Yuexiu Park (Yuexiu Gongyuan) Guangzhou

June 22-26, 2012
Hong Kong--> Guangzhou

Guangzhou is not HongKong, but a younger cousin of hers. On the train I passed by Shenzhen, one of the most successful and special economic zones in China, and about an hour interval between Shenzhen and Guangzhou were flooded, jungle like regions with construction cranes tirelessly …

I flew from Canada (where I was born) with China Southern Airlines and departed from
Vancouver without any Visa.
The China Southern staff in YVR queried about my stay in Guangzhou and did I have a visa to
remain in China. This made we worry a bit as I wanted to get back home to Australia and
did not relish changing my travel plans …

... a couple of days and simply walked the streets down to Shamian Island (old colonial and trading centre) and spent a day in the Yuexiu Park which at 92 acres is no slouch in the size department. It's a great park with tons of temples, monuments, a ...

... far from the emperors tomb is Yuexiu park, a real oddity. Theme park, historical site and relaxing retreat somehow Yuexiu park is a strange combination of all 3. Ultra touristy, at least with the locals (Having not seen a single ...

... see GREEN!  Green grass, trees, flowers...everything was green.    spent probably a day total just walking around Yuexiu Park which is the biggest park in Guangzhou just so we could soak up all the green-ness around us.  Being a farm girl it is ...

... headed out the door to catch bus 58A into town. We were on the bus by 12:25 and off, down by the China Hotel, near Yuexiu Park, just after 1:00 p.m. We caught the subway to go over to Shamian Island but at the Gongyuanqian station we mistakenly took an ...

... city – going to a few shopping centres, pedestrian streets and parks.  One park that we went to was Yuexiu park which is the largest urban park in China.  It was a pleasant walk around the big park, but it would have been nicer if it was ...

... noisy, busy and traffic congested character. On my first day, I experienced the western part of GZ by walking around the quite nice Yuexiu park with its Zhenhai Tower and Five Rams Statue as major sights, then paid a visit to the must-see mausoleum of ...

... the Sun Yet San metro station.  I then past it several times as I thought the stairs were actually leading up and into Yuexiu Park which I visited during the first few days of being here.   It wasn't until a boy aged around eight came ...

... Gardens of Guangzhou City.   THE ORCHARD GARDEN   Situated on Jiefeng Road across from the lovely Yuexiu Park can be found the Guangzhou Orchard Garden.  Originally a miniature garden, over the years it has developed into a small park ...

... nbsp; We kept our wits about us as we would in any city and enjoyed our short stay.  Yuexiu Park was nice and the Guangzhou Museum housed in the fourteenth-century Zhoulai Tower was informative.  I especially liked the floor on ...

... to another place. (By that time it was lunch time.) Dylan: Today we went to the biggest park in Canton, called Yuexiu Park. There we saw the statue of The Five Rams, which is a symbol of the city; the foundation of Canton goes back to the time ...