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Guangzhou Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Guangzhou, China
Bus to Nanning
What a nightmare! Millions of people trying to get home for NY celebrations, everything booked out and here I am trying to get on anything moving west. Nobody speaks English, everything from train schedules to road signs is written in Mandarin only, and ...
Sigma Pi reunion...on the other side of the world!
A buddy and fraternity brother from college let me know last week that he was going to be coming to Guangzhou this week. He works for iRobot and was visiting their manufacturer over here. He was staying in a hotel about an hour away from the White Swan, ...
Cap.14 Cuando el tiempo se para
... pétalos de rosa, aromas diferentes etc. El tiempo corre y no te das ni cuenta. Te sientas en una tumbona y viene una agradable china para colocarte pepino fresco por toda la cara. Siempre había visto lo del pepino en la tele y me parecía una estupidez ...
Christian Holiday in an Atheist Country
... that the Chinese have a problem with it also). We did go the other day to the Division of Exit and Entry Administration of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau to try to get Jacqui's visa extended. She could only get a 30-day, single entry tourist visa. ...
China proper
Well, here we are - in China. Guangzhou is a seething mass of bodies from what I can tell so far, apart from a little semi-island to the south called Shamian, where we have spent most of today to get away from the grotty city centre. Not really that ...
好久不见！Long time
... . This was due to the internet being unavailable until earlier today. It's now about a month since I arrived in Guangzhou, so getting internet access in China is about as slow here as it is in England.But please don't think that I haven't been busy, I ...
Mainland China here i am
So i have travelled to guangzhou today and got through customs etc without a problem. Found a room in a hostel (where i am writing this) but this is where the travelling has truly begun. Everywhere you get stared at, nothing is in english and nobody ...
Guangzhou, April 15, 2006 - Saturday
... is one thing and reality, or subjective experience of reality quite another. Everyone knows that. But what I was seeing now indicated that China was becoming very open. And very modern in many segments, as well. It was enough just to see new, modern ...
Transport
... 'k. Vlak měl nakonec k původním dvou hodinám cesty zpoždění asi půl hodiny. Na nádraží v Guangzhou nás čekala vstupní prohlídka při vstupu na území Číny. Po zkoumání formalit nás naskenovali do ...
Canton
... leave and we jumped on our train for a short hour and three quarters and no problems at customs. We are now officially in China - Guangzhou which is part of Guangdong province. Our first impressions are that there are a hell of a lot of people here - ...
Cap. 2 Adiós a todos.
Son las seis y media de la mañana y ha amanecido en Guangzhou. Todavía con los efectos secundarios que produce un viaje de 23 horas, y siete de cambio horario. En hora y media me pongo en marcha para ir a la oficina de mi nuevo trabajo. Pero antes de ...
Cap. 3 Welcome to China de nuevo
... ; Al final llegué después de un largo viaje. Eran las ocho de la tarde cuando salía de la terminal del aeropuerto de Guangzhou. Por fin volvía a respirar ese aire, y ver esa pesada niebla permanente. Se me había olvidado el olor que tiene China; A ...
Return to Goat Town
... headed off to the East train station. We had looked up trains and we saw that there were two trains that leaves Guangzhou around 6:00. We decided to try for those trains because the likelihood of us getting a sleeper would be higher because ...
Visit to Guangzhou
... Academy was really neat. The site is well maintained and the carvings are just lovely. Here is a quote I found on a Guangzhou tourism site describing the Academy: In the late of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a man named Chen got the third ...
Ikea Sunday!
Sunday afternoon as I was strolling through Guangzhou, I noticed a big (OK, everything here is big), Ikea. This Ikea was one on the funniest, laugh out loud, days I had in China. It will be a 'forever memory' for me. As soon as I entered ...
Off to the land of milk and eggrolls again
Ok, so this trip I'm traveling by myself to Guangzhou. It's kind of intimidating considering I've never really traveled by myself before. I think this is the point in my life that I discovered that I really do have a passion for traveling ...
The Great Escape
... bunks playing cards, although what game they were playing is anyones guess as they used 2-3 packs of cards at a time. We arrived in Guangzhou the next day at approximately 5:30 in the evening, we made a short walk to the nearby bus station which had no ...
De sidste dage i Guangzhou: 2.-5. januar
... man kan få næsten alt og spise ubegrænset. Den viser sig at være en restaurantkæde, og den er lige så fantastisk i Guangzhou som i Beijing. Vi spiste sushi, sashimi og alt muligt andet, til vi var ved at revne. Vi tog derefter i byen og havde en ...
Guangzhou
... everything. Crispy pork belly, chicken wings stuffed with prawns, lamb cutlets, with mashed potato, and steamed veges. All delicious. Guangzhou is beautiful. There are so many gardens around here, and so beautifully manicured. Also, because the weather is ...
I Know Where Underpants Come From
... or the vastness, or the smells or the ambience and I find myself coming up short for the truly remarkable. Guangzhou – shopping – unable to describe the quantity of products available. Just to give one example. ...
HAPPY NEW YEARS FROM CHINA!!!!
I think the title says it all. We spent New Year's Eve at the Italian restaurant on Shamian Island. It's called La Dolce Vita...or "The Sweet Life", and I've gotta say...this next year is shaping up to be that way. Starting in January 15th, I'm going ...
Real China and Macua
... otherwise he'd have blown our budget that night - we know he's not the best gambler! From Hong Kong we went into 'real' China to the province of Canton, and to the city of Canton (prounced locally as Guanghzou and no longer Canton). This is where the ...
And now, for something completely different...
... 't normally want to pay this price, but we'll need to take this train for any chance of catching today's 5:30pm train from GuangZhou to Guilin. To complicate matters, the clerk tells us that the train to Guilin leaves from the old train station but all ...
Cap. 12 Cantón, patio de recreo para arquitectos
... envió a sus tropas al sur para hacerse con el control del litoral. Conocida en occidente como Cantón, Guangzhou es la tercera ciudad más grande de China con una población de más de trece millones de personas por detrás de Shanghai y Pekín. ...
Day 11
Hi-Heard it's snowing in Boston! Let's all hope for a white Christmas. It's about 80 degrees here and really wonderful. Today we took Maillie to the photo shed for her Visa photo and then over to the Adoption Medical Clinic for a look see by the ...
