Our Room at the Mingtown Hangzhou International Youth Hostel

I have been travelling for more than two weeks and I have finally come to my last city in China before I leave. The city of Hangzhou is famous in China for its lake and the scenery around it. For me, it was just the place where the airport was. I hardly know anything about this city aside from its famous lake. My arrival in Hangzhou wasn’t as impressive as arriving in Shanghai. Hangzhou is also a thoroughly modern city but their train station is still lightyears away from the ultra-modern complex of Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station. It seems that they have forgotten to modernize this bit of the city.
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