A street that transports you back in time 🏮🏞️🇨🇳

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Shantang street (山糖街) is an old street with canals in Suzhou, China.

When I was in Shanghai, my friend and I took a day trip to Suzhou and she brought me to Shantang Street on a weekend. Oh myyy the street was so crowded, it was difficult to walk on the narrow streets… Therefore, we went into 江醪糟, the first dessert place we saw to escape from the crowd. I have to say the dessert is very refreshing and hydrating, it rejuvenated us for sure.

We then spent our evening just walking on the streets, exploring, taking pictures and eating random street food.

I definitely recommend visiting this famous old street if you are in Shanghai as it takes approx 30 minutes by train!!!

For visitors without a Mainland Chinese phone number, it would be difficult to get tickets online. Therefore, I do recommend going to the train station early and getting tickets at the ticket office.

Although Suzhou and Shanghai are both cities in Mainland, they do check your ID and passports so remember to bring them along with you.

There are security screenings at the train station so please arrive early for your train. Also note, in Mainland they do not use physical train tickets but they put a record in your IDs, so they screen your IDs at the gate again. Gates close 5 minutes before your train so do not be too last minute.

#境外遊 #shanghai #suzhou #oldstreet

Post by JOCELYNC | Aug 31, 2023