The Venice of China

7/22/2013 - Suzhou, China

Suzhou is famous for its gardens and canals. It's the Venice of China. We walked through the gardens, took a boat down the river, and had a beer on the riverwalk. It was all very peaceful.

When I heard there was a "Venice of China," it seemed like everything in the Western world has a Chinese equivalent. It's huge! I guessed that for every city I could name in Europe, there was a more populous city in China. I would have thought they'd have little character to them, but I was proven wrong, at least in the cases of Xi'an and Suzhou.

Pictured: View from our boat in Suzhou