A shady avenue in Hangzhou - a photo on Flickriver

A shady avenue in Hangzhou

            Lunch done, we decided to walk to the Hangzhou Botanical Garden nearby. The way was on this delightfully shaded avenue. Suddenly the heat seemed to disappear thanks to the cool shade of the many trees in town. Famed for its natural scenery, Hangzhou and its West Lake have been immortalized by countless poets and artists. The city was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty from 1127 until the Mongol invasion of 1276. The city's population is estimated to have been as high as one million in those days, making it the largest city in the world at the time. Even Marco Polo claimed to have passed through, calling it beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world. Since June 2011, the West Lake Cultural Landscape has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. With the gradual silting up of its harbor, much of the city's trade and industry passed north to nearby Shanghai, but the city still has a bustling population of 8.7 million and ranks as one of China's most popular tourist attractions. Although we talk a lot about the West Lake in this caption, we don't get to it until much later. (Hangzhou, China, May 2017)
   

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Taken on: May 1, 2017

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Sets appears in: • Hangzhou, China, May 2017

Camera: Nikon D7000, f/4.2, 1/40 sec, 38mm (=57mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Aperture:	f/4.2
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	38mm (35mm equivalent: 57mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
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