WHERE IN CHINA? SUZHOU

The chinese plant of the company I work with is in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, just 100 km west of Shanghai.

It's a well developed city, much better than the average chinese city. The downtown is well kept, with nice roads and streets, and quite a lot interesting places, mostly architectural gardens. The city has some canals, but surely doesn't match Venice!

Also the industrial area east of Suzhou (named S.I.P., Suzhou Industrial park) is very nice, with large roads, greenery, modern buildings.

However, 20-story apartment buildings compounds are growing like mushrooms. They should slow down this construction frenzy.

This time in Suzhou I visited the taoist temple in downtown (Xuan Miao Temple) and one of the nice gardens, Lion Grove Garden.

During my stay, it also happened to snow, about 10 cm, not so common in Suzhou; the weather has always been quite cold, around and below 0 °C.

 While there, I tried some different restaurants, italian, indian, german; chinese only once, for the company dinner before Spring Festival (Chinese New Year). It's that actually I don't like chinese cuisine that much ...