Guangzhou, China Travel Blogs

Final Countdown
Feb 23, 2005 (2 photos)

... the train were living in HK or from China! I did meet a nice woman named Sarah who lived in China but worked for Merrill Lynch in HK and in Guangzhou she was really helpful and led me to the airport bus station, which I would not have found without her. ...

Fallen Goods--A Shopping Story
Feb 4, 2007

... are negotiable in China, so are the quality of manufacturing and veracity of labels. I bought some sweaters recently in Guangzhou, a shopaholic's worst fantasy. Worst, because every time you buy something in the warren of shops and stalls in any one of ...

In It To Win It
Feb 28, 2006 (1 photos)

In Guangzhou, China, a night in a five star hotel costs 50 US dollars. A shoeshine on the street is 25 cents; a short taxi ride that could get you killed is 5 bucks. The hotel laundered a shirt, socks and underwear for about 3 bucks - for a dollar more ...

Stranded...
Apr 29, 2006

... cop out top 5 in the circumstances - top 5 moments in Guangzhuo. By the following, you will realise that my time in Guangzhou was entirely mundane. 5. Hot showers - How good are hot showers? 4. Cold showers - you know what's better than hot showers ...

Turtle Soup, Dog Ribs and Mooncakes for Dessert
Oct 13, 2006 (3 photos)

We've heard it about six hundred times since moving here: The Chinese will eat anything that moves, except trucks, trains and bicycles. In our lives, Dan and I have eaten some interesting things: kangaroo, alligator, pig's blood and intestines, frogs, ...

The DNA of DWO
Feb 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... ones in the United States were escorted to the border by their countrymen for being lousy drivers. The good drivers stayed in China for the adreneline rush. This taxi driver should be working for NASCAR, his reflexes are a wonder. He reponds to the ...

Smooth Entrance to China
Mar 10, 2004

... distance bus would take us from one bus station in one city to another bus station in another city. Not so in China, as we found out when we made it to Guangzhou. Our bus, for instance, took us to a hotel (not even a bus station!) that was off the map of ...

Beer festival in Guangzhou?
Jul 5, 2008

... to have updated it for this year. To give you a flavour of the event, here was the announcement for last year: First Guangzhou Beer Festival to be held The 2005 Guangzhou Beer Festival will be held from July 9th to 17th in Tianhe Sports Stadium. ...

Will rising petrol prices curb China's car growth?
Jul 11, 2008

... for years. The government was forced to raise oil prices because of the soaring price of crude in the international market. China has grown into the world's second-largest auto market where private cars topped 38.85 million units as of June 2008, ...

Hunt your own panda
Oct 9, 2008

... where you hunt animals?? From China Daily: A special panda festival has kicked off in the Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. In addition to close contact with pandas, tourists can also take part in a series of ...

Worst city in the world?
Sep 21, 2008

... arrived at a huge construction site - that turned out to be the airport bus terminal next to the railway station. Guangzhou's railway station is notorious and used to be crowded with pickpockets and peasants who seemed to live there, awaiting cheap train ...

Flight discounts in free-fall in China?
Jul 6, 2008

... longer term. The second surprise factor is that projections earlier this year suggested the Beijing Olympics would galvanise China's travel and tourism industry - notably increasing the demand for, and, therefore, the pricing of, hotel rooms and ...

Emergency Detour!!! And Bye Bye China!!
Jun 16, 2005 (1 photos)

... pulled his blanket off - nothing. Anyway, suffice to say I got about 5 seconds sleep for the night. Guangzhou is a big city. The richest in China after Hong Kong and Shanghai. It's very modern with loads of elevated flyovers and all. It used to be ...

Why Chinese don't queue
Jul 11, 2008 (1 photos)

... photographer Wang Wenlan's lens. And naturally, nobody was happy or chatting with each other to amuse themselves. What a typical day in China's pre-reform consumer life! In contrast, as seen in the color photo taken at the Beijing Sam's Club, the rice ...

Grazing In Guangzhou..
Jan 5, 2007 (7 photos)

Greetings from Guangzhou. Well it's our first stop in mainland China and it's a fairly nice introduction we have to say. They say that Guangzhou at first glance is like an Asian L.A. There's kilometres and kilometres of freeways, flyovers, ...

Commercial terrorism in China
Nov 25, 2008

... Golden Eagle International CBD Center," a skyscraper that would soar 169 meters into the air, making it the tallest building in western China.The "Golden Eagle" building turned out to be a scam masterminded by Wang Xiniu, known at the time as Zheng Ze, the ...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Dec 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... into China was an interesting experience. We read in the LP guide that you could get bus tickets all the way through to Guangzhou (previously called Canton) at the Kee Kwan Motor Road Bus Co. We packed up our stuff and departed our very tired room in ...

Gone to Guangzhou
Dec 21, 2007 (23 photos)

... Friday morning Hong Kong time and I am getting ready to head out for the day on a trip to Guangzhou & Shenzhen, in the Guangdong province of China. Located at the Northern end of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou is also known by the West as Canton and ...

Don't go to Guangzhou
Jul 25, 2005 (2 photos)

... , If I ate it daily, The I'd skip around gaily Its the capital of Canton, That you can bet on, It's certainally not a hit, In fact it's a bit sht. Don't go to Guangzhou, I'm telling you again bro, Head to Hong Kong, It'd make a better song.

Old Canton
Sep 9, 2009

Get off plane and catch bus to Macau border.

Guangzhou
Feb 10, 2008 (3 photos)

We arrived into Guangzhou, a pretty and modern town, with all the usual Chinese sights, sounds and neon lights in the early evening. We sailed accross the river outside our hostel to Shamian Island  to treat ourselves to a meal from 'Lucy's& ...

Guangzhou, Guangdong
Feb 18, 2008 (4 photos)

Guangzhou

Changing Standards
Oct 5, 2008 (6 photos)

... had visited on our first visit. Who would've thought that the sky could be so clear in this part of China? With a typhoon approaching things were getting windier so the pollution was not lingering but instead being blow inland. The relatively clean ...

quick stop-over
Feb 3, 2007

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Industrial Guangzhou
Jan 10, 2007

Here for a night

Panyu Safari Park Panda & International Circus
Apr 10, 2008 (33 photos)

Panyu Safari Park Panda & International Circus

Arrival in Guangzhou...
Mar 30, 2007

I'm cheating slightly and writing this the following day, but I arrived in China with Gem yesterday afternoon on the train from Hong Kong (i was going to be clever and write the name of the train station, but i can't remember it off the top of my head and ...

Jul 28, 2009 (19 photos)

in transit!
Jul 5, 2009

... finished it was time to catch the bus. We travelled through HK, crossed a bridge and found our selves in Shenzhen (mainland China)...where we hopped off the bus and went through customs...someone pointed a gun at our heads (to check our temperature) which ...

Air transit at Guangzhou Baiyun Intern'l Airport
Aug 18, 2007

We will fly to Xian from here to start the Silk Road Expedition...