Shenzhen, China Travel Blogs

Breast is best - and good for making money too!
Sep 23, 2008

... woman surnamed Xia has recently become the first wet nurse in Guangdong Province after she was 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, ...

Shenzhen by night
Jan 12, 2008

... 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 was ...

Nipping across the border for a bit of shopping
Sep 21, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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 trolleys - all ...

My Birthday
Feb 14, 2006

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 home... ...

Choose best gifts for pregnant woman
Sep 11, 2009

... 8220;All our hopes and dreams now carried on butterfly wings.” Add the child’s name or birth date for a truly unique plate that will be cherished forever. If you want to find electronic things from China, you can click: http://www.utsource.net

The nice Doctor in Schenzhen
Oct 31, 2008 (5 photos)

We were invited to the home of Chi to see how a Chinese family lives. He and his wife took us out for dim sum.

China is the world as we know it in reverse...
Feb 28, 2006

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 with ...

Onto Shenzhen!
Aug 13, 2009

... 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 ...

Shenzhen
Sep 5, 2006 (10 photos)

Second stop: Shenzhen

Steel jewery -a new fashion
Mar 17, 2009

... can design your own titanium ring and to select matching titanium wedding rings.  Titanium rings are very popular. Currently, China provided  with over 60% of our titanium jewelry to customers in the United States and have hundreds of happy ...

Shenzhen
Apr 12, 2006

Crossing the border to the mainland and taking train to Guilin

Shenzhen - "our living hell" (Hehehe)
Jan 9, 2009

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Meeting Mike & Wang Xin
Oct 30, 2009 (2 photos)

We flew to Shenzhen from Guilin (1 hour) and stayed one night to visit a friend of mine from Hughes Aircraft days. We had not seen each other in over 10 years, but he was just the same, except completely fluent in Chinese!  He's been in China for 7 ...

Language barriers
May 14, 2008 (3 photos)

... because I had Carmen and Chiu`s instructions written in Chinese.  I actually managed to get to the main shopping area in Shenzhen without speaking, I just showed people the name of where I wanted to go and the rest was sign language.  So I went ...

Have you ever heard of Yi-Lian
Nov 16, 2006

You know the drill by now

Shenzhen
Sep 5, 2007

Shenzhen

travel
Apr 1, 2008

=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 name  ...

Enquanto isso, no alerta preto para tufao
Jun 25, 2008 (9 photos)

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 no ...

Um pouco de cultura - Shenzhen
Jun 24, 2008 (43 photos)

... 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 pelos ...

Entering China
Mar 26, 2008 (15 photos)

... language. In Hong Kong almost everything is signed or adverised in english, similarly most people speak quite good english. In Shenzhen hardly anyone that I've spoken to speaks any english or very little. However this doesn't stop people from talking ...

Shenzhen
Mar 20, 2009

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Getting a Life
Nov 6, 2006

... adjust.  I could get up on my high horse and demand my personal freedom and rights as an individual, but this is China.  It is, despite what many Chinese will tell you to the contrary, a collectivist culture.  Therein lies the quandary.  ...

Cracking Down
Sep 15, 2007

... , it seems, an Olympic security conference taking place to address "issues", not least the almost unrestricted movement of foreigners across China's non-airport borders such as those in Guangdong.  The following week, I meet some Africans who'd been ...

Swimming in Characters
Oct 2, 2007

I keep waking up in the small hours of the night with Chinese characters swimming before my eyes. Learning to read and, if necessary, write the Chinese language are one of the objectives of my study, but at the moment I feel like it's making me ill! ...

The suits are out
Dec 10, 2006

Everybody is wearing suits!  Or rather, men everywhere you look seem to have started wearing suits of all shapes, sizes and colours.  Granted not all these cuts of cloth are of the highest, most elegant order, and frequently a second glance ...

The realities of life through the bus window
May 29, 2007

... out of 15.  They weren't shouting about it, but in their young, yet lined faces it showed.   Downtown Shenzhen is modern, luxurious, with some world-class infrastructure and spectacular architecture.  It's easy to think of the place as a ...

A Crazy Year Comes Home to Roost
Jun 15, 2007

Well, the shenanigans of recent weeks have well and truly came home to roost.  At the risk of mixing metaphors it looks like yours truly is going to have a busy weekend picking the bones of out the carefully constructed, booby-trap of a crash site ...

When marrying a foreigner kicks in
Jan 28, 2008

... not getting it which sticks in the throat. She's married a foreigner, so now she is going to be treated as one in China.   I tried to imagine how I'd feel if it happened to me in the UK, and I can only imagine disillusionment and alienation. After ...

A lot of smart people
Feb 28, 2007

This nation is one of the fastest growing economies on the planet.  It is the biggest population. It is scaring the living daylights out of a lot of other nations.  It is a land full of opportunity and optimism.  The scale of the place is ...

Cantonese Seafood
May 20, 2007

... up and whisked to the kitchen.  The roadway was teeming with people - busy even by the standards of Southern China - and made for fascinating spectating whilst tucking into delicious scallops, crayfish, shrimps and something I can't even identify in ...