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Top Hotels in Shantou
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Regency Hotel Shantou
188 reviews -
Golden Gulf Hotel Shantou
145 reviews
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Meritus Shantou China
112 reviews
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Long Hu Hotel Shantou
35 reviews -
Shantou International Hotel
68 reviews
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Garden Hotel Shantou
43 reviews
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Civil Aviation Hotel Shantou
15 reviews
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Jiahe Haijing Hotel Shantou
22 reviews
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Shantou Overseas Chinese Hotel
17 reviews
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Golden Sea Gull Hotel Shantou
8 reviews
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Jin Hu Mansion Shantou
5 reviews
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Chang Xun Hotel Shantou
2 reviews -
Happy Hotel Shantou
96 reviews
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Mingdu Hotel Shantou
5 reviews
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Shantou Drawn Work Mansion
10 reviews
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Shantou Yuedong Hotel
21 reviews
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Jinshan Hotel Shantou
96 reviews
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Chaoyang Hotel Shantou
1 review
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Nanhai Hotel Shantou
8 reviews
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Xiashan Hotel Shantou
2 reviews
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Tuo Dao Hotel Shantou
14 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Shantou, China
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A Journey East--In Search of the Hakka
This is a top pick! ... decision to come with us, and we set off the next morning. We stayed in a cheap hotel by the bus station in Shantou, formerly Swatow, and took day trips around in search of these Hakka fortresses. On the second day we were lucky. *** We ...
I'm alive!
... policemen trying to make me move because they're trying to film a documentry or somthing. Luckily I had enough money to ring Maggie in Shantou (6 hours away) and she has a friend in Guanzo, so I rang him and he told me to get a taxi to ring him to ...
Arnan Tours
... still really good fun and I got to see some relaxed places through new eyes. Chaozhou and Shantou were in many ways what I'd expected old and new China to look like before I knew otherwise, industriously busy, tatty, friendly places heaving with street ...
survival
Today I went to maggies school and her students asked me questions, questions such as "Do you like Shantou girls?" or " what exactly is your relationship with maggie" rasing eyebrows. Good times. Later that day we ate another amazing lunch with some ...
day 2
... asking them if they speak cantonese since i've been rejected so many times. but i'm loving the feel of shantou. it's a small city that feels like a mixture of the china i know and the southeast asia i hear so much about. last night, we went to a ...
Ridiculously Delicious Women & Seafood
This is a top pick! ... Bangkok and Shantou which is also why there are at least two Teochew speaking air hostesses on board each China Southern flight between Shantou and Bangkok. Shantou people share the same culture with other Teochew people and the tea-drinking ...
going home
... your last meals. your last time checking out. and hopefully your last time with food poisoning in china. checked out from our beautiful 5 star hotel. wandered around shantou, looking for good food. found it at a street vendor that served good noodles. ...
Queshi Scenic Area & This N That Soup
This is a top pick! ... Hey and a Big G'Day toya, Wha was the name of that Motorhead album? That's right.....Another Perfect Day! Connecting to Shantou across the Queshi Bridge is Queshi town which has been known by the local people throughout the 19th century as Kakchio and ...
welcome to my country
... sugarcane fields, bananas fields and countless other tropical plants. - eating one of the best meals i've had in china at the stopover an hour away outside of shantou. it was braised duck (at least i hope it was since geese is a famous dish in this ...
Reality: A Child's Joy or a Beggar's Despair
... Then a large number of us (more of San's family) took 3 cars and drove a while to go to some smaller villages near Shantou where San's relatives used to live. Some of them still lived around there. One of them served me some food which I finished ...
The Gospel Restricted
We went to dinner with almost twenty people last night. San's family and a couple of Beibei's family came. I had a couple meatball things, tried a fishball (couldn't finish it), ate chicken, pork, corn thing made into a "pizza" that was sweet ...
Live by the sea...EAT the sea.
This morning we left Guangzhou around 9:30 for Shantou. We took two cars. Matthew (who was with us in Beijing and Shanghai) drove me, Beibei, and Beibei's grandparents. Jason drove San, Sineerat, and the two people of San's family that ...
Women work and relationships
Recently I've seen a couple of stuff about the changing place of women in Chinese society. Most interesting were the essays my students wrote. I found the quiet girls were the ones with the most revolutionary attitudes! They wanted to not stop ...
Yes life is back to normal - buffeted by the winds
... levels (feels like) grr. Went to get new glasses and continue with books palava. Saturday night? Formal party at Shantou Uni for English speakers. Turned into fantastic party complete with requiste bitch-fight, security guards saying to turn ...
Shantou, China's Farewell
... on Expedia which included a 12 hour overnight layover. We thought, fine, we can sleep. Well apparently Shantou wanted to remind me that China hates me and has nothing but resentment for me as, we found out, the airport closes at night, is not ...
Many worlds, one world
On Thur night had a surreal trip out looking for kid I meet on street often. I finally discovered the other half of Shantou. Fri was a trip to orphanage, just to compound it. Any tips welcome. ...
Trip to Shantou
... a local island, but after a long ferry ride and many locals trying to rip us off, we got back on the ferry and went back to Shantou. It is nice to have a city like this so close to us (1 1/2 hours) where we can go and find some western things ...
A Few Tips For Your Dreamed Wedding
Are you hesitating what kind of wedding suits you mostly, how about a beach themed wedding, wearing your destination wedding dresses for your big day? Beach theme invitations, beach wedding dresses, locations, flowers, photography, and beach themed ...
David and Elizabeth have left
Where have I been this week. Some ex-teachers came back from travelling before leaving China, these past couple of days. An American couple called David and Elizabeth. I'm really sad that they've left! Well this necessitated going out a lot to enjoy ...
Village is not the right word
The ride was strange. Speeding down the highway constructed by Lee Ka Sing and the Chinese government. The sight of vegetable fields on the side of this giant thoroughfare confounded me, just as much as the rolling hills in the background. I ...
Life update
... is blog is actually a rough copy of myshantou.net, an English-language blog I have to help people find interesting things in Shantou. Had a manic weekend. I think my life is getting back to normal after broken foot. It started on Friday. I was ...
Going to ZO<¬... (Three gorges)
Had borrowed some cats and gave them back but they left me with fleas which is annoying, and itchy. Hopefully my cleaner will have killed them off by the time I get back from... San Xia! The three gorges? As there are almost no gorges any more my May ...
Church!
I went to church. Twice in one week. There are big churches in Shantou, 1 Catholic and 3 protestant that I know of. There's also one of each in Chaozhou. It's a popular religion. The people were nice - the usual church kind of people. They really ...
Steve and Debbie's Excellent Adventure
We arrived after a short flight from Guangzhou. We encountered our first taste of Chinese pastries. We were served sweet rolls with custard in them with a juice box of tea. We had a driver waiting to pick us up from the airport holding a sign that read, ...
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