Yesterday Matt went hiking with another teacher at the university who is from Hendersonville, Tennessee. While new to HDU, Andy taught in Hangzhou last year, and knew of a hike in one of the outlying tea villages near the West Lake. A twenty minute trip by city bus took us out of the city proper into a landscape of steep tea-covered hillsides and narrow, winding valleys with picturesque villages. The landscape reminded Andy and I of East Tennessee, while the cultivation of the steepest inclines reminded me of the vineyards of the Chianti region in Tuscany. I was awed by the thought that these very hills may have been used for tea cultivation for over one thousand years. I do not know of what these pictures will remind you, though I venture the photographs will not remind you of a greater metropolitan area!
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