buildings. The West Lake is a nice area for walks. It is important to watch out for cyclists and scooter riders as they don't respect pedestrians.
In the evening the Lake area is great.
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| Lake area |
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| My master :-) |
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| Food |
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