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DAY 04 SHANGHAI/HANGZHOU/SHANGHAI Meals included: Lunch At approximately 7:15 AM be ready in the lobby of the Peninsula hotel in preparation for your transfer to the Shanghai train station. Your guide will see you off at the train station. 9:00 AM Depart Shanghai via high-speed train (Train # G 7305) to Hangzhou. Total travel time: 51 minutes. First Class seating. Train times are only an approximation. Exact train details are available 20 days prior to travel. Hangzhou lies close to the mouth of the Qian Tan River at the western extremity of the huge estuary of the Gulf of Hangzhou. Two thousand years ago there was nothing here but a sandbar built up by the silt carried downstream by the river. It collected between two fingers of land that jutted into the estuary. The inhabitants built a dike to reinforce the bar, and thereby created what is present-day Xi Hu, or West Lake, perhaps the most famous lake in China. 9:51 AM Arrive Hangzhou. You will be met outside the train station by your local guide and escorted to a waiting vehicle.