Shanghai Jake » photos http://coljac.net/china The only foreigner to ever blog from China. Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:12:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Zhujiajiao water town http://coljac.net/china/2009/10/zhujiajiao-water-town/ http://coljac.net/china/2009/10/zhujiajiao-water-town/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:31:14 +0000 Colin http://coljac.net/china/?p=137 Last week I made a day trip to the “water town” of Zhujiajiao. I call it “the Venice of the Eastern Zhejiang region” – which, if you aren’t familiar with Mandarin, may be easier to say – and it’s not hard to see why. The canals and bridges are very scenic indeed. A friend drove me there through the fiendish traffic in lovely autumn weather.

Unfortunately, not much weird stuff happened to me there, which is kind of nice but doesn’t make for great anecdoting. Here’s the best I can do. Firstly, we caught a toad. Secondly, I ate snails on a boat (they weren’t good.) Thirdly, I visited a Qing-era post office, where a security rule that the original rider had to come with the message occasionally resulted in corpses being lashed to horses along with the mail. Other than that, here are a couple of photos.

Really big incense. The chinese equivalent of the gondola. Toad. Inside a Qing-style courtyard and lake. Zhujiajiao canal. Mao, astroboy. Me.
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