Hangzhou West Lake

Hangzhou is well known for it's West Lake, a beautiful well kept lake with willows, pagodas, temples, benches, boats, etc. It is a favorite place for poets, philosophers, and scholars of ancient times spend and be inspired. One of the emporers was known to love the lake so much, he would come and visit several times (a rarity since most of the emperors tend to stay in the Forbidden City). We decided to take a boat ride across the lake and quite an interesting ride it was as the weather decided to rain on us!




We also visited a museum of herbal medicine which still has an existing herbal shop! It was quite interesting but kinda freaky some of the stuff they had on display.