If you travel to Southern China, you will find many ancient towns.  In this trip, I visited Wuzhen, it's only 80km (50 miles) from hangzhou or Suzhou.  Wuzhen is well-known for its Water Town, which has long, long history around 6 millenium back and fertile land with its rice, fish, and milk.  Because of the so-called "Water Town" thing, many advertisements state that this is "Venice of Asia" and I have to disagree, haha.  First of all, there are many Water Town in China, such as Zhouzhang, Tongli, Luzhi in Jiangsu Province, Xitang in Zhejiang and some more, apparently all of them are called as "Venice of Asia".  Umm...these cities are fine, but oh well, I've been to Venice, and I can say Wuzhen is nothing like Venice.  I didn't say it's bad, but it's just a little far from it.  I didn't like how they advertise these kind of cities, because then, visitors who have been in Venice, or those from Western World would be like - "So, this is Venice of Asia?" Like, you know what I mean.  Though, it doesn't matter what I think, because the publicity works, so so many visitors go to these cities daily - mostly local visitors, though.

I'm just gonna be very brief about this.  Anyways, there are a lot things to see in this Water Town due to its long history, there are many museums, such as Ancient Bed Museum, Folk Customs Museum, Wine Distillery Workshop, Indigo Fabric Workshop, Wedding Museum, Heal Town Pharmacy, Water Market, Shadow Play, Chinese Foot Binding Culture Museum - those were the ones that I visited, but there are a lot more, please visit the official website for more info.

Wuzhen Water Town is so popular, there were around 30k visitors that day! So crowded! It's really crowded, because the road was narrow, the bridge was narrow, it wasn't crowded like Oxford Street, London's crowded, it's more like Tanah Abang or Thamrin City's crowded or like Mecca's crowded (no, this one I exaggerated, of course Mecca is 10 times more than that).  It was sunny, crowded, I felt so tired even though we didn't walk much, okay, honestly, unless it's for pilgrimage, I'm not a fan of crowded place.


We left this town to Shanghai after lunch, yay! :p :p :p

The only corner where not many people passed by :p

Wine Distillery Workshop (Chinese Wine from White Rice)

Old Distillery Machine

Indigo Fabric Museum