Ancient Shanghai Water Village

Our second day in Shanghai we had another tour booked to see an ancient water village and go on a boat down the river to see the water village. I won't lie it was a little scary on the boat. They weren't the best drivers for the tour. We almost crashed a few times but the experience was fun and make for a good story and video. Yes I caught our almost boat accident on video, well one of them. But it was very pretty and also pretty dirty, I mean really dirty. But we did have tons of fun on the tour.

Behind me is I believe a 500 year old bridge. We got to get off and walk across and the steps were almost nonexistent. Walking through the narrow side streets with the street vendors and the food, fabrics, and merchandise really made me feel like I was in a movie. You they always show those kind of dirty busy side streets with all the street vendors. That's exactly what we were walking down and I wont lie it wasn't my favorite experience but I am happy to say that we did it.

While in the ancient water village we got to go to an ancient Chinese garden. It was HUGE and it use to belong to one family. The tour guide said it use to be bigger with more plants and vegetables which I cant believe one family owned. It also made me think of the back garden in Mulan because they had all the flowers and a little mini temple at the top of a little hill where they would pray. I just wanted sing reflection walking around there.

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