Guangzhou
Travel Blogs from Guangzhou, China
Fallen Goods--A Shopping Story
... 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 ...
In It To Win It
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...
... 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
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
... The 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 ...
Smooth Entrance to China
... 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 ...
Final Countdown
... on 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 ...
Guangzhou
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 ...
Grazing In Guangzhou..
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, ...
Hunt your own panda
... 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 ...
Worst city in the world?
... which 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 ...
Emergency Detour!!! And Bye Bye China!!
... stage 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 ...
Gone to Guangzhou
... am 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 ...
Why Chinese don't queue
Five thousand years of evolution and all we get is this: Why Chinese don't queue: From China Daily One Chinese habit that foreigners complain about, I've heard, is their reluctance to line up in an orderly fashion. In shops as well as on ...
Commercial terrorism in China
... 's Hohhot, who blew up two large buildings because a Hong Kong businessman was going to build the tallest building in western China. Turned out he was a carpenter from another part of China, and he'd already defrauded other places. "An 8-story ...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
... ) 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 ...
Don't go to Guangzhou
... , 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 ...
Celebrity Status
... then boil your food in your metal bowl. It's certainly fun fishing around a boiling bowl with chopsticks, Rachel found it impossible! Guangzhou is a cleaner, more modern city that we both imagined. It's much quieter than the vibrant pace of Hong Kong. It ...
Nǐ hǎo China
... animal stomach - not sure which animal! We spent the day exploring Guangzhou, which seems to be much quieter than Hong Kong. The Guangzhou Metro is a lot more crowded than in Hong Kong. Everyone pushes to get on and off, they have little patience! The ...
The Guangzhou Breakdown
... while some who still had tight schedules got a little more agitated as there was still a chance for them. As we approached Guangzhou the conductor asked us to move up to the Dining car with our bags. She suddenly looked more official with her special hat ...
Changing Standards
... we 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 ...
Industrial Guangzhou
We left HK on Thursday evening after picking up our Vietnamese Visas. But we only got as far as Guangzhou...and industrial city north of Hong Kong - back on Mainland China. So needless to say there were more immigration stops and custom ...
Arrival in Guangzhou...
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 ...
in transit!
... 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) ...
New Years
... went to some good restaurants, got our nails done (even all the boys), and partied more. We're planning to go back in a month or so, maybe get some sightseeing in this time! I heard they have the biggest waterfall in China which i would like to ...
Air transit at Guangzhou Baiyun Intern'l Airport
We will fly to Xian from here to start the Silk Road ...


