Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Nihao from Shanghai 01:52 Welcome to the Watertown Zhujiajiao 04:20 Perfect Souvenir Shopping Market Town 04:47 Venice of Shanghai 05:51 Boat Ride through the Canals of Zhujiajiao 08:19 Walking the Streets of Ancient Watertown & Souvenir Shopping 11:54 Chinese Street Food 12:54 More Street Views of Zhujiajiao & More Street Food 16:20 Summary of our time in Zhujiajiao
@@our-travel-journal I suggest you visit nearby Suzhou and Hangzhou, which have a longer cultural history than Shanghai. Zhujiajiao is too small to have any fun. It's not worth wasting time.
Seeing our Sydneysiders visit China and breaking the media myth about China is great. Even greater is letting kids know from their naked eyes the world is not always like what the media says. Nice investment mum and dad.
@@ChunleiMuugii actually there are so many these kinds of videos on SNS. and they are not beautiful. I think Chinese people dont know whats the problem here
China is one of the countries that is modern and developed, yet still so enmeshed with its ancient culture. They have clothes, food, books, habits, traditions that are hundreds or thousands of years old that every Chinese person still practises till this day, the same way it was done when it first started thousands of years ago. Eg moon cake festival, dragon boat festival etc.
thanks for the relaxing video, I can see you guys are sitting around the round table and have lunch together! and everyone smile and seems happiness! love you guys!
Auf nach China und auch alte Viertel erkunden, die Botschaft lautet: nehmen sie ihre Familie und schauen sie sich selber an, was sie so sicher nicht erwarten können. ❤❤
Thanks for sharing! You chose a beautiful day to visit Watertown. It was nice to see your kids enjoying themselves. I'm sure they'll re-visit China when they're adults... maybe even learn Mandarin before they return. 🕊
Why do I feel my eldest daughter has grown taller? The German pork knuckle is very delicious. There is also a shop in Zhujiajiao where the pork knuckle tastes particularly good.
The water in the ancient town comes from Dianshan Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Shanghai. The scenery is beautiful. I often bike around the lake and go kayaking because my home in China is in Zhujiajiao.
@@our-travel-journal No, don’t buy anything in the tourist area, even if it’s close to the freshwater lake. The price difference between farmed and wild-caught fish can be up to five times, so you might think you’re getting wild fish, but it could actually be farmed. I wouldn’t recommend it. But there are some local farmhouses around Dianshan Lake where you can get the freshest catch straight from the lake, and it’s much cheaper than in the ancient town.
@@our-travel-journal hahaha 🤣 yes we are here in Malaysia and going to Hua Hin Thailand then we’ll be back here to Malaysia in December! Hope you guys are enjoying China 🇨🇳 be safe!
Thousands of ancient villages popping up all over China Was in Yantai a few weeks ago on business and a local took me to one of At the front it said 1857 my friend explained to me that the site where it was built is reclaimed land from the sea and there had never been a village on this site He further explained they were building them to pacify the locals
We know nothing about Bollywood and you are right when you mean that the Republic of India has not been there that long at all but the civilisation & culture has been developing for thousands of years already! Have you ever visited India?🇮🇳
@@our-travel-journal Yes, twice to India, most up in the North and Mumbai areas. History of India is like the Bible, there are a lot stories, myth, assuming and some recorded facts. India lost a lot of historical facts under the near 200 years of the British Empire. Even today, India still have many disputable claims on many issues. From my experience there. I think Indians are too judgemental and too nationalist.
Everyone!! Don't be fooled!! What's China good at? Replicate, duplicate right? Like a fool, I read trip adviser and thought to myself, how did I miss this "awesome" village when I was just in Shanghai 2 years ago. I did went to Tongli Watertown ( Also in Suzhou) and that was brilliant; Zhujiajiao.. Pls, it's a duplicate on a bigger scale to trick more foreigners.
Oh shut up!!! Just stay in your cave where you can grumble all you want!!! I wonder why you even bother to visit China or perhaps you were dreaming that you were in China with your negative attitude!
