At SuZhou, the first place we visited was a famous silk factory for SuZhou is world-famous for not its landscape but also its unique silk. They showed us a sample manufacturing chain of silk to understand how Suzhou silk are made, then they lead us to a showroom. Their silk really made a great enough impression for travellers to spend big money here. Yes, big money. The price of a world-class product!
Here is a performance. 4 women was stretching the silk out to create thin and large layers. Finally, they'd combine these layers to create a product, for example a drag or anything.
SuZhou is called " The Venice of Asia". I was extremely excited to be on a boat around the channels in an ancient area of SuZhou.
The ancient area is compared to Hoi An in Vietnam. But we all must say that their "ancient streets" are more beautiful, better invested and developed, and of course more attractive. Beside souvenir shops, they have bars and cafes, restaurant and small tea shop with traditional Chinese live music performance.
When we got back to our hotel. We decided to walk out more the find a place to sit, eat, drink and talk - like we often do in our beloved country. At this point of culture, Chinese people are no different from Vietnamese. They have a lot of small food-vendor and small food-shops late at night. I remember the temperature that night was lower than 10 celsius. We all grouped tightly in a very small red tent and enjoyed the night very well til after midnight.
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