Emily's Escapades » water town http://blog.emilyminor.com Life in Shanghai, China Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dropping fish from the bridge http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/22/dropping-fish-from-the-bridge/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/22/dropping-fish-from-the-bridge/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:44 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=2142 Supposedly, it is lucky to drop a few goldfish from the top of the bridge into the water below.  I don’t think it can be so lucky for the fish as you must drop them from the highest point!

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/22/dropping-fish-from-the-bridge/feed/ 1 People in Zhujiajiao http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/21/people-in-zhujiajiao/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/21/people-in-zhujiajiao/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:59 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=2132 ]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/21/people-in-zhujiajiao/feed/ 0 Zhujiajiao Scenery http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/20/zhujiajiao-scenery/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/01/20/zhujiajiao-scenery/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:55:55 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=2105 Franz and Vivi from Germany couch-surfed with us (well, Jon was in the US) in December.  Franz had studied Chinese here for a while, and had been to Zhujiajiao.  It’s the closest water town to Shanghai.  He wanted Vivi to see it and they invited me along.  I hadn’t been to any of the water towns yet.

Getting there and back was a bit of a hassle.  On the way, we took a taxi almost the whole way.  It took 1 hour and 34 minutes to get there, and cost 178 RMB.

On the way back, we took a taxi to the nearest subway station (She Shan) which took 38 minutes and cost 68 RMB, and then took the subway back into town.  I think that the subway also took well over an hour (but only cost 6 RMB.)

Tours online start at about $100 per person, so I guess it was good to do on our own!  The only annoyance was that at lunch they tried to keep us from ordering off of the local menu… they wanted us to order all of the expensive stuff (which was the only food translated into English.)

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