Suzhou, China: City Of Canals

"For our last full day of our trip to china, we took the train tosuzhou, a nearby city, about 1 hour away by bullet train. one ofsuzhou's claims to fame is it's beautiful, ancient canal waterways.the city felt so much cooler than nanjing where the heat was juststifling. i'm guessing it must be because of the canals. the one thing i really had looked forward to doing here in suzhouwas taking a canal boat ride. in the end, it was the one thing wewound up not doing (but spent 4 hours trying to do) but on..."