China: Water Village

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Ancient Chinese water village Zhouzhuang has become a toursit attraction fairly recently, after a famous Chinese artist made a painting of one of its charming stone bridges. Now it is full of Chinese style gondolas, complete with romantic singers. Main canal has a row of small restaurants that provide you with a fishing poll, so you can catch your own lunch in the murky waters. All tourists arelocal here and there are no English menus. One can see toursit money at work on outskirts of this village (by Chinese standards) where construciton of a modern tech college and a hospital are almost complete




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