Black and white... oooh so dramatic

Because I am just so deep and interesting I decided to post a couple of black and white photo's that I like but wouldn't fit anywhere. Tadah, and so concludes my snapshots of Shanghai

Suzhou

Lingering Garden Suzhou

 

 This is the Lingering Garden in Suzhou, don't be fooled by the greenery, there was snow on the roof. This is a classical Chinese Garden and it was really beautiful, there was even a lady in traditional Chinese dress draped across one of the decks. Though these photo's don't do it justice it is a world renowned garden and a heritage site.

Hangzhou

Hangzhou is a historical town not far out from Shanghai, It's renowned for it's beautiful lakes and temples so we took a day out to visit. Typically, as British tourists we managed to pick one of the coldest days to visit (it was snowing) as well as managing to get the local slow train to the wrong station. As a result we had a bit of a panic at the station and managed to surprise a lot of Locals by a little gang of British teenagers landing. After a fairly long taxi journey we reached the west Lake or Xī Hú as its called in Chinese.

We arrived fairly late and the weather was perfectly grey, but it was still a beautiful place to visit. So here's a couple photo's from around the lake.

Aimee and Bruce smiling through the cold

Me being an awesome tourist

If you look really closely one of these people isn't actually in the statue.

A wild red panda... or a cat whatever