Day 3: Off to Wuxi

Our aggressive bus driver slapped himself with a nice "bak kua" ticket for illegally parking in front of the hotel in a no parking zone LOL. That is how we started our day. We are off on a journey to Wuxi city, population of about 4.5 million residents. This is also the place where Sunzi or more famously known as Suntzu wrote "the Art of War" when he helped the king in military affairs.

The entire complex is enormous forcing us to take the cabbie surprisingly in yellow colour too instead of walking. We arrived at Lingshan Brahma Palace as our first pit stop for the day. The grandeur structure is made partly from gold and is very majestic with intricate & mesmerizing craftsmanship. See for yourself, if you think Penang Keloksi is grand what till you see this :)

Sprawling colourful neon illuminating and bringing life to the dome.

I certainly won't miss this out. The hottest photographed chick we have seen to-date since arriving in China. (of course got better ones but no photos, no evidence)

This has got to be the biggest hand I have seen in my life. The bright surface is where people have been circling the hand for good fortunes, some form of blessing apparently. Beat that Hand of God Mr. Maradona! Yours too small la.

We made this discovery "Chinaman English". Can the bus run? Stable? If only I could sit using part of my butt only. Don't worry there is no way to go up, go where up ah? how to do that when bus is running le.

We then head over to Lake Taihu (2,250km²), the third largest freshwater lake in China and is about averagely 2 metres in depth. The lake was formed as a result of a meteor impact 70 million years ago. Here we are the shooting site of "Red Cliff".

Wuxi/TV Base is the first large scaled base for movie and TV shooting and for tourism built in China constructed back in 1987. It is given the title of "Oriental Hollywood". There was even an eye-catching performance of cavalry combat, a set from the 3 kingdom movie. Pure delight for action photography.

Had dinner somewhere in town but it wasn't really nice, no pics. Signing off at night in a shopping mall in Wuxi city before heading to a new hotel. You gotta love the Haiboa(s), they are everywhere!