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Moving on to another city - Hangzhou

Posted by nobdynowhr | 20th December 2008

Leaving behind the cosmopolitan city, we set sail to a less chaotic one.
The bund
On the outskirts of metropolitan Shanghai, the bus hurried past endless farmland. Poverty and farming didn't sit quite well together here; a typical image of the rural areas of China.
Some of the farmers' houses were probably 6 storeys tall. These were the well-to-do farmers who dwelled comfortably at the fringe of a world city. They settled here by choice to 'live in a house, a very big house in the country'.

The predominantly subsistence farming lay in the opposite end (from city) of the commercial farms (Hong Qiao) in Pudong (East of Huang

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