#43 Trip to Hangzhou

We took our first Chinese road trip shortly after Christmas to a small town (6.4 million people) about two hours from here called Hangzhou (pronounced "Hong-Joe"). Hangzhou is a modern city with a 1000 year history and scenic gardens around a body of water called West Lake.

We unfortunately had a couple of very cold and rainy days in Hangzhou, but it was still a very beautiful place with an enjoyable bit of sightseeing. Pictured above are the Lingyin Buddist Temple, a laughing budda carved directly into the rock hillside and Kathleen and Tony on one of the West Lake Islands.

In Chinese cities such as Hangzhou, it is quite hard to find cuisine to please the young American children so we found our best meal of the trip at the Hangzhou Hooters. The food was mamahuhu (Chinese for "so-so"), as were the Hooters. More pictures of Hangzhou can be found at the following snapfish link.