Somewhere in ... the most beautiful city in China, Hangzhou

... Or this is at least what the adverts in the TV are saying. To be honest, this regular sized town (6 million people!!) is situated by a beautiful lake surrounded by gardens, small hills and old temples. We are staying in the university campus, in a "hotel" :) for foreign students. So from the expats point of view we are seeing China from the eyes of university students, in particular from Colombia.

China is definitely a new adventure for us and a completely different world. We are still not sure what picture should we draw about this part of our trip. Now we are in a internet cafe, where 95% of all people here are playing on line games. To order food we draw cows and pigs to make sure that we are understood and lonely planet, the language part, is helping us to get a bus tickets to our next destination, when we point to single words - ticket, bus, two, friday...:) So far we are OK, not lost and had duck for lunch today:)

We imagined that China will be a bit crowded, but we haven't seen soo many people in the streets before. Of course we have arrived as well during the Golden week, which is the Chinese national holidays, so that the whole country was travelling... We understand as well why it is not soo easy to hire a car in China. We were always saying that Italian drivers are bad, but we hadn't been to China yet. There is a huge chaos on the streets, nobody respects any rules, pavements, zebra crossings or traffic lights, everybody is honking. Imagine pedestrians, car drivers, bicycles in the centre of a big city ans multiply the number at least 10 times and you got the picture. Don't worry we are getting used to it and holding hands when crossing like it is on the traffic signs in Europe:)

Tonight we are going to continue in our adventure and going out with the international students. We saw the most amazing scene yesterday, when students from Columbia and Congo spoke together in chinese, as it is their mutual language:) this is something I call - international.

We are going to stay in Hangzhou for another two nights and on Friday we will take a bus to Suzhou another small town with 5.7 million chinese! So cross fingers for us... we will let you know!