I let my photos talk for themselves about Wuzhen. It's really worth making a trip to visit the ancient watertown of Wuzhen especially the west scenic zone. Wuzhen comprises of the East zone and West Zone, but the west zone is more charming and beautiful. It is possible to visit both the east and west but we two old folks visited only the west, our legs does not listen to our heart hahaha, we wanted to go both the zone but legs too tired.
The ticket costs RMB120 for the Wuzhen West Scenic Zone and RMB100 for the Wuzhen East Scenic Zone and a combo of both places costs RMB150. No discount for senior citizen above 60.
After scanning the ticket at the entrance gantry, there's a queue for free ferry to go to the opposite side where the historic street was located. It saves some walking. It is possible to walk to the historic street without taking the free ferry but the ferry provided a short cut and saves some leg power and time.
The boat trip is less than a minute ride but a real short cut to the historic street.
The Indigo Fabric Workshop is a large, environmentally-friendly, print and dye workshop with an area of 2500m². Paved with green bricks, the cloth-drying space is filled with tall poles and terraced cloth frames. In addition to using bluegrass as dye for fabric, the dyehouse also employs its unique color roasting technique which can reproduce bright colors from plants belonging to the local flora, such as tea, mulberry bark and tallow leaves, hence its Chinese name, Caomu Bense, which means "true color from plants" in Chinese. As a traditional specialty product of Wuzhen and the favorite natural clothing material of the local people, patterned indigo cloth is an ideal souvenir for tourists.
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Wuzhen.com
Dont worry about food, there's some eateries, restaurants and push carts selling food, noodles, etc. As we had heavy morning buffet breakfast, we decided to buy some tea eggs and purple sweet potatoes for light lunch.
The rest of the photos shows the charming and beautiful ancient watertown of Wuzhen.
After a long satisfying trip at Wuzhen, we headed out to the bus stop for K350 to bring us back to Wuzhen Bus Station. The fare is RMB2. If you decided to visit the East Scenic Zone, take the free shuttle bus at the same bus stop, I guess you have to show the driver your admission ticket to take the free bus to the east zone.
We did not go to the east zone, besides of tiredness, we also worried about not catching the last bus (I think is 6.30 pm for the last bus from Wuzhen to Hangzhou), as we did not buy the tickets in advance, we hurried back to the bus station. Luckily there's no problem getting the tickets , the same story goes about our passport being in the hotel so we showed the staff the photocopied of our passports and the bus tickets that we bought from Hangzhou to Wuzhen. If we missed the bus, we had to take the taxis outside the bus station, I guess they would charge very expensive, at more than RMB100+.(But if there's four people, I think is worth it cause the ticket alone costs RMB30 for the return trip per adult), but I did not like to take taxis in foreign countries, they drove so fast and in one of my past travel trip, we almost got into an car accident cause the taxi driver drove so fast and braked so suddenly that we almost hit our heads at the front seats. The driver could even apologized by saying "Paisei"(Embarrassed or ashamed).
Once inside the bus station, head to the gate no. as indicated on the bus ticket.
Head to the hotel's reception to purchase the tickets at RMB20 each. The bus frequency is about every 30 minutes and takes about 1 hour to reach the airport but the bus will make another stop near Hangzhou Railway Station (not east) to pick other passengers and will stop about 20 minutes there but for those who are in a hurry, they can transfer to another bus that was leaving the pick up spot. So give yourself ample time to the airport.
Please NOTE, need to walk out to the road along Pinghai Road to take the airport shuttle bus, the bus wont drive into the driveway of the hotel. It will stop along Pinghai Road just outside the hotel.
We had dinner at the airport and craving for some home food, we ate Hainanese Chicken Rice that costs so expensive (more than S$10 per plate), and it does not taste as good as back home in Singapore but no complain cause we are really hungry.
For those who wish to purchase the famous Hangzhou Longjing Tea, they are available in the airport but more expensive than those sold downtown but they comes in beautiful packaging.
Our flight back to Singapore by Scoots was delayed by one hour, I guess was due to bad weather cause several other flights were delayed too. Finally, a smooth and comfortable flight by Scoots. This was my first time taking Scoots and I will take it again cause of the spacious seats and if they have good promotion fares.
This bring me to the end of my travel story of Nanjing/Hangzhou trip 2017 and look forward to my next trip very soon. :)
