As usual, morning call at 630am, lugguages put outside the room and breakfast at 715am, gather to 出发at 8am. Another half hr's bus ride to 无锡 灵山胜境。。。

It was a very big 的 大佛。。。有佛足坛 (Buddha's pair of footprints which is very big) , 有很大的 天下第一掌 (Buddha's palm which is equivalent to 3 storey high building, weighing 13tons), 阿育王柱 Pillar of Asoka & Laughing Buddha with alot of children.

The whole place was so sacred. Got the big thing, which i dunnoe wat is it called, but was a metal clone, which u can turn for good luck with scripts written on it. Is it 经筒?? They had 15 in a row, shld be got 10 sets to make it a circle. We 转转经筒 for good luck. The Big Budhha which stands on top of the hill, was abt 700 tons (if i din remember wrongly). Was so huge. Very magnificent.
(Found tis article online, can refer to the fotos, then u noe wat i meant, cos for now i cant seems to load my fotos in the blog yet... http://www.worldisround.com/articles/190546/index.html )

Actuali wanted to climb till the feet of the Big Buddha, but because of time limitation, we could only take some fotos at the foot of the hill, whuch leads the the Big Buddha. Such a waste!! One more thing worth to mention is that, we haf to pay to go inside. And i heard from our tour guide, most temples in China, they need to pay to go in and pray. Weird rite? Like tat still got alot of ppl go in and pray!

After wandering there for abt 1hr, then we proceeded our journey to 无锡市 聚宝苑珍珠厂 to 'see' 珍珠。。 Again, we were physchoed to buy the pearls. They opened a cloned pearl 淡水珍珠for us to see, seems real. But the displays looks fake. Anyway, bought some braclets for my cousins and the rest... Again stayed in the shop for another almost 2hrs, before we went for lunch.

After lunch, again we bid goodbye to the 无锡地陪，小万。。。Then we proceeded our journey to 杭州。。。Another 3hrs bus ride again. So sleep again on bus.

Reached 杭州 的 万松书院 at 5pm. The place was actuali closed for the day, but our tour guide 小董 said he had called and made arrangement for them to wait for us. So the whole place was 没有人 except our group. In a way, was good cos there is nobody to 'fight' with us to take foto...haha... Inside 万松书院, they haf a half moon pond, in a shaped of a semi-circle with some wordings, and an ancient hall, which they put the miniatures curvings of the lives of the ancient ppl. Got alot of stone sculptures of the ancient historical ppl, which i oso dunnoe who are they, but i tink one of them is 梁山伯 的 teacher. Got a Confucius temple inside, which ppl can pray to. But they closed the templs doors right after we came out, guess the uncles are wating to knock off liao.. haha...

万松书院 是 梁山伯 和 祝英台 的学校。。。 小董说梁山伯 和 祝英台 had a age difference of 80yrs, wer 祝英台 is older than 梁山伯 by 8o yrs. So the story is fictional. haha... 杭州 got alot of stories, including 梁山伯 和 祝英台, still got 白蛇传。。。

After visiting the school, we went to the opposite of 杭州西湖 的 restaurant haf our dinner. After dinner at abt 7pm, we went to 东坡金海岸大舞台 watched 西湖之夜大型歌舞表演 which was abt 1.5hrs. The tickets was abt RMB 150 per pax. But was a nice show, which was divided into 5 parts.

1st part is abt war & martial arts. 2nd part is 杂技 acrobats. 3rd part is abt story of 梁祝. 4th part is abt Buddha and GuanYin. The last part is on 少林寺武功, with real 小和尚s。。。Worth the $$, interesting. The acrobats are the ones we normally we saw on TV programmes, this time we could see it real and live! haha... The ppl are jus so young and reali very 厉害。。。 The 观音 part still got the 千手观音. Though they are not the real group of ppl, but they are still up to the standard. Very good.

After the show, we went back to hotel at 930pm.