Hangzhou is an ancient city with a glorious history. Marco Polo marveled at it, poets have praised the beauty of its West Lake for a thousand years. There are plenty of videos about the tourist attractions.
This one talks about the food market. Do you think the "bird on a stick" has a future at the MN State Fair? No? how about the "crab on a stick"? Looks good to me!
This video about is bike-share program gives a lot of information about the city itself.
The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
The Qiantang River is the site of the world's largest "tidal bore," a naturally occuring tidal sruge that causes a giant wave to travels up the river, against the direction of its flow. People gather to watch it, and one year some pro surfers were invited to surf the wave.
Surfing China's Qiantang River Tidal Bore, Hangzhou - September, 2008 from GSM International on Vimeo.
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