Hangzhou is known for its silk and idealized West Lake.

A beautiful pagoda in the mist

Racing team

Many Shanghaiese have vacation homes at West Lake.

Goldfish pond in the gardens

We walked around the lake after the cruise.

Site of Hangzhou's most revered temple, Lingyin.

In the 4th century an Indian Buddhist noted that the rocks here resembled a holy peak in India and suggested that they were "the Peaks that were Flown from Afar."

Vendors sold corn on the cob on a stick.

This little girl was learning how to offer a prayer to the Buddha.