A weekend trip to Shaoxing

In November 2006 we made a weekend trip with Sun-Ling's parents to Shaoxing, a town of about 300,000 southwest from Shanghai between Hangzhou and Ningbo. We stayed in a neat hotel, the LaoTaiMen, which used to be the home of some wealthy local.

Sun-Ling and I stayed in the 2nd floor room above the doorway to the left.


Shaoxing is best know as the home of Lu Xun, China's greatest modern writer. In the center of town one can visit the Lu Xun Family Home, the Lu Xun Museum, and the elementary school he attended. We did them all and they were actually quite interesting with good English signage.

Here's a photo of the 4 of us in front of the Lu Xun Museum.


Shaoxing is also famous for is rice wine. We tasted a little bit at dinner Saturday night. Not to my liking. Give me a cold beer!

We visited some of the other sites like Number Eight Bridge, East Lake, and the Mausoleum of Emperor Yu. However, the most interesting thing in Shaoxing in my opinion is that the local boatman row their boats with their feet which you can see in the video below.




Here's a photo in case you didn't watch the video.


We rode the express train both ways. Here's a video of us boarding the train for the return to Shanghai.




To see all the photos from Shaoxing, click here .