The Trip to Zhujiajiao

Some of us ventured outside of Shanghai for the first time since our arrival in China last week.  Sunday, we took a 45 minute bus trip west of Shanghai to a small river village called Zhujiajiao.  Our tour guide said it was about 60 km from Shanghai.  For the first time, many of us saw what rural China was like.  Zhoujiajiao is definitely not a big city like Shanghai.  At the same time, it was quite touristy as hundreds of visitors wandered through the narrow streets, little shops and walked on the bridges over the river and canals.  We all rode in Chinese boats on the canals and a few of us even ate eel during our lunch there.