Thursday, November 20, 2008

Ningbo Trip Nov 19-20





























Class trip to Ningbo














Xikou city in Ningbo is the old hometown of Jiang Jie shi (Chiang Kai-Shek), the generalissimo of the Nationalist party from 1928 to 1948, opposite to Mao's communist party.












We went to see his old house, his family & relatives houses and we saw 'Mi Lo Da Fo' (The giant gold big Buddha in the picture. Mi Lo Fo in Chinese is the Buddha to come, 'the kindly one', who is a principal figure in all Buddhism)





We also crossed the World's Longest Sea Bridge in China - which connects Shanghai and Ningbo. The bridge runs 32.4 km (20.1 miles). It took more than 3 years to complete this bridge and it opened last year.





It was so cold on the first day......... on top of the mountain...but beautiful scenery of the moutains and the waterfall though.



The second day was quite warm... :) but I was so tired so no pictures today.

2 comments:

bobsblog said...

Beautiful pictures of your trip

Ippo456 said...

You're lucky you get to travel around.
Nice hat Hanwul!

ps: will you be vacationing this Christmas? Any chance you'll be stopping by in Singapore, HK, or Indo?