Near the end of June 2015, I met a friend (one of my former students) in Hangzhou (the capital of Zhejiang Province) for a weekend. We were a bit unlucky with the weather (rain) and a weekend is not nearly long enough to get to know this amazing place.
I stayed centrally in a small hostel for foreigners, which was around the corner from a major street market. Sunny stayed in a different hostel for Chinese only. So we would meet up and spend much of our time around the famous West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011. There wasn’t much time or inclination to go anywhere else, even though it was very crowded, in the rain.
Statue of Qian Liu, the founder and first king of the Kingdom of Wuyue, near the West Lake
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