Shenzhen China
Travel Blogs from Shenzhen China, China
Bus Station and Miscommunication
... to see if we could access everything we usually use like travelpod, hotmail, google, and of course facebook because we have heard China blocks some sites. Sadly we found out facebook is blocked, so no updates and checking up on friends for us this month. ...
Breast is best - and good for making money too!
... employed by a local family in Shenzhen, Guangzhou Daily reported. In addition to breast-feeding the baby, Xia, who comes from East China's Jiangxi Province, will also help to take care of it and cook for the family. Xia, herself the mother of a ...
Shenzhen by night
... to get from the airport to the border with Hong Kong, or how many minutes from Luohu railway station on the China side out to Shenzhen's airport, located some distance from the sprawl of high-rise buildings and motorways. It didn't help that my flight ...
Border Crossing
... to explain to the border official where Yangshuo was (I should have just put Beijing or something on the arrival slip) I stepped into China and into a world far removed from what I was used to even though it was only a short distance from the highly ...
Nipping across the border for a bit of shopping
... request cosmetics and perfumes and brand clothing (kinda funny when you can get genuine knockoffs for cheaper in China). So the other day I was at the Shenzhen=Hong Kong Lo Wu border just before 6.30am and all around me were people with rolley ...
CHINA!
... past weekend. I attended a weekend workshop at Shekou International School in the Shen Zhen district of the People's Republic of China. And since I was attending a teacher workshop while I was there, my school paid for the entire trip! Ha! Take ...
My Birthday
Officially i celebrated my birthday the weekend before when we had a housewarming party in our new flat, then went out to True Colour club on a Dom mission and danced the night away until i collapsed in a chinese wedding bed and had to be taken ...
Train to Hong Kong
... - there are many western businesses that are not big enough to set up a Chinese office but need a way to get into China - he facilitates this) and a couple of Chinese students. The train supposedly had aircon, but maybe due to the number of the people on ...
The nice Doctor in Schenzhen
We were invited to the home of Chi to see how a Chinese family lives. He and his wife took us out for dim ...
China is the world as we know it in reverse...
Well basically, think about the way you would normally go about doing something, then reverse it and that's basically China. Down to the smallest things - on the tv the lower button turns the volume up etc. Today in the supermarket there was a chart ...
Chezaaaaaan
... . Today we spent the day looking at various art and design galleries which were really intereseting, getting our last china desaign fix before entering vietnaam. Fi, feeling a bit fragile from the night before headed off to bed for an early ...
Onto Shenzhen!
... up and had to pack up all our bags to move along to mainland China! We took a train from East Tsim Sha Tsui to Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen to China is like Tijuana to California. It is right on the border, and we had to pass through customs and ...
Najbogatejše kitajsko mesto
Hostel, ki sva ga imela rezerviranega je bil prava štala, kot da ga nebi skoraj nikoli čistili. Ogrevanja ni bilo, tako da sva bila vesela, da sva dva. Uspelo se nama je celo stuširati. No ja, skratka, stvar za pozabiti. ...
‘Happy mid-Autumn festival!…’
... closes the curtains for me. I can’t do anything! Anyway, so tomorrow we’re going to the shopping mall in Shenzhen, well, one of. Wednesday 22nd This morning I’m up at 6, seems my body clock is set well to work already. We ...
Journey to Bangkok , Part 1
... 3 cities. We took the train to Shanghai again because flights from there are cheaper/more common than from Nanjing. We flew to Shenzhen which is the closest Chinese mainland city to Hong Kong. Nothing great happened there, we just took a cab to the ferry ...
Clearing Customs
... pricy international taxes, we took a bus from the airport (it is on it's own man-made island) just across the botrder to China. Customs was very confusing. We had to get off two seperate places and face the sneering glare of a custom's agent ...
The Only Stamps I Collect Are In My Passport
... nbsp;a little hectic catching up with school and I got called to be an MC for the Hall Choir Concert. Currently, I'm in Shenzhen, China! Yesterday morning and early afternoon, the ITC program had a factory visit to Coats Zipper and Thread company...which ...
Travel to Shenzhen in 2006
... was my first travel to Shenzhen in Oct 2006. Many nice places to see like : Shenzhen Museum, Window of the world, Window of China, Traditional and business market, etc. Lots of people everywhere, nice food and things are ...
Entering China
... other end to make sure our bags didn't go astray. But we got through without losing anything, and we were in China. The Shenzhen metro is shiny new and very impressive. The vending machines have an English option, and have a touch screen map ...
travel
=Shenzhen, China= *we only stayed here for 1 day (aw.) *but we visited a lot of cool places the whole day *Windows of the world *tea house (i forgot the name of the place coz its chinese.. damn!) *fancy restaurants (i also forgot the ...
Geek Heaven
... at its ease of operation, its power and accessibility to software. But this is a travel bog not a tech review. I slept well and awoke in the morning refreshed and wanting to see more of Shenzhen time for more adventure . . . . . . . . . . ...
Enquanto isso, no alerta preto para tufao
Ultimamente temos enfrentado chuvas bem fortes por aqui. Estou aqui vendo a TV local e na parte esquerda da tela aparecem tres quadrinhos, o azul, o vermelho e o preto que sao usados como alerta para as tempestades/tufoes, pois bem , nesse momento esta ...
Is Shenzhen 'Real' China ?
... look, just stamped my passport and pointed to behind him. So, now I was in no mans land, the bit between Hong Kong, China and Shenzhen, China. I walked over the bridge connecting the two countries, I had read that i needed to look for a sign marked 'Visa' ...
Um pouco de cultura - Shenzhen
... 'n) eh uma cidade de 4.670.000 habitantes localizada ao sul da provincia de Guangdong, na República Popular da China. Eh a capital do municipio de Shenzhen que conta com uma populacao 8.277.500 habitantes. O nome da cidade tem origem na denominacao dada ...
Entering China
... . Therefore HongKong was my best option. Anyways, with both my Vietnam and Chinese visas sorted I decided to enter the big country of china. I'm not planning to spend much time here, I just want to get a glimps of it and then move on to Vietnam where ...
Travel to Shenzhen 2007
... translation. Fortunately I met a good gentleman and kindly let me know the meaning in english ... so that I could fill it out. But I still feel strange why in such a big airport like Shenzhen does not have an immigration form in english version ...

