Worlds longest trans-oceanic bridge, nice Ningbo

Travelling over worlds longest trans-oceanic bridge to Ningbo, temple island Putuo Shan, garden city Hangzhou.

This trip was very good for getting my self-balance back, after some kind of everyday life and personal imbalance – feeling a breeze of freedom, spontaneity, adventure again… 🙂

Actually I already wanted to leave one week earlier, but the weather turned badly; so I decided to postpone it for one week. Lots of organizing the last days and then leaving with one of my Chinese friends from Shanghai early in the morning on 10th of April:

The worlds longest trans-oceanic bridge between Shanghai and Ningbo with a sea distance of 35 kilometers is just one year old – and it really feels strange to be that far outside in the ocean on a newly built bridge (one year old). And we also had smog / fog weather, so we didn’t see that far, just knew that we are since a long time on the sea – just don’t think too much at this time… 😉

Ningbo is a “small Chinese city” with about 1 Million inhabitants. If you compare it to other cities I have been in China – this Chinese saying really is true, you can walk around within the city center by foot, just a few people walking around, nice “moon-lake”, houses… And the city is proud to host China’s oldest library – one of the best gardens I have seen so far: stone and water arrangements made lovingly – I got trapped, just fell in love with them and really want to have something like this in my own garden later…

Then we relaxed on the beautiful Moon-Lake (as far as I remember it was man-made) and visited the other city-highlights (tower, old-town,…)

Next day we will continue our travel to Putuo Shan, the most famous Buddhism temple island in China…

General Infos about the Hangzhou-Bridge

Official Page for the Hangzhou-Bridge