So what ? We don't care about what you are saying , this is not 1840 , not 1940，this is 2024. Some of them were humanmade of course , Chinese would go , if you like it , like it , if you don't like it , we don't care. I don't know where you come from , we already see what it is in British , are you in Europe ? or western countries ? Wish you "well" in the future.
Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Nihao from Shanghai
01:52 Welcome to the Watertown Zhujiajiao
04:20 Perfect Souvenir Shopping Market Town
04:47 Venice of Shanghai
05:51 Boat Ride through the Canals of Zhujiajiao
08:19 Walking the Streets of Ancient Watertown & Souvenir Shopping
11:54 Chinese Street Food
12:54 More Street Views of Zhujiajiao & More Street Food
16:20 Summary of our time in Zhujiajiao
@@our-travel-journal I suggest you visit nearby Suzhou and Hangzhou, which have a longer cultural history than Shanghai. Zhujiajiao is too small to have any fun. It's not worth wasting time.
that's true...
If you think this place is good, wait until you see Wuzhen, not far from Shanghai, highly recommended. You will be blown away!
@@wade04035017good to know
Seeing our Sydneysiders visit China and breaking the media myth about China is great. Even greater is letting kids know from their naked eyes the world is not always like what the media says. Nice investment mum and dad.
China is so beautiful, you will never see China like this from the media
@@ChunleiMuugii actually there are so many these kinds of videos on SNS. and they are not beautiful. I think Chinese people dont know whats the problem here
@@unka2007So what‘s the problem in China?
@@ChunleiMuugii 因为西方特别是美国恨我们，不过无所谓了，反正他们只会黑我们，习惯了🤣
Beautiful China! The corporate media will never show.
朱家角算是个迷你的水乡，江南最大最美的水乡是乌镇，在浙江 嘉兴，离上海不远。
China is the safest country in world, u may bring ur family members there like me
China is one of the countries that is modern and developed, yet still so enmeshed with its ancient culture. They have clothes, food, books, habits, traditions that are hundreds or thousands of years old that every Chinese person still practises till this day, the same way it was done when it first started thousands of years ago. Eg moon cake festival, dragon boat festival etc.
...and here they presented the bridge, the unique way of rowing the boat, and the fascinating HanFu dresses.
Wish you have good trips❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you ☺️
Es ist so ruhig und friedlich ❤
In China findet man alles, Moderne und Tradition
thanks for the relaxing video, I can see you guys are sitting around the round table and have lunch together! and everyone smile and seems happiness! love you guys!
Yes we are, glad you enjoyed watching 🙌
Looks cleaner and safer than ANY city in the US!
Fantastic parents and lucky children!
China is progressive cultured imbibed with wisdom embracing both modern and ancient safe friendly A great place to be.
Wow beautiful. Lijiang and Dali in Yunnan Province blew me away when I visited last year
Nice video! Thank you for sharing... Keep it up 💪
Thank you! 🙌
Does anybody notice the way they row the boat? A very unique way straight from the history book.
Auf nach China und auch alte Viertel erkunden, die Botschaft lautet: nehmen sie ihre Familie und schauen sie sich selber an, was sie so sicher nicht erwarten können. ❤❤
Such an amazing video! I hope you and your family enjoy your stay in Shanghai ❤
Thank you so much!!😊
The old parts are so cool!
Very clean and very green. Good for 👍🏻foreigners sight seeing.❤
We agree 👍🏻
lovely family,welcome China
Thank you! 🥰
Chinese gondola, nice !
Wowwww i wanna visit china..
You should!
Thanks for sharing! You chose a beautiful day to visit Watertown. It was nice to see your kids enjoying themselves. I'm sure they'll re-visit China when they're adults... maybe even learn Mandarin before they return. 🕊
We‘d all love to return and bring a bit more of Mandarin language skills with us 😆❤️
Beautiful family and cute kids, the video content is very good and fun as always, do they play Black myth WuKong already by the way 😄?
No, we still try to keep them away from gaming as much as possible. So far they are only allowed to play/build a bit on Minecraft. 🎮
Great fun video, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching ❤️
Wu Zhen has the feel of an old ancient China's water town. It's absolutely beautiful.
We believe you! It’s further away from Shanghai though.😊
Bravo!
Smart parents educate their kids by travelling.
You did an amazing job for your vlog
Thank you so much!!☺️
I love the little youtubers , this is a good experience for them to be yourtubers.
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I would like to recommend Suzhou to you to visit. It is a beautiful small city right next to Shanghai.
Lovely family trip play & learn for kids❤
Yes, thank you ☺️
Welcome to China🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊
Thank you 😊
I enjoyed the way you commented and your commentary style along the way.
Zhujiajiao is Super Beautiful at the night time...... Super Super beautiful ~~~
Why do I feel my eldest daughter has grown taller?
The German pork knuckle is very delicious. There is also a shop in Zhujiajiao where the pork knuckle tastes particularly good.
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No doubt the most attractive country in the world!
Yes, it really fascinates us, too.
I enjoyed your travel journaling so I subscribed. Jia you.
🥰 thank you 🙏
I love China! ❤❤❤
The water in the ancient town comes from Dianshan Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Shanghai. The scenery is beautiful. I often bike around the lake and go kayaking because my home in China is in Zhujiajiao.
Really? That’s so cool! ❤
We were wondering and maybe you know: there are quite a few restaurants selling turtle soup, are they from the lake?🐢🤷♀️
@@our-travel-journal No, don’t buy anything in the tourist area, even if it’s close to the freshwater lake. The price difference between farmed and wild-caught fish can be up to five times, so you might think you’re getting wild fish, but it could actually be farmed. I wouldn’t recommend it. But there are some local farmhouses around Dianshan Lake where you can get the freshest catch straight from the lake, and it’s much cheaper than in the ancient town.
@@our-travel-journal I really wish I were there so I could find you and take you to enjoy some delicious food.😀😀😀
Huaihai Rd and Suzhou Creek both are my favor SH city walk choice, hope your family did not miss them
Let‘s find out in our next video 😉
Wuzhen is a even better water town in that area
nice..
Thanks
China looks amazing have a great time there guys ❤
Thank you! We heard you guys were in Malaysia!? That’s not t h a t far away 😉😅
@@our-travel-journal hahaha 🤣 yes we are here in Malaysia and going to Hua Hin Thailand then we’ll be back here to Malaysia in December!
Hope you guys are enjoying China 🇨🇳 be safe!
I suggest you go to Xitang old town，Or the old town of Anchang in Shaoxing，Better than Zhujiajiao.
Most of the ancient towns in China is alive and liveable, practically still alive kicking. Not like others.😊only a show to the tourist.😅
Your videos make me feel very relaxed and happy~
Yay, thank you! 😊
7:21 I had to say China have is own style.
The water looks very clean though there are so many residents and commercial activities.
🎉🎉🎉
The weather seems so nice. Not too warm? When was this video taken?
It was very warm even though it has been a while ago, the video was taken 😉
Delicious food, beautiful scenery, fantastic
Thanks for visiting 😊
There are 663 cities in China. There are still many places you haven't visited, and many cities are worth traveling to.
For sure!!!🙌
Thousands of ancient villages popping up all over China
Was in Yantai a few weeks ago on business and a local took me to one of
At the front it said 1857 my friend explained to me that the site where it was built is reclaimed land from the sea and there had never been a village on this site
He further explained they were building them to pacify the locals
😮
你们拍的视频真好看
Thank you 😊
Hihi
Maybe can try out Dun huang in Gansu.
Really nice desert place esp at night.
Really recommend😊
Take care and enjoy
Great suggestion! That’s in the desert, isn’t it?
@@our-travel-journal
Yes. You can check it out
Crescent moon lake / singing sand duke.
Is very pretty at night😂
May I suggest you visit multi cultural Malaysia too, especially Penang and Malacca.
One day we will 🤗
my favorite restaurant is laojishi(老吉士）in tianping road,u should try it,don’t forget booking
the roast chicken is famous, it's my favorate.
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funny sharing
good
boys look like good swimmers, no life jacket needed 😅
That‘s what we thought 😂
When Come to jinshan of shanghai?
😮 I had to look up Jinshan. Can you just walk there at the beach or is it actually possible to go swimming, too?
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👍👍👍
Looks like you got Shortie with you 😂. Dr Jones.
Wonder who you are referring to, Emmet or Malik?😅
I followed because you are a German family! Ich liebe Deutschland!
😅 Have you ever been to Germany? What city or area do you like most?
@@our-travel-journal I lived in Berlin for 1.5 years. It’s my favorite. I loved the parks and laid back atmosphere.
🥰 Berlin has some really nice parks and you‘re right, we also feel the laid back atmosphere whenever we visit friends & family there.
🎉
I've never seen a local bought an insect snack. I ask to vendor that they selling it for foreign tourist, really weird huh.
😂 really? Well, we neither saw anybody eat it nor wanted to try it for ourselves 🤭
@@our-travel-journal Nobody in China eats that stuff. Those are for tourists' wallets.
Good to know 😀
Visit at night it's magic
Guang Zhou(not zhoo)
Yeah, so I learned in the meantime 🙈, sorry!
❤😂🎉❤😂🎉
欢迎来到中国❤
Thank you 😊
SuZhou, HangZhou would've been better choices
Good to know, thank you 🙏
German?!
Ja 🇩🇪
Zhujiajiao should be pronounced “Zhu - Jia - jiao”,These three words
👍🏻 good to know
😂😂
Almost as beautiful as India,but it is very clean place.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅😅Indians like dreaming.
I wonder whether there’s an Indian speaking? 😄
4.000 years old town in India? India wasn't even born yet!
Another Bollywood story! 😂
We know nothing about Bollywood and you are right when you mean that the Republic of India has not been there that long at all but the civilisation & culture has been developing for thousands of years already!
Have you ever visited India?🇮🇳
@@our-travel-journal Yes, twice to India, most up in the North and Mumbai areas. History of India is like the Bible, there are a lot stories, myth, assuming and some recorded facts. India lost a lot of historical facts under the near 200 years of the British Empire. Even today, India still have many disputable claims on many issues. From my experience there. I think Indians are too judgemental and too nationalist.
Its a waste in life not to see China
Everyone!! Don't be fooled!! What's China good at? Replicate, duplicate right? Like a fool, I read trip adviser and thought to myself, how did I miss this "awesome" village when I was just in Shanghai 2 years ago. I did went to Tongli Watertown ( Also in Suzhou) and that was brilliant; Zhujiajiao.. Pls, it's a duplicate on a bigger scale to trick more foreigners.
Oh shut up!!! Just stay in your cave where you can grumble all you want!!! I wonder why you even bother to visit China or perhaps you were dreaming that you were in China with your negative attitude!
So what ? We don't care about what you are saying , this is not 1840 , not 1940，this is 2024. Some of them were humanmade of course , Chinese would go , if you like it , like it , if you don't like it , we don't care. I don't know where you come from , we already see what it is in British , are you in Europe ? or western countries ? Wish you "well" in the future.
Then it’s a beautiful trick for sure 😉
生活在德国的中东难民进入了中国
Sounds a little bit like an insult!? 🤔
Yes, that is insult. We can always see such losers on the Net anyway.
你们这种人，人家招你惹你了，真是闲的蛋疼
煞笔
Well, we don’t know who or what is meant with „Middle Eastern refugees“ but wonder whether that’s considered something good or bad and why?🤷♀️
I don't go to big town or city , rural area more discovery, more surprising.👍🫰🫰👍👍🫰🫰🌹🌹🌹🤣🤣🤣💖💖
You are right! We also feel like we want to explore more of the natural beauty and rural areas, too, next time!
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