Saturday we went to Walmart to get some more things for the apartment, and some groceries. We ate dinner at the food court.
Sunday, we traveled to the old section of Suzhou, where we visited this Taoist temple, the Xuanmiao Temple. It is on Guan Qian Street, which is a major shopping center, and also a major tourist trap. They charge really high prices for really crappy goods. You can haggle though, but most tourists will pay the 120 RMB for an item when you can normally easily haggle them down to as low as 10-20 RMB.
Afterwards we walked through the streets until we got to the Humble Administrators Garden, one of the four most famous gardens in Suzhou. It was, well, beautiful. It was also one of the first time since I got here that it didn't smell even remotely of smog.
There were many pagodas situated around the garden.
In one of them there were many examples of this, Suzhou Embroidery. It has been around for 1000 years and this picture hardly does it justice.
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