Today is my first day of the short business trip to Zhejiang. I'm now in an apartment hotel in Ningbo blogging on the daytime I spent in Hangzhou today.

For a business trip, work is of course the first priority. But you can squeeze some time for yourseif if you can guarentee the work quality. That's just what I did today at Hangzhou, which I think is. I arrived at Hangzhou station at 11pm and and my work is to acomapnying  the client auditing our fieldwork before 4pm. I booked a 7pm train ticket to Ningbo for myself. So there will be 3 hrs interval left for me to pay a vist to the famous West Lake. Three hrs is not long enough for one to really appreciate the beauty of the lake, but long enough to slake my curious: why it's so famous a lake?

After the work is done, I hop a taxi directly to the lake and spent 2 hrs there. I've to admit the lake worthy of the fame. Hangzhou people should be proud of it. West lake is embeded into the city and blends with the city. I mean the West Lake is not only for the tourist but more for the city. It's open with no wall or fence, it's free to vist and it has no obvious mark said it's designed for ousiders like the Summer Palace. It's more like a centre park.

Here are some photos I took:

LeiFeng Tower (雷锋塔), first glance of the lake. The original one falled in 1924 and the Hangzhou government spent 140,000,000rmb to re-erect it in 2001. But, I never know why the tower is called 雷锋. Does any one can tell me the reason?

 

The city and the lake blends well. Local people enjoy here.

Beautiful nightfall at the West Lake. BTW, do you see the "door"? It engraved "复旦光华". It's introduced to be in honor of Sun Yat-sen. I don't know why it exactly is. But feel honored 'cause "复旦光华" is also the name of my muniversity.