Feeling like a fish in the sea

Feeling like a fish in the sea

By Waqas Hassan

Life in Hangzhou is not less than a fantasy that I can relate my experience here with another fantasy story of clown fish marlin who realized importance of sea after traveling through whole sea, so it’s same for me that after visiting china particularly Hangzhou I realized the importance of this world and exactly feeling like a fish in the sea who cannot live happily out of the sea.

I believe that its life of Hangzhou who brought me to this point that I start relating life here with fantasy and Hangzhou gave me certain reasons for that which I can describe here. For example the magical view of west lake in the evening which gave you imagination of heaven and calmness and I believe that’s the reasons I saw many couples and families were sitting on the bank of west lake in the evening and getting natural therapeutic of their souls through the beauty of sunset view over the lake and mountains.

Through my observation of West Lake in the evening, I can say that Hangzhou is the first city who is presenting culture and tradition along new technologies and styles, the traditional music with fountains and lights dance, old scripts with new statues and flute music with dinner in traditional boats can describe this fact pretty well, a person can easily fell in love at first sight with the evening magic of West Lake.

Another beautiful aspect of Hangzhou evening that it provide you chances to meet the world, as we know Hangzhou is also economic hub and best tourist place in the province or maybe in whole china so here we can meet many foreigners and can taste food from different countries, let me tell you about this fact that if you walk through the bank of west lake in the evening so you can easily find many good places where you can listen best live music, can meet people from different countries and can taste the world food and also Chinese traditional cuisine as well.

The dragon is symbol of old china which they preserve proudly till date and will continue further as well and that’s the reason you can find this symbol everywhere, the dragon ships are also amazing because of traditional wood work on it and astonishing fusion of colors and lights make it more worthy. Yesterday we met an Italian tourist couple and got chance to having dinner in dragon ship, maybe I cannot express their impression or even my feelings at that time when we were at the center of the lake and on the right side we can see the shining and colorful lights on mountains while on the other side a full bright city with big screens and lights and listing traditional flute music and eating Chinese traditional foods with chopsticks, it was incredible jumble of tradition and modernization ever I have in my life.

We realized last night that for us ecstasy is not ending in Hangzhou when after dragon ship we reached to another beautiful spot in Nanshan road the bar number 7899 which my friend Lucero will never forget because he got best German bear from there and experience of playing billiard with Australian old guys who were professionals and generosity of people there astonished us in all behaviors.

Although we found taxi is cheaper in Hangzhou and easy to get but our pleasure was at crest yesterday that we walked through all the way of Westlake for going and coming back and we believe that we walked more than 15 KM which is not normal for us but those scenes of heaven gave us kind of drug that we love to walk there, I personally believe that we did not visit even 10% of Hangzhou and reached to ecstasy what will happen to us when we going to discover more in this city and that’s why I describe my feelings in this way (feeling like a fish in the sea).