Suzhou: City of UNESCO Heritage Sites.

People said, if you live in Shanghai, you have to go to Suzhou for a short trip. So we did. We were pleased with our tour in Hangzhou, so we used the same tour service for Suzhou. We took the bullet train in the morning and reached our hostel. We found out that they removed Tiger Hill from the tour package and switched it with the City Wall that we wanted to visit on the first day. As it is initially not written in the tour website, they only told me this on WeChat wtf. We were effin annoyed that they told us this on last minute. But I kinda understand they want to avoid tons of people as we were visiting Suzhou on a national holiday for something. We were already in front of the Gupanmen when they told me that, luckily W and I haven't bought tickets yet. So we took a bus to the Tiger Hill Pagoda instead. It was a long bus ride. Then we learn that the Tiger Hill Pagoda is a must see place in Suzhou. They said, if you haven't visited the Tiger Hill Pagoda, you've never been in Suzhou :)

First thing we see.

Hangzhou: City Of Heaven and Love.

Last year February- not long after my Chinese New Year's Trip at the Jings, W and I went to Hangzhou for a day trip. It's definitely our very first visit the Zhejiang province and we were amused by how diverse and beautiful China is. W and I had to buy our tickets twice btw because the English counter speaking person couldn't differentiate between morning and evening #classicchina (¯―¯٥) But yeah, it was W's mistake using higher level of English, he admitted LOL! We showed up in the train station at night and the immigration ladies at the front of the station told us the train has left in the morning. We were like wtf?! That was such a cricket-chirp moment for the both of us. Luckily the ticket is CNY73, not like CNY553. So we bought another ticket and left the next morning. We booked a private tour via Hangzhou Private Tour (click the link and contact them via wechat if you're interested. They reply really quick via wechat! But Email will do too, I think.) and we did their One Day Essence Tour package; West Lake, Fish Viewing @ Flower Pond, Lingyin Temple, Meijiawu Tea Plantation and The Song Dynasty Imperial Street. We met up with our tour Guide, John. Driver and lunch included btw. So we were off our first destination, The West Lake.

Our real ticket to Hangzhou :))

The Jing Capitals Trip: Beijing - Nanjing.

It has been years since the last time I wrote my blog. I finally have the time for it after all these craziness going in my life. Long story short, I'm going to graduate from uni early next year, my brother got married October last year and I'm going home to Indonesia on end of July to welcome the newborn baby into the world, I became a food reviewer and managed to be a BonAPP Power User in Shanghai and living my life depending on free food and goods, I rescued a kitten last winter and she has grown into a really HUGE cat called Astrid, Willem and I are still madly in love after been in a nearly 2 years of amazingly wonderful relationship. SO, Willem and I decided to travel to a few cities last CNY but we compromised a lot and ended doing Beijing and Nanjing instead as they are the North and South Capital. At least, Nanjing is already an ex-capital city because the emperor couldn't make up his mind. We took the fastest bullet train from Shanghai to Nanjing (up to 300km/hr). The journey was about 2,5 hours more or less. Travelling with Willem is something because he NEVER let me go to sleep in the train because he doesn't wanna be left awake alone. It's a huge challenge for a pillowhead like me..

Our backpacking style. Don't mind the plastic bags, those are just trash that we'll throw away.