Shanghai / Suzhou

Shanghai and Suzhou #

Shanghai is, of course, amazing. We also took some time to visit a small (for the chinese) nearby town called Suzhou. Incredible beauty and history.

An ornate carved grey stone gateway with a Chinese inscribed plaque and figure reliefs, Shanghai, China A tiled roof and carved stone gateway with an inscribed plaque, framed by dark pillars, Shanghai, China Visitors gather in a tiled pavilion above a rockery in a classical Chinese garden, its roof reflected in a lily-covered pond A red-leafed maple grows out of a limestone rockery beside a whitewashed garden wall with a latticed window in Shanghai A stacked scholar’s rock full of holes and mossy ledges stands against a weather-stained white garden wall in Shanghai A man sits grinning in a carved wooden chair while a woman laughs beside him, surrounded by scroll paintings in a Shanghai art shop A round silk embroidery of a water town, with tiled houses, an arched stone bridge and two boats, displayed on a stand for sale A visitor with a red drawstring bag stands in a circular moon gate, looking out at tourists climbing a garden rockery in Shanghai A woman with a red umbrella walks a mossy rock ledge along a green garden pond, tiled roofs and autumn trees behind her A man in a grey jacket stands on a garden path beside a hollow tree trunk and bamboo fence, tiled pavilions across the pond

Tourists stand under the sweeping upturned tiled roof of a garden pavilion, with covered walkways and pines around it An old pine leans horizontally over a bamboo garden fence, its flat canopy spread wide as visitors walk past a white wall Three people stand talking in a Chinese garden courtyard beneath a split old tree trunk, with tiled roofs and pines behind them A mantel clock, blue-and-white vase and green stone sit below a latticed window looking onto bamboo, flanked by calligraphy scrolls Three visitors stand at the foot of a garden rockery under curving tiled roofs and a grey sky in Shanghai Two women taking phone photos stand on a mossy rock ledge above a still green pond, reflected below a white garden wall A woman in a dark jacket sorts white silkworm cocoons at a workbench in a silk factory, green baskets beside her Visitors on a stone arch bridge below an ivy-covered city wall and tiered wooden gate tower in China People crossing a stone arch bridge over a canal beside tiled-roof wooden houses in a Chinese water town Carved grey stone gateway with an inscribed plaque and upswept tiled roof, seen from a dark courtyard in China View from a boat of a stone arch bridge crowded with people, red lanterns hanging along the canal in China

Blue-canopied wooden boats moored on a canal below a stone arch bridge and whitewashed houses in China Shanghai at night from high above, the lit Oriental Pearl Tower among skyscrapers along the Huangpu River Looking up at night at the Jin Mao Tower and the twisting Shanghai Tower lit red along its edge The Shanghai World Financial Center at night, its wedge-shaped tower and trapezoid opening seen from street level Hazy daytime view over Shanghai from a high window, office towers crowding a bend in the Huangpu River Classical Chinese garden in the rain: a tiled pavilion and white walls above a green pond with lily pads Panorama from a bridge over a wide canal in China, a man in an orange cap on the steps and a gate tower beyond Three Shanghai skyscrapers seen from below against grey cloud: the World Financial Center, Jin Mao and Shanghai Tower Beds of red, pink and white flowers beside a wide Shanghai road, office towers rising behind trees under blue sky

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