sleeper train to Suzhou

So. We were on a 15 hour, sleeper train to Suzhou. Didn’t get much sleep though and was resltess all night. The train seemed to get noiser at night, even with all the snoring. Anyway i caught a few glimpses in the early hours but that was it.

We arrived at Suzhou and had to get a cab to our hotel, in the downtown. We nearly didn’t make it. The car was being flung around at 100km/h, playing chicken with lorries and busses and our driver didn’t recognise red lights. It was like a Bond car chase. But needless to say, as i am sitting here typing this, we obviously made it alive…just.

Out hotel was grotty, bery grotty but you;ll find out more later…

We went to the Master of Nets Gardens. This was a typical classical chinese style garden, embracing the feng shui. It was amazing. It was beautiful. I’ll get a picture on here when i can.

After that we went for a walk round Suzhou. It is descrived as the “Venice of the East”. It has a few canals i’ll give it that much. So after an hour or so we headed for some food.