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Monday, April 28, 2008

Hangzhou, China

Hangzhou is a small city with just almost 4 millions of habitants, close to Sanghai. There are a really big lake in the city where a lot of people go to get in boats.















As one of the most renowned and prosperous cities of China for much of the last 1,000 years, Hangzhou is also well-known for its beautiful natural scenery, with the West Lake as the most noteworthy location.The city of Hangzhou was founded about 2,200 years ago during the Qin Dynasty, it is listed as one of the Seven Ancient Capitals of China, but the city wall was not constructed until the Sui Dynasty (591).














It was the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom from 907 to 978 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. Named Xifu at the time, it was one of the three great centers of culture in southern China during the tenth century, along with Nanjing and Chengdu.

Hangzhou is located in northern Zhejiang province, eastern China, at the southern end of the Grand Canal of China, on the plain of the mid-lower reaches of the Yangtze River (Cháng Jiāng).















Hangzhou's climate is Humid Subtropical with four distinctive seasons and like everyplace where I was in China the hot feel is terrible for the humidity.

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