China Trip: Day 2

Thank goodness the morning call was not until 7am. You don’t know how dreadful it is to wake up at 5am in some tour. Phew. So after breakfast, we left for Hanshan Temple which is named after a poet-monk Han Shan who lived in the 7th century.

Then off to the biggest Silk Factory in China whereby we got to watch the making of silk and see some models parade silk wears. I think this place is such a rip-off. Very commercialize and no wonder tour guides are required to bring you to these places.

After lunch, we head straight for the Three Kingdoms Movieland whereby we got to see how the making of the movie of the 3 kingdoms about heroes of the 3 warring states; Wei, Shu and Wu from AD 220-280. Man, it was no fun especially when you are under the hot sun. Hmm… have to stay positive and smile for the camera.

Then, we were brought to the Zhi Za Yu Yuan, a ceramic making teapot place. Another rip-off place. Tsk tsk tsk!!! Here, we are so called taught how teapots are being made by the special material called “Zisha” clay that can only be found in the mountain of Yixing in the whole China.

So after dinner, we headed to Wuxi, known as “Pottery Metropolis” of China where we rested for the night. And of course, we refused to stay in so early. So some of us headed to do some pork shopping in Carrefour. And I ended up with some pork, clothes, bag, sunglasses and a chu chu key chain for my phone. :D