Hangzhou Tidbts

We visited Hangzhou, China at the end of October and beginning of November.

First day haze

Hangzhou is a beautiful city, with the world famous west lake. However the haze concealed its beauty.

The following picture is a collage of 3 pairs of photos in two columns - left hand side are the original pictures, right hand side are photos with haze removed by AI.

First row is of Yue lake (a pond on the west side of west lake, considered to be the inner lake of the west lake), with a heron in the foreground.

Second row is of the southeast shoreline of Qian Tang river, featuring the U shaped Highrise - Gate of Hangzhou. 

The third row is the view of Qian Tang river from our hotel's restaurant.

As one can tell how beautiful the city would be if there were no haze. 

left original, right haze removed by chatGPT

Hangzhou Marathon

The next day Hangzhou's weather was good, and haze was mostly gone. We watched the race from roadside and an overpass over the racetrack.

Bird Watching

On the west side of west lake, there are quite a few lotus ponds with dikes, and arched bridges, centered around Quyuan Fenghe.

It was not the season. The lotus withered already. 

There are however, many birds, wagtail, egrets, herons - adults and juveniles, mandarin ducks, ducks.

Just for fun, I bought a whistle making bird songs - which attracted a few sparrows!

Zijin'gang Campus, Zhejiang University

This university campus is an elegant park, somewhat like Summer Palace in Beijing